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Polish villages and communes in the "European Village Renewal Award" competition

2023
A quarter of a century of the village renewal movement in Poland has passed. This movement was inspired by examples from Austria and Germany. The 25th anniversary of village renewal in Poland provides an opportunity for assessment, comparison and reflection, including comparisons with other countries and regions where village renewal programmes are ...
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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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Gentrification effects of China’s urban village renewals

Urban Studies, 2016
China is known in the post-cold war era for its rapid urban regeneration. Urban villages that emit negative social externalities are a unique and salient disamenity, and are central to the urban regeneration policy and planning. This paper uses micro-geographical data to explore how the extent and configuration of recently renewed urban villages in ...
Wenjie Wu, Jianghao Wang
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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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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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RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES AS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SMART VILLAGES

Studia Iuridica, 2023
The article presents issues related to the location of renewable energy sources in rural areas. Spatial planning regulations are analysed, as well as other regulations enabling or impeding the development of green energy in rural areas. The legal possibilities of realising investments in renewable energy sources in rural areas through the prism of the ...
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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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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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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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