The implementation of national renewable energy targets requires policies at the local level.
Communities are considered as key arenas of transforming policies into actions, where …

Decades of techno-economic energy policymaking and research have meant evidence from
the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH)—including critical reflections on what changing …

The spread of community initiatives in energy production raises many questions and calls for
new interpretations on the development of these processes. Among community energy …

The objective of this article is to find a way to pursue optimum spatial policy on the local level
to meet the assumptions of the energy policy of the European Union. Factors influencing …

To close an existing literature gap, we explore the conditions critical for the enactment of
local energy transition and the shift to decarbonized renewable heating systems in the …

There is interest in the circular economy as a framework for transition from a linear take-
make-dispose model of production and consumption, to a circular model which decouples …

Energy is a basic issue for cleaner production and more sustainable consumption. A
transition to renewable sources and massive energy savings face several problems …

La diffusione di iniziative comunitarie nell'ambito della produzione energetica sollevano
molti interrogativi che richiedono nuove interpretazioni per l'analisi di tali processi. Tra …

Social research on the transition to renewable energies has focused on understanding
public policies and social movements. Energy knowledge plays an important practical …

This paper argues that the current spatial patterns of energy retrofits in post-socialist
apartment buildings are unequally distributed across municipalities in Bucharest, Romania …