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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 ...
Arrobbio, Osman +13 more
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Nested Urban Scales: A Pervasive Geogame Model for Collective Energy Efficiency and Action
Urban PlanningAs global energy demand continues to rise, energy efficiency remains one of the most cost‐effective strategies for managing consumption, and behavioral energy efficiency (BEE) plays a crucial role in reducing energy use in buildings.
Malini Srivastava, Mariangel Meza
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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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A Characterization of European Collective Action Initiatives and Their Role as Enablers of Citizens’ Participation in the Energy Transition [PDF]
Energies, 2021 This paper provides novel additional evidence on the characteristics of Collective Action Initiatives (CAIs), investigating their role within the European energy sector. It analyses and presents results of a survey administered in six European countries: the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Poland, Estonia, and Spain.
Veronica Lupi +13 more
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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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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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FACETS, 2022 The first draft of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) includes an unprecedented call for states that have ratified the treaty (Parties) to implement measures to maintain and enhance ...
Christopher J. Lemieux +8 more
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Tachyon condensation and universality of DBI action [PDF]
, 2000 We show that a low-energy action for massless fluctuations around a tachyonic soliton background representing a codimension one D-brane coincides with the Dirac-Born-Infeld action.
Arutyunov, G. +3 more
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Co-construcciones de redes energéticas. Acciones colectivas territoriales en Argentina, siglo XXI
Confins, 2018 Collective actions are taken to overcome problems or to face up to energy challenges. In the interaction of actors involved, energy projects advance.
Silvina Carrizo, Guillermina Jacinto
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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 ...
Maria Isabel Abreu +2 more
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