Collective action lessons for the energy transition: learning from social movements of the past [PDF]
Sustainability ScienceAbstractTo accelerate the energy transition and achieve the needed large-scale transformation to address climate change, different barriers including lock-ins and path dependencies, incumbent power structures and changing individual and collective norms, values, and behaviors around energy need to be addressed. In the face of these challenges, citizens
Vanja Djinlev, BinBin J. Pearce
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Chaotic Itinerancy in Collective Behaviour Emerging from Active Inference: A Multi-Agent Model of Trust and Empowerment Dynamics in Theatre Workshops [PDF]
EntropyChaotic itinerancy—irregular switching among metastable collective states—provides a dynamical substrate for flexible social coordination, yet its mechanistic origin in multi-agent systems remains unclear.
Shoko Miyano, Takashi Shiono
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Ethics of Nuclear Energy in Times of Climate Change: Escaping the Collective Action Problem [PDF]
Philosophy & Technology, 2022 AbstractIn recent years, there has been an intense public debate about whether and, if so, to what extent investments in nuclear energy should be part of strategies to mitigate climate change. Here, we address this question from an ethical perspective, evaluating different strategies of energy system development in terms of three ethical criteria ...
Simon Friederich, Maarten Boudry
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Women’s Collectives and Collective Action for Food and Energy Security: Reflections from a Community of Practice (CoP) Perspective [PDF]
Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 2020 In feminist political ecological discourses, women are seen as potential initiators and actors in collective action. Gendered differential practices in sustaining certain forms of collective action within the community have remained under-researched. Women play a key role as providers of food, water, fuel and fodder.
Sunita Dhal +2 more
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Indigenous peoples and renewable energy: impacts, contestations, and collective action
Environmental Research LettersAbstract Although renewable energy (RE) transitions offer pathways to sustainability, their implementation often exacerbates existing injustices, particularly for Indigenous communities. This paper examines Indigenous peoples’ complex and evolving relationship with RE transitions through a systematic review of 87 peer-reviewed ...
Le Anh Nguyen Long +6 more
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PROMOTING AGRO-ENERGY SUPPLY CHAIN AS A COLLECTIVE ACTION
, 2014 The topic of integration and development of sustainable chains has lately gained much attention in the academia debates. In particular, how to manage integration in the bio-energy chains is discussed. Integration is a process of progressive dependence among different actors willing to coordinate processes of innovation. This dynamic is generated by the
Luigi Cembalo +7 more
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Participatory Modeling Updates Expectations forIndividuals and Groups, Catalyzing BehaviorChange and Collective Action inWater‐Energy‐Food NexusGovernance [PDF]
Earth's Future, 2019 Participatory modeling is a potentially high‐impact approach for catalyzing fundamental sustainability transformations. We test if participation in a group system dynamics modeling exercise increases participants' agency through a novel method to ...
C. Kimmich +6 more
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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 ...
Gabriella Dóci
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Qualitative and Quantitative Impact of the National Regulation on the Business Case for Energy Communities and Collective Actions [PDF]
EnergiesEnergy communities (ECs) have emerged across the EU, with the Clean Energy Package providing the legal foundation for the establishment of energy communities.
Camilla Neumann, Andreas Türk
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Can industries be parties in collective action? Community energy in an Iranian industrial zone [PDF]
Energy Research & Social Science, 2020 Abstract The industrial sector plays a huge role in creating economic growth. While energy is vital for industries to thrive, various factors are undermining the availability of energy including phasing out of fossil fuels, CO2 emission caps and, the large gap between the fast developments of industrial clusters and the energy supply, especially in ...
Sina Eslamizadeh +3 more
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