Unpacking uncertainty in the modelling process for energy policy making

a) School of the Built Environment, University of Reading, UK b) Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, New Jersey USA c) Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT), University of Bergen, Norway d) UCL Energy Institute, University College London, UK e) Open Evidence, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain f) Department of Chemistry, University of Bergen, Norway

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