Barriers inhibiting the transition to sustainability within the Australian construction industry: An investigation of technical and social interactions

I Martek, MR Hosseini, A Shrestha, DJ Edwards… - Journal of cleaner …, 2019 - Elsevier
Research concedes that the building industry in Australia has fallen short of satisfying
sustainability requirements. Currently, the responsibility for transitioning the building industry …

Context and agency in urban community energy initiatives: An analysis of six case studies from the Baltic Sea Region

S Ruggiero, H Busch, T Hansen, A Isakovic - Energy Policy, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, we analyse community energy (CE) projects in urban settings. Building on
insights from the literature on the geography of sustainability transitions, we examine how …

Transformative policy mixes in socio-technical scenarios: The case of the low-carbon transition of the German electricity system (2010–2050)

KS Rogge, B Pfluger, FW Geels - Technological Forecasting and Social …, 2020 - Elsevier
Much research and policy advice for addressing climate change has focused on developing
model-based scenarios to identify pathways towards achieving decarbonisation targets. The …

Connecting the grids: A review of blockchain governance in distributed energy transitions

AD Valdivia, MP Balcell - Energy Research & Social Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Critical effects of global climate change urgently call for socio-technical transitions towards
more efficient, flexible and cleaner energy systems. However, adequate regulatory …

Co-creating urban green infrastructure connecting people and nature: A guiding framework and approach

APN van der Jagt, M Smith, B Ambrose-Oji… - Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Urban green infrastructure (UGI) and nature-based solutions are increasingly recognized as
instruments to address urban sustainability challenges, yet rely on a good understanding of …

Learning in urban climate governance: concepts, key issues and challenges

M Wolfram, J Van der Heijden, S Juhola… - … Policy & Planning, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Over the past decade, diverse urban governance innovations and experiments have
emerged with the declared aim to foster climate change mitigation and adaptation, involving …

How cities learn: From experimentation to transformation

J Evans, T Vácha, H Kok, K Watson - Urban Planning, 2021 - cogitatiopress.com
Cities must change rapidly to address a range of sustainability challenges. While urban
experimentation has prospered as a framework for innovation, it has struggled to stimulate …

Networking cities after Paris: Weighing the ambition of urban climate change experimentation

E Smeds, M Acuto - Global Policy, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past few decades, cities have repeatedly demonstrated high levels of ambition with
regard to climate action. Global environmental governance has been marked by a …

[HTML][HTML] Making it experimental in several ways: The work of intermediaries in raising the ambition level in local climate initiatives

K Matschoss, E Heiskanen - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2017 - Elsevier
Local climate experimentation is a topical issue as cities and rural municipalities are
increasingly engaging in various local energy experiments in order to act against climate …

Climate change mitigation in cities: a systematic scoping of case studies

M Sethi, W Lamb, J Minx… - Environmental Research …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
A growing number of researchers and stakeholders have started to address climate change
from the bottom up: by devising scientific models, climate plans, low-carbon strategies and …