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Policy Entrepreneurs and Change Strategies: Lessons from Sixteen Case Studies of Water Transitions around the Globe

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2010
This paper focuses on the role of policy entrepreneurs in realizing water policy transitions. The central questions are to what extent have policy entrepreneurs played a role in realizing major change in water policies, who are these policy entrepreneurs,
Sander Meijerink, Dave Huitema
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Wastelands as an opportunity for managing Naples’ sustainable transition

open access: yesEuropean Spatial Research and Policy, 2020
Circular economy offers new visions of how diversely urban spaces could be inhabited and managed. While the generation and management of waste is being treated through innovative practices, disused industrial, rural, and infrastructural areas are ...
Gilda Berruti, Maria Federica Palestino
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Governing the Land-Sea Interface to Achieve Sustainable Coastal Development

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science, 2021
Coastal regions are essential to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) given their importance for human habitation, resource provisioning, employment, and cultural practice. They are also regions where different ecological, disciplinary, and
Gerald G. Singh   +7 more
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Health advantages of transition to batch management system in farrow-to-finish pig herds [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Sow batch management systems have become more popular due to advantages in labour planning, piglet batch sizes, all-in all-out practices and health management. The present study investigated the potential health advantages of 10 selected farrow-to-finish
De Graef, E   +4 more
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The emergence and evolution of community energy planning in Canada: Introduction to a special issue

open access: yesCanadian Planning and Policy, 2021
The push for decarbonization in Canada’s energy system is driving rapid social and technological innovation in the energy sector. Community energy planning is a rapidly evolving social movement and governance innovation that aims to minimize the impacts ...
Kirby Calvert   +2 more
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Energy Modelling as a Trigger for Energy Communities: A Joint Socio-Technical Perspective

open access: yesEnergies, 2020
Mainstreaming energy communities has been one of the main challenges in the low-carbon transition of cities. In this sense, urban building energy modelling (UBEM) has an untapped role in enabling energy communities, as simulations on urban models provide
Viktor Bukovszki   +4 more
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How can we drive sustainability transitions?

open access: yesPolicy Design and Practice, 2022
Sustainability transitions are required to address challenges of climate change, economic development, ecological integrity, and social justice. Driving sustainability transitions is difficult but necessary work.
Michael Mintrom, Briony C. Rogers
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Copper as a Critical Resource in the Energy Transition

open access: yesEnergies
The energy transition requires significant amounts of critical raw materials, with demand projected to continue increasing. Analyses indicate that the supply of these materials will fall short of the requirements for the energy transition plans based on ...
Marta Podobińska-Staniec   +3 more
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Moving enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to the cloud: the challenge of infrastructural embeddedness

open access: yesInternational Journal of Information Systems and Project Management, 2021
Cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions allow organizations to support and coordinate key business processes by leveraging virtualization. Nevertheless, moving ERPs to the cloud is not straightforward, and organizational cloud ERP initiatives
Eli Hustad   +3 more
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The Politics of Reflexive Governance: Challenges for Designing Adaptive Management and Transition Management

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2011
New concepts of governance take account of ambivalence, uncertainty, and distributed power in societal change. They aim for reflexivity regarding the limits of prognostic knowledge and actual control of complex processes of change.
Jan-Peter Voß, Basil Bornemann
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