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Toward Standardization in CO2 Electrolysis: A Round Robin Study

Advanced Energy Materials, EarlyView.
CO2 electrolysis is a promising green technology for producing fuels and chemicals. To support its real‐world adoption, researchers conducted a collaborative study to identify sources of experimental variability. They found key differences in temperature and pressure control across labs and proposed a standardized testing protocol to improve ...
Dorottya Hursán, Kevinjeorjios Pellumbi, Balázs Endrődi, Angelika A. Samu, Emilia Wessel, Henri Pelzer, Viktor Józó, Jasper Biemolt, Ulf‐Peter Apfel, Thomas Burdyny, Brian Seger, Peter Strasser, Csaba Janáky   +12 more
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Configurations of Digital Participatory Budgeting

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
Participatory budgeting is a democratic innovation increasingly supported by digital platforms. Like any technology, participatory budgeting platforms are not value-free or politically neutral; their design, configuration, and deployment display assumptions and configure participant behaviour.
Victoria Palacin, Samantha McDonald, Pablo Aragón, Matti Nelimarkka   +3 more
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Organic Photoelectrochemical Cells Beyond Performance: Interface and Catalyst Engineering for Durability

Advanced Energy Materials, EarlyView.
Organic photoelectrochemical cells based on π‐conjugated semiconductors offer a versatile platform for solar fuel generation. This review outlines operating principles, device architectures, and key metrics, and highlights advances in p‐ and n‐type photoelectrodes, interfacial engineering, and catalyst integration.
Jaehyeong Kim, Jung Min Ha, Yeonjeong Lee, Seung Won Oh, Wangyeon Lee, Munsu Kwon, Soonyong Lee, Jin Young Kim, Han Young Woo   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Real Money, Real Power: A Report on the First Five Years of the Participatory Budgeting Project [PDF]

, 2014
Participatory budgeting (PB) is a democratic process in which community members directly decide how to spend part of a public budget. It enables taxpayers to work with government to make the budget decisions that affect their lives.

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Synergies in Agricultural Biodiversity Conservation: Decomposing the Interaction Between Nature Parks and Agri‐Environment Schemes

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Understanding how policy instruments with overlapping goals interact is crucial for leveraging their synergies. This study explores the mechanisms for regional nature parks (a form of protected areas that impose no restrictions on agriculture) to enhance the adoption of biodiversity‐conserving agri‐environment schemes (AES) in Switzerland ...
Yanbing Wang, Christian Ritzel, Antonia Kaiser, Gabriele Mack   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Advanced Is Green Participatory Budgeting in Poland and Spain? A Case Study of Gdansk and Barcelona

Journal of Environmental Management and Tourism
This study explores the advancements in Green Participatory Budgeting (GPB) in Poland and Spain, focusing on case studies from Gdansk and Barcelona. GPB integrates participatory budgeting with environmental sustainability, enabling citizens to influence ...
Małgorzata SIEMIONEK-RUSKAŃ, Anna SIEMIONEK-LEPCZYŃSKA   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The ‘Competence’ discourse in education and the struggle or social agency and critical citizenship [PDF]

, 2009
This paper argues for an education for critical citizenship closely connected with a revitalisation of the democratic public sphere and which prepares citizens to contribute to the emergence of a ‘substantive democracy’ (Giroux, 2001). An education for
Mayo, Peter
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Markets Mitigate Land‐Use Competition From Energy Crops and Increase Farm Revenues

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Meeting the US Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge target of 35 billion gal annually by 2050 will require an estimated 380 million–700 million dry tons of agricultural biomass feedstock. This study evaluates the implications of large‐scale biomass production for land use, crop production, and market outcomes under mature market ...
Daniel G. De La Torre Ugarte, Matthew H. Langholtz, Chad M. Hellwinckel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cidadania Digital e Participação Política: O Caso das Petições Online e do Orçamento Participativo [PDF]

Estudos em Comunicação, 2012
The profound changes in the paradigm of contemporary society resulting from the acceleration of globalization and the exponential increase of ICTs, lead us to reflect on the emergence of new participatory public spaces, fundamentally online spaces, that ...
Sónia Sebastião, André Pacheco, Mariana Santos   +2 more
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Participatory Budgeting in the Philippines

Chinese Public Administration Review, 2020
Participatory budgeting has been adopted and adapted by governments around the world. Existing literature points to a variety of desired outcomes from these efforts, but does not clearly distinguish the impacts on individuals, groups, and society.
Aimee L. Franklin, Carol Ebdon
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