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An approach to targeting cryptocurrency mining loads for energy efficiency enhancement

open access: yesIET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, 2022
In recent years, the mining of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin has attracted much global attention due to the simplicity and high profitability of this business, especially in countries with low electricity rates.
Mehran Hajiaghapour‐Moghimi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Modular Web Portal Approach for Stimulating Home Renovation: Lessons from Local Authority Developments

open access: yesEnergies, 2021
Web portals have the potential to promote sustainable environmental ideas due to the capacity of digital media, such as easy accessibility, openness, and networking. Local authorities (LAs) are responsible for activating carbon savings in homes, and they
Minyoung Kwon, Erwin Mlecnik
doaj   +1 more source

Public preferences for phasing-out fossil fuels in the german building and transport sectors

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Communications, 2023
In most of Europe, the decarbonisation of the building and transport sectors lags behind emission targets. Achieving full decarbonisation requires not only the diffusion of net-zero emission technologies but also the phase-out of technologies that emit ...
Tim Tröndle   +4 more
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Policy Framework for Prefabricated Buildings in Underdeveloped Areas: Enlightenment from the Comparative Analysis of Three Types of Regions in China

open access: yesBuildings, 2023
Prefabricated buildings (PBs) are vigorously promoted for their many advantages. However, obvious regional differences exist in the development of PBs in China, and underdeveloped areas significantly lag behind other areas. Regional “tactics” have a more
Qiuyu Wang   +3 more
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How Media’s factor and governmental factor affected individual’s opinion on haze in China

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Communications, 2023
Understanding the underlying mechanism of individual’s opinion on haze is important to govern public opinion on haze, and the major question of exiting research is that it has not yet explored what factors and how do they affect individual’s opinion on ...
Huan Liu
doaj   +1 more source

Policy Instruments in the Common Agricultural Policy [PDF]

open access: yesWest European Politics, 2010
Policy changes in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) can be explained in terms of the exhaustion and long-term contradictions of policy instruments. Changes in policy instruments have reoriented the policy without any change in formal Treaty goals. The social and economic efficacy of instruments in terms of evidence-based policy analysis was a key ...
openaire   +1 more source

Instrument constituencies and public policy-making: An introduction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
For many years, policy-making has been envisioned as a process in which subsets of policy actors engage in specific types of interactions involved in the definition of policy problems, the articulation of solutions and their matching or enactment.
MUKHERJEE, Ishani   +5 more
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Public inquiries as procedural policy tools

open access: yesPolicy & Society, 2021
In this article we conceptualise the public inquiry as a procedural tool and address the question of what makes a public inquiry an effective policy instrument. The issue of control is central to our arguments. In our conceptual work, we use control as a
Alastair Stark, Sophie Yates
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“We have no politics involved in state subsidies!” Civil servants as political actors within the system of cultural administration.

open access: yesNordisk Kulturpolitisk Tidsskrift, 2023
Our article begins with the presumption that politics can be discerned within the administrative hierarchies of ministries and public agencies. We examine the Finnish state cultural policy administration as a significant organizational structure that ...
Olli Jakonen, Sakarias Sokka
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From “smart regulation” to “regulatory arrangements” [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Instrument choice, Policy learning, Policy instrument, Political modernization, Policy style, Governance capacity,
Arts, Bas   +9 more
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