Lee Stapleton
Research Fellow (The Sussex Energy Group)

Selected publications

Article

Stapleton, Lee, Sorrell, Steve and Schwanen, Tim (2017) Peak car and increasing rebound: a closer look at car travel trends in Great Britain. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 53. pp. 217-233. ISSN 1361-9209

Stapleton, Lee, Sorrell, Steven and Schwanen, Tim (2016) Estimating direct rebound effects for personal automotive travel in Great Britain. Energy Economics, 54. pp. 313-325. ISSN 0140-9883

Church, A, Mitchell, R, Ravenscroft, N and Stapleton, L M (2015) ‘Growing your own’: a multi-level modelling approach to understanding personal food growing trends and motivations in Europe. Ecological Economics, 110. pp. 71-80. ISSN 0921-8009

Stapleton, L M, Hanna, P, Ravenscroft, N and Church, A (2014) A flexible ecosystem services proto-typology based on public opinion. Ecological Economics, 106. pp. 83-90. ISSN 0921-8009

Sorrell, Steven, Lehtonen, Markku, Stapleton, Lee, Pujol, Javier and Champion, Toby (2012) Decoupling of road freight energy use from economic growth in the United Kingdom. Energy Policy, 41. pp. 84-97. ISSN 0301-4215

Sorrell, Steve, Lehtonen, Markku, Stapleton, Lee, Pujol, Javier and Champion, Toby (2009) Decomposing road freight energy use in the United Kingdom. Energy Policy, 37 (8). pp. 3115-3129.

Olsson, Johanna Alkan, Bockstaller, Christian, Stapleton, Lee M, Ewert, Frank and et al, (2009) A goal oriented indicator framework to support integrated assessment of new policies for agri-environmental systems. Environmental Science and Policy, 12 (5). pp. 562-572. ISSN 1462-9011

Stapleton, Lee M and Garrod, Guy D (2008) The Commitment to Development Index: An Information Theory approach. Ecological Economics, 66 (2-3). pp. 461-467. ISSN 0921-8009

Stapleton, Lee M and Garrod, Guy D (2008) Do we ecologically model what we economically value? Ecological Economics, 65 (3). pp. 531-537. ISSN 0921-8009

Stapleton, Lee M and Garrod, Guy D (2008) Policy preceding possibility? Examining headline composite sustainability indicators in the United Kingdom. Social Indicators Research, 87 (3). pp. 495-502. ISSN 0303-8300

Stapleton, Lee M and Garrod, Guy D (2007) Keeping things simple: why the Human Development Index should not diverge from its equal weights assumption. Social Indicators Research, 84 (2). pp. 179-188. ISSN 0303-8300

Stapleton, L M, Laybourn-Parry, J, Poulton, P R, Tye, A M, West, H M, Young, S D and Crout, N M J (2006) Parsimonious modelling of nutrient fluxes for a terrestrial ecosystem on Svalbard. Biogeochemistry, 80 (1). pp. 57-69. ISSN 0168-2563

Stapleton, L M, Crout, N M J, Säwström, C, Marshall, W A, Poulton, P R, Tye, A M and Laybourn-Parry, J (2005) Microbial carbon dynamics in nitrogen amended Arctic tundra soil: measurement and model testing. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 37. pp. 2088-2098. ISSN 0038-0717

Tye, A M, Young, S D, Crout, N M J, West, H M, Stapleton, L M, Poulton, P R and Laybourn-Parry, J (2005) The fate of 15N added to high Arctic tundra to mimic increased inputs of atmospheric nitrogen released from a melting snowpack. Global Change Biology, 11 (10). pp. 1640-1654. ISSN 1354-1013

Stapleton, Lee M, Young, Scott D and Crout, Neil M J (2004) Have missing markets for ecological goods and services affected modelling of terrestrial C and N fluxes? Ecological Modelling, 179 (4). pp. 569-574. ISSN 0304-3800

Book Section

Church, Andrew, Fish, Rob, Ravenscroft, Neil and Stapleton, Lee (2015) Cultural ecosystem services, water, and aquatic environments. In: Martin-Ortega, Julia, Ferrier, Robert C, Gordon, Iain J and Khan, Shahbaz (eds.) Water Ecosystem Services: A Global Perspective. International Hydrology . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 148-158. ISBN 9781107100374

Turpin, Nadine, Stapleton, Lee, Perret, Eric, Heide, C Martijn van der, Garrod, Guy, Brouwer, Floor, Voltr, Vaclav and Cairol, Dominique (2010) Assessment of multifunctionality and jointness of production. In: Environmental and Agricutural Modelling: Integrated Approaches for Policy Impact Assessment. Springer, pp. 11-36. ISBN 9789048136186

Conference or Workshop Item

Stapleton, Lee, Sorrell, Steven and Schwanen, Tim (2016) Peak car and peak rebound? A closer look at recent trends in car travel in Great Britain. In: 39th International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) Conference, 19-22 June 2016, Bergen, Norway.

Stapleton, Lee, Sorrell, Steven and Schwanen, Tim (2015) Estimating direct rebound effects for personal automotive travel in Great Britain. In: European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ECEEE) Summer Study, 1 - 6 June 2015, Côte d'Azur, France.

Stapleton, Lee, Sorrell, Steven and Schwanen, Tim (2015) Exploring the direct rebound effect: systematic relationships between model robustness and coefficient estimates. In: 11th International Conference on Sustainability, Copenhagen, January 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Stapleton, Lee, Hanna, Paul, Ravenscroft, Neil and Church, Andrew (2014) A flexible ecosystem services proto-typology based on public opinion. In: 7th Annual Ecosystem Services Partnership Conference, September 2014, San Jose, Costa Rica.

Bockstaller, Christian, Stapleton, Lee M, van der Heide, M, Geniaux, Ghislain, Bellon, Stephane, Josien, Etienne, Raley, M and Alkan Olsson, J (2009) From a disaggregated set of indicators to a synthetic, composite assessment of sustainability: paths and pitfalls. In: Integrated Assessment of Agriculture and Sustainable Development (AgSAP) Conference, 10 - 12 March 2009, Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands.

Bezlepkina, I, Verburg, R, van der Heide, M, Stapleton, L, Brouwer, F and Josien, E (2008) Sustainable or not? The roles and limitations of user involvement in setting reference levels for indicators via computerized tools. In: International Conference on Impact Assessment for Land Use Changes, April,2008, Berlin, Germany.

Stapleton, Lee and Garrod, Guy (2007) Composite indices of sustainable development: an Information Theory approach. In: 3rd International Conference on Sustainability, 4-7 January 2007, Chennai, India.

Reports and working papers

Stapleton, Lee (2015) Do academics doubt their own research? Working Paper. SPRU, University of Sussex, Sussex.

Stapleton, Lee, Sorrell, Steven and Schwanen, Tim (2015) Estimating direct rebound effects for personal automotive travel in Great Britain. Working Paper. SPRU, University of Sussex.

Church, Andrew, Fish, Rob, Haines-Young, Roy, Mourato, Susana, Tratalos, Jamie, Stapleton, Lee and Willis, Cheryl (2014) UK national ecosystem assessment follow-on: cultural ecosystem services and indicators. Project Report. UNEP-WCMC, LWEC, UK..

Watson, Jim, Scrase, Ivan and Stapleton, Lee (2010) Transforming the UK Energy System: Policies for the 2020 Renewables Target and Beyond. Unset. A report for Friends of the Earth. SPRU, University of Sussex.

Stapleton, Lee and Harvey, David (2007) Exotic animal diseases: government-industry cost sharing. Project Report. Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs.

Turpin, N, Stapleton, L, Perret, E, Voltr, V, van der Heide, M, Brouwer, F, Johanovská, L and Trantinova, M (2007) Towards indicators of multifunctionality: assessing jointness between commodity and non-commodity outputs. Working Paper. SEAMLESS (A European Union Sixth Framework Project) PD2.3.2, Brussels..

Thesis

Stapleton, Lee (2005) Modelling carbon and nitrogen fluxes for two terrestrial ecosystems on Svalbard. Doctoral thesis (PhD), University of Nottingham.

Other

Stapleton, Lee (2016) Storm Imogen reminds us that there are winners and losers with climate change. Sussex Energy Group, University of Sussex.

Stapleton, Lee (2016) How good is your model? Quantifying quality research. Sussex Energy Group, University of Sussex, Sussex.

Bergman, Noam, Stapleton, Lee and Martiskainen, Mari (2015) Short-sighted Tory energy policies could undo years of effort. The Conversation.

Stapleton, Lee (2015) [Blog] Reflections, rebound, a week in France. Sussex Energy Group, University of Sussex.

Stapleton, Lee (2015) [Blog] The multiple benefits of energy efficiency. Sussex Energy Group, University of Sussex.

Stapleton, Lee (2015) [Blog] Growing your own food: filling some knowledge gaps using European data. Sussex Energy Group, University of Sussex.

Stapleton, Lee and Church, Andrew (2013) Accounting for the value of nature in the UK. Response to Office for National Statistics Consultation, UK.