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Promoting Energy Efficiency: Barriers, Societal Needs and Policies
Frontiers in Energy Research, 2022 The Climate Change urgency requires a swift reduction of energy consumption. One way to achieve this is through increased energy efficiency. Over the past decades, the debate on how to encourage energy efficiency has been guided by the physical–technical–
Nives Della Valle, P. Bertoldi
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G20 Presidency of Indonesia: Collective and Inclusive Agendas for World Development
International Journal of Technology, 2022 The Group of Twenty (G20), comprised of 19 countries and the European Union, is an intergovernmental forum for addressing issues on global economic, financial stability, climate change mitigation, and sustainable development. The collective collaboration
M. Berawi
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Buildings, 2023 Over the past decades, the debate on how to encourage energy efficiency in existing homes has been guided by a technic-economic model that has a strong focus on technologies and cost savings, in which human behavior has been devalued to a narrow ...
M. I. Abreu, A. Pereira, H. Gervásio
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Solar RRL, 2023 Universities as centers for innovation by nature can play a relevant role in serving as education hubs for citizens in energy, promoting individual and collective behavioral changes among community members.
A. B. Cristóbal +6 more
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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
The social science, 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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Knowledge, agency and collective action as barriers to energy-saving behaviour [PDF]
Local Environment, 2015 Energy saving is becoming a rising priority as a response to climate change and fossil fuel depletion in recent years. However, despite energy-related behaviour change being an important part of many environmental education initiatives, “energy literacy” among citizens remains patchy in both the USA and the UK, with evidence of strong positive ...
Cotton, Debby +4 more
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International Conference on Communities and Technologies, 2021 The notion of establishing energy communities where householders collectively participate in using renewable energy is highly topical. In this paper, we interrogate a design vision of sustainable communal energy developed through a techno-solutionist ...
Rikke Hagensby Jensen +4 more
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Sustainability Science, 2022 AbstractThe phrase “local collective action” is increasingly being used to describe how civil society engages with, and acts upon, sustainability transformations. While existing research has framed local collective action as an outcome of creating a shared agenda on a local level, there have been calls for exploring the diversity of ideas, motives, and
Hasanov, Mustafa, Zuidema, Christian
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International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications, 2021 Photovoltaic (PV) modules and solar plants are one of the main drivers towards zero-carbon future. Energy communities that are engaging citizens through collective energy actions can reinforce positive social norms and support the energy transition ...
Nikos Dimitropoulos +6 more
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