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Ecology 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
European 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
Frontiers 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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Refinement for Transition Systems with Responses [PDF]
, 2012 Motivated by the response pattern for property specifications and applications within flexible workflow management systems, we report upon an initial study of modal and mixed transition systems in which the must transitions are interpreted as must ...
Andrzej Wąsowski +12 more
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The emergence and evolution of community energy planning in Canada: Introduction to a special issue
Canadian 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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How can we drive sustainability transitions?
Policy 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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Energy Modelling as a Trigger for Energy Communities: A Joint Socio-Technical Perspective
Energies, 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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Copper as a Critical Resource in the Energy Transition
EnergiesThe 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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Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2020 Environmental pollution and increasing water scarcity are key features of the urban landscape of India today. The extension of centralized sewerage networks cannot keep up with city growth, and alternative sanitation systems are needed for citywide ...
Philippe Reymond +3 more
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International 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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