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Designing transition paths for the diffusion of sustainable system innovations. A new potential role for design in transition management? [PDF]

, 2008
Copyright @ 2008 Umberto AllemandiIt is a shared opinion that the transition towards sustainability will be a continuous and articulated learning process, which will require radical changes on multiple levels (social, cultural, institutional and ...
Kemp, R, Vezzoli, C, Ceschin, F
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Distributing Power : a Transition to a Civic Energy Future [PDF]

, 2015
The overarching challenge for UK energy policy is to ensure the delivery of secure, affordable energy in a way that meets the emission reductions targets laid out in the Climate Change Act (2008).
Realising Transition Pathways Engine Room, Emanuel-Yusuf, Damie, Robertson, Elizabeth, Hall, Stephan, Longhurst, Noel, Barton, John, O’Grady, Áine, Robinson, Elaine, Sherry-Brennan, Fionnguala, Johnson, Victoria   +9 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, Abhilash Kantamneni, Ian McVey   +2 more
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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, Gerald G. Singh, Richard S. Cottrell, Richard S. Cottrell, Richard S. Cottrell, Tyler D. Eddy, Andrés Miguel Cisneros-Montemayor, Andrés Miguel Cisneros-Montemayor   +7 more
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Copper as a Critical Resource in the Energy Transition

Energies
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, Anna Wiktor-Sułkowska, Arkadiusz Kustra, Sylwia Lorenc-Szot   +3 more
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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, Ábel Magyari, Marina Kristina Braun, Kitti Párdi, András Reith   +4 more
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MEL4JT – South Africa’s emerging monitoring, evaluation and learning ecosystem around a socially just transition to a stabilising climate

African Evaluation Journal
Background: The world is facing a polycrisis of climate and ecosystems breakdown, extreme inequality and social injustice. The South African government and social partners are focusing on the crisis through a national Just Transition Framework ...
Cara H. Hartley, Ian Goldman, Samuel Mabena, Yuri Ramkissoon, Jongikhaya Witi, Christel Jacob   +5 more
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Moving enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to the cloud: the challenge of infrastructural embeddedness

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, Vegard Uri Sørheller, Emeli Høvik Jørgensen, Polyxeni Vassilakopoulou   +3 more
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The Politics of Reflexive Governance: Challenges for Designing Adaptive Management and Transition Management

Ecology 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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Governance Arrangements for the Scaling Up of Small-Scale Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Systems – Lessons From India

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, Philippe Reymond, Rohit Chandragiri, Lukas Ulrich   +3 more
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