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Refugees and village renewal in Yugoslavia

GeoJournal, 1998
Using statistics collected by UNHCR and the Serbian government, the paper examines aspects of the refugee problem in FR Yugoslavia whose war-affected population amounted to 646 066 persons in 1996 (a figure that is almost certainly an underestimate).
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Renewables for sustainable village power supply

2000 IEEE Power Engineering Society Winter Meeting. Conference Proceedings (Cat. No.00CH37077), 2002
In Mexico there are more than 80000 villages without electricity whatsoever. People living in these communities could reach 6 million inhabitants. The smallness and remoteness of these communities makes them eligible for decentralised remote power technologies such as photovoltaics (PV), thermosolar, wind, micro hydro and biomass.
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Fukushima to build Renewable Energy Village

New Scientist, 2014
Construction has started on a project that will reuse farmland contaminated by nuclear ...
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25 years of village renewal in Poland – the end of the mission or the beginning of village renewal 2.0?

2023
The Opole Village Renewal Program (OPOW), inspired by models from Austria and Germany, marked the beginning of the popularization of village renewal in Poland in 1997. The results of the program and the growing interest in it gave rise to the expectation that village renewal would also determine the development perspective of rural areas in this ...
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Civility and village power: renewable energy and playground politics

Energy for Sustainable Development, 1996
The successful diffusion and adoption of renewable energy systems at the village level is predicated on organizational and institutional issues more than technical ones. The technical characteristics of renewable energy systems require collective social action for their purchase, operation and maintenance.
Griffin Thompson, Judy Laufman
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Feasibility study of microgrid village with renewable energy sources

2017 52nd International Universities Power Engineering Conference (UPEC), 2017
The exploitation of distributed energy resources and problems associated with islanded energy grids are important in optimizing sustainability of electricity supply, where microgrids play a major role in the decentralized and dispersed production. As defined, a microgrid is a group of interconnected loads and distributed energy resources within clearly
Emmanuel Loukakis, Emmanuel Karapidakis
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Institutional Innovation for Urban Village Renewal in Mainland China

2019
China has been experiencing rapid urban development but urban renewal projects on collective rural land often inflicts social conflicts. This article examines an innovative villagers' committee-led land readjustment model which was applied for urban village renewal.
Dinghuan Yuan, Yung Yau, Haijun Bao
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Renewable Energy and Distributed Generation in Rural Villages

First International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems, 2006
This paper on Renewable Energy and Distributed Generation in rural villages is meant for developing nations like Sri Lanka, where there is neither infrastructure of conventional source of energy nor sufficient conventional energy for distribution in some rural villages.
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Renewable Energy Resources for Villages Off the Grid

2015
Low cost, renewable energy technologies introduced by Grameen Shakti to remote Bangladeshi areas appropriately suit the energy needs of rural Bangladesh is. Technologies that even the poor can access are highly sustainable and adaptable. Development of new technologies has clearly improved people’s quality of life.
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Renewable Energy Technology in Construction Ecological Residence of New Villages

Advanced Materials Research, 2012
Energy is an important material base to the live and development of human beings. To solve the lack of the renewable energy which maybe occurs, on one hand, we should advocate vigorously saving energy. On the other hand, we should explore more renewable energy actively such as solar energy, geothermal energy, wind energy, biological energy, etc.
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