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A Blueprint for Ocean Energy Development 2010-2015 [PDF]

open access: yes
In an effort to foster a collaborative approach to advancing the ocean energy industry, OWET convened the OWET 2010 Developersʼ Summit on September 27 and 28, 2010 in Portland, Oregon.
Oregon Wave Energy Trust
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Energy Communities in Urban Areas: Comparison of Energy Strategy and Economic Feasibility in Italy and Spain

open access: yesLand, 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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Knowledge, agency and collective action as barriers to energy-saving behaviour [PDF]

open access: yesLocal 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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Conflicting imaginaries in the energy transition? Nature and renewable energy in Iceland

open access: yesMoravian 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

open access: yesEnergies, 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   +4 more
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Transformational changes for achieving the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework ecological connectivity goals

open access: yesFACETS, 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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Co-construcciones de redes energéticas. Acciones colectivas territoriales en Argentina, siglo XXI

open access: yesConfins, 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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From a Techno-Economic towards a Socio-Technical Approach—A Review of the Influences and Policies on Home Energy Renovations’ Decisions

open access: yesBuildings, 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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Analysing the risks of individual and collective intentionality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The risk assessment of complex systems often seems to neglect the way in which intentions, collective and individual, are central to our explanations of how risk arises in such systems. Contradictions among the intentions of different actors, for example,
Busby, J S, Bennett, S A
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Cognitive model of collective behavior of distributed intelligent multi-agent systems [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences
The 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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