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Citizen Engagement in EU Collective Action Energy Projects
Sustainability, 2022 Transitioning to a low-carbon economy requires profound changes in the energy system, including digitisation and decentralisation. Collective action energy projects are a promising means of supporting this transformation since they redistribute control of energy resources to the citizens and foster sustainable energy behaviours, as well as potentially ...
Ruth Shortall +2 more
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Collective Action Initiatives as a Tool for a Peaceful Energy Transition
Energies, 2022 In recent years, collective action initiatives in the energy field, such as energy communities and cooperatives, have been gaining relevance both in the policy and in the social research domains as primary actors of energy transition. [...]
Osman Arrobbio +2 more
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Collective Action and Social Innovation in the Energy Sector: A Mobilization Model Perspective [PDF]
Energies, 2020 This conceptual paper applies a mobilization model to Collective Action Initiatives (CAIs) in the energy sector. The goal is to synthesize aspects of sustainable transition theories with social movement theory to gain insights into how CAIs mobilize to bring about niche-regime change in the context of the sustainable energy transition.
Gregg, Jay Sterling +13 more
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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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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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Collective Action with Altruists: How Are Citizens Led Renewable Energy Communities Developed? [PDF]
Sustainability, 2021 Transition to a sustainable future requires not only technical but also societal changes, including changes in behavioral patterns and consumer roles. Renewable energy communities embody such changes: they are mainly residential communities that break with their passive consumer role and produce energy from renewable sources in order to meet primarily ...
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Cognitive model of collective behavior of distributed intelligent multi-agent systems [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesThe goal of this study is to develop a model of collective behavior of intelligent agents based on neurocognitive multi-agent architectures. The consistency of agent behavior is based on a single semantic model that is based on the desire of all agents ...
Pshenokova Inna, Sundukov Zaurbek
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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, Paolo Bertoldi
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Barriers and Drivers of Renewable Energy Penetration in Rural Areas
Energies, 2021 The paper deals with the exposition of the main barriers and drivers of renewable energy usage in rural communities. Climate change mitigation is causing governments, policymakers, and international organizations worldwide to embark on policies, leading ...
Dalia Streimikiene +5 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 This paper presents the results of a qualitative study exploring the role of formal social units in the sustainable energy transition process. A small community in North-east Italy was assumed as case study, in the context of a wider EU-funded research ...
Lorenza Tiberio +5 more
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