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Towards a Political Economy of Renewable Energy: Does Democracy and Globalization Matter for Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs)

open access: yesProblemy Ekorozwoju, 2023
Renewable energy policy is one of the remarkable parts of the sustainable development path. However, the political-economic dimension of renewable energy policies is not so much widely discussed.
Orhan Cengiz, Müge Manga
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Examination of the New Tech Model as a Holistic Democracy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Using the Degrees of Democracy Framework (Woods & Woods, 2012), we examined eight New Tech (NT) high schools to determine the extent to which they demonstrated characteristics of holistic democracy.
Mosier, Gina   +1 more
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Refocusing the Agenda of Public Education: District Mission Statements and the Manners of Democracy as a Way of Life [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Mission statements and public statements of values are widely recognized as important for educational improvement, even if often ignored. The mission statements and supporting documents of Utah\u27s 41 school districts were analyzed to locate prominent ...
Bullough, Robert V
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Mindfulness, Democracy, and Education [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In this article, we explain how mindfulness can enhance a democratic way of being, connecting practices of awareness, reflection, dialog, and action to democratic citizenship and social arrangements.
LaPrad, James G, Hyde, Andrea Marie
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Shared Yet Contested: Energy Democracy Counter-Narratives

open access: yesFrontiers in Communication, 2018
Conventional ways of communicating about the transition to renewable energy in North America presuppose that energy systems can be changed while sustaining existing social, political, and economic relations.
Matthew J. Burke
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Decarbonizing residential buildings with heat pumps: Transferability of front-runner experiences from Swiss Cantons

open access: yesEnergy Reports, 2022
The replacement of fossil-fuelled heating systems with systems using renewable energy sources is a central energy and climate policy concern and one of the prerequisites for reducing CO2 emissions to a climate-friendly level.
Stefano Cozza   +4 more
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European Cities in the Energy Transition: A Preliminary Analysis of 27 Cities

open access: yesEnergies, 2020
Nowadays, there is a wide scientific consensus about the unsustainability of the current energy system and at the same time, social awareness about climate change and the IPCC’s goals is increasing in Europe.
Estitxu Villamor   +6 more
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Energy Democracy and Energy Transition in Taiwan

open access: yes, 2022
AbstractThe issue of post-carbon energy transition has received growing attention worldwide for several decades. Being one of the top 20 CO2 emitters in the world, Taiwan embarked on energy transitions in 2016 as a key strategy to address the climate change issue as well as to enhance its energy security.
Tze-Luen Lin, Fang-Ting Cheng
openaire   +1 more source

Researching Holistic Democracy in Schools. A Reponse to Examination of the New Tech Model as a holistic Democracy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Bradley-Levine reported in her article how she created an opportunity to explore research data with the aim of examining the degree to which New Tech schools were democratic in the sense conceptualized by the notion of holistic democracy.
Woods, Philip A
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Energy Democracies and Publics in the Making: A Relational Agenda for Research and Practice

open access: yesFrontiers in Communication, 2018
Mainstream approaches to energy democracy and public engagement with energy transitions tend to adopt specific, pre-given meanings of both “democracy” and “publics.” Different approaches impose prescriptive assumptions about the model of participation ...
Jason Chilvers, Helen Pallett
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