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Collective energy actions to pursue a just transition.

European Journal of Spatial Development
The EU recent energy policies aim to rapidly transition to a sustainable and citizen-centric energy system. However, most regulations do not fully acknowledge the social aspect of the energy transition.
Martina Massari, Saveria Olga Murielle Boulanger, Danila Longo   +2 more
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The Role of Organised Civil Society in the Implementation of the Renewable Energy Transition and Renewable Energy Communities: A Qualitative Assessment

Energies, 2023
The study aims to understand the relationship between organised civil society and the energy transition. It is carried out by using a mixed qualitative method combining a systematic literature review, identifying the role of organised civil society ...
Marco De Nigris, Francesca Giuliano
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Emotional Ambience in Interaction Rituals: A Conceptional Completion to Emotional Energy

Social Sciences, 2023
This article aims to elaborate on Collins’ theory of Interaction Ritual Chains by proposing the concept of emotional ambience as a complement to emotional energy.
Adam Droppe
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The Epistemic Distances in the Sustainable Energy Transmission Process

Fuori Luogo, 2023
To face the COVID-19 socio-economic crisis, the European Union defined the Next Generation EU plan, a relevant investment fund addressed for clean and smart recovery actions to a more stable, wealthy and sustainable EU society.
Ilaria Marotta, Dario Minervini, Ivano Scotti   +2 more
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Energy Communities in Urban Areas: Comparison of Energy Strategy and Economic Feasibility in Italy and Spain

Land, 2023
Energy communities using renewable energy sources directly contributes to reduction of climate change gas emissions and energy consumption in the European Union.
Simona Barbaro, Grazia Napoli
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Social Mpower: An Educational Game for Energy Efficiency [PDF]

, 2016
A number of serious games have been developed for energy systems that act as an educational tool and help energy consumers to better understand concepts such as resource allocation, electricity prices and grid sustainability.
A Bourazeri, B Dietze, DR Michael, E Ostrom, F Sestini, J Kahn, J Martlew, J Pitt, J Pitt, J Pitt, T Marsh   +10 more
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Conflicting imaginaries in the energy transition? Nature and renewable energy in Iceland

Moravian Geographical Reports, 2021
An improved understanding of the geographical unevenness of the global energy transition is important. The concept of ‘sociotechnical imaginaries’ has been used extensively for understanding how desired technology futures are envisioned and ...
Benediktsson Karl
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Physical Constraints on Global Social-Ecological Energy System

Energies, 2021
Energy is the main driver of human Social-Ecological System (SES) dynamics. Collective energy properties of human SES can be described applying the principles of statistical mechanics: (i) energy consumption repartition; (ii) efficiency; (iii ...
Marco Casazza, Francesco Gonella, Gengyuan Liu, Antonio Proto, Renato Passaro   +4 more
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Theorizing Collective Green Actions [PDF]

, 2011
The notion of “green” has gained increasing attention over the years. Many major companies have made significant attempt to better fit into the green concept.
Chen, Wenshin
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Out-of-equilibrium collective oscillation as phonon condensation in a model protein [PDF]

, 2018
In the first part of the present paper (theoretical), the activation of out-of-equilibrium collective oscillations of a macromolecule is described as a classical phonon condensation phenomenon. If a macromolecule is modeled as an open system, that is, it
Donato, Irene, Giliberti, Valeria, Gori, Matteo, Lechelon, Mathias, Meriguet, Yoann, Nardecchia, Ilaria, Nouvel, Philippe, Ortolani, Michele, Pettini, Marco, Preto, Jordane, Sturgis, James, Torres, Jeremie, Varani, Luca   +12 more
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