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Managing integration in bio-energy chains by promoting a collective action
, 2014 This paper discusses how to develop and manage integration, coordination and cooperation (collective action) in bio-energy supply chains. Farmers decision on whether or not to participate in a contract farming scheme have been investigated, particularly assessing the trade-offs between the contract attributes and their impact on the likelihood to ...
Luigi Cembalo +3 more
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Energy and BuildingsHeating and hot water usage account for nearly 80% of household energy consumption in the European Union. In order to reach the EU New Deal goals, new policies to reduce heat energy consumption are indispensable. However, research targeting reductions concentrates either on technical building interventions without considerations of people's behavior ...
Mona Bielig +7 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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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
Social Sciences, 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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Who participates in and drives collective action initiatives for a low carbon energy transition
, 2020 Broad acceptance by and support from the society for the sustainable energy transition is indispensable. Public participation and ownership - in particular through collective action initiatives - is seen as a means to foster this support. Starting with the origin of the cooperative model, we present how it has been evolving until today. We then discuss
August Wierling +5 more
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The Epistemic Distances in the Sustainable Energy Transmission Process
Fuori Luogo, 2023 To face the COVID-19 socio-economic crisis, the European Union defined the Next Generation EU plan, a relevant investment fund addressed for clean and smart recovery actions to a more stable, wealthy and sustainable EU society.
Ilaria Marotta +2 more
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Land, 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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