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Innovations for Stakeholder Engagement in Water Governance: A Systematic Literature Review From a Sustainability Transition Perspective

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainable and equitable governance of water resources is among the most pressing global challenges, emphasising the need for innovations towards transitions in the water sector. Innovations for stakeholder engagement can contribute to such transitions through public participation and cross‐sectoral collaboration.
Anne Ellermann, Gül Özerol, Joanne Vinke‐de Kruijf, César Casiano Flores, Vuokko Laukka, Ulf Stein, Suvi Sojamo, Rob Collins   +7 more
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Enabling a Circular Water Transition: Identifying Governance Pathways for Wastewater Reuse

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over 80% of the world's wastewater is discharged untreated, making reuse a widely underutilised strategy for addressing water scarcity. Due to the complexity of implementing water reuse systems, supportive governance conditions are required to steer this process and overcome barriers.
Kirsty Holstead, Katrin Pakizer, Nicolas W. Jager, Eva Lieberherr, Manuel Fischer   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sidelining Mitigation: Climate Delay Discourses Among Municipal Legislators in Southeastern Brazil

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how municipal legislators frame climate mitigation and how these framings shift responsibility, narrow the perceived scope of municipal authority, and reduce the urgency or feasibility of local action. We analyzed 31 interviews with city councilors serving on Permanent Environmental Committees across municipalities in ...
Tainá Yumi Patriani
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Licensed Commoning and the Authoritarian Commons: Governing Participation in China's Community Gardens

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT China's environmental governance transition combines intensified vertical accountability and performance‐based management with expanding calls for public participation. However, despite growing demand for civic engagement, there remains limited understanding of how participatory environmental initiatives are structured and governed in practice.
Linjun Xie, Mengqi Shao, Gaohan Deng
wiley   +1 more source

Applying Ragin's Crisp and Fuzzy Set QCA to Large Datasets: Social Class and Educational Achievement in the National Child Development Study [PDF]

The paper explores the use of Charles Ragin's Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) in both its crisp and fuzzy set versions in the study of the relations between social class origin, sex, 'ability' and subsequent educational achievement.
Barry Cooper
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Ambivalence in the Context of Competing Narratives: Exploration Through a Case of the US Military Base Issue in Okinawa

European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The current research focused on how competing narratives (i.e., dominant and resistance narratives) are endorsed among low‐status group members, through the case of the US military base issue in Okinawa, Japan. Specifically, we explored patterns of Okinawans’ narrative endorsement (i.e., dominant and resistance narratives surrounding the ...
Maho Aikawa, Andrew L. Stewart
wiley   +1 more source

Allyship Motives and Their Differential Associations With Identity and Collective Action

European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Across three studies (N = 785) in the context of anti‐racist collective action in the United States and Germany, we empirically validate a theoretical framework of four motives for advantaged group allyship: outgroup‐focused, ingroup‐focused, personal and morality. We investigate the types of identification these motives stem from and how they
Lea Hartwich, Julia C. Becker
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Smart Solar Power Site Selection Through a Hybrid Computational Framework of Neuro‐Fuzzy With Genetic Algorithm Optimization

Energy Science &Engineering, EarlyView.
Solar Power plants at various locations a: Pavagada SPP, Karnataka b: Bhadla SPP, Rajasthan c: West Bengal Solar Park ABSTRACT This paper presents a new neuro‐fuzzy multi‐criteria decision‐making (MCDM) framework designed to optimize the selection of solar power plant (SPP) sites across India.
Rajkumari Malemnganbi Devi, Benjamin A. Shimray, Ingudam Chitrasen Meitei, Khelchandra Thongam, Shuma Adhikari, Anuradha Laishram, Subir Datta, Ahmed Al Mansur, Taha Selim Ustun   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Identifying Faults in Power Transformers Based on Machine‐Learning Algorithms Compared With Other Techniques

Energy Science &Engineering, EarlyView.
General framework of ensemble learning technique for transformer fault diagnostics compared with traditional dissolved gas analysis methods. ABSTRACT This paper implemented a comprehensive variety of modern machine‐learning techniques, which were demonstrated to be effective in handling complex tabular data, generating accurate predictions, and ...
Osama E. Gouda, Nourhan Ramadan, Matti Lehtonen, Mohamed M. F. Darwish   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multi-criteria Decision Making Using Fuzzy Preference Relations

Operations Research and Decisions, 2012
When dealing with multi-criteria decision making problems, the concept of Pareto-optimality and Pareto-dominance may be inefficient (e.g. generally multiple solutions exist), especially when there is a large number of criteria.
Hanna Borzęcka
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