Energy transition and community participation in Portugal, Greece and Israel: Regional differences from a multi-level perspective

2022 ◽  
Vol 87 ◽  
pp. 102467
Author(s):  
María-José Prados ◽  
Ricardo Iglesias-Pascual ◽  
Ángeles Barral
Keyword(s):  
Community Participation ◽  
Regional Differences ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Multi Level

The three paradoxes of the energy transition - Assessing sustainability of large-scale solar photovoltaic through multi-level and multi-scalar perspective in Rwanda

2021 ◽  
Vol 288 ◽  
pp. 125519
Author(s):  
Carole Brunet ◽  
Oumarou Savadogo ◽  
Pierre Baptiste ◽  
Michel A. Bouchard ◽  
Céline Cholez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Solar Photovoltaic ◽  
Multi Level

scholarly journals Shaping Multi-Level Energy and Climate Policy within the SET Plan Framework

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (22) ◽  
pp. 9545
Author(s):  
Mattia Manni ◽  
Valentina Coccia ◽  
Diletta Paoletti ◽  
Fabio Raspadori ◽  
Timo Ritonummi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Policy ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Level Energy ◽  
Energy Policies ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Energy And Climate Policy ◽  
Different Levels

At the dawn of a new European Green Deal (EGD), it is necessary to reconsider the plans and actions that have characterized the European energy policies during recent decades by tuning and updating the priorities and targets. The present work moves from the systematic review of the documents, laws, and scientific studies concerning energy and climate initiatives to the analysis of the role of the Strategic Energy and Technology Plan (SET Plan) in the energy transition. Thus, the principal research question addresses the influence of the SET Plan on multi-level energy policies. To answer this, firstly, the juridical framework in which the SET Plan was instituted is provided; secondly, its correlation to the upcoming EDG is described and the targets identified by each Implementation Working Group (IWG) are discussed. Such a dissertation is followed by the investigation of the activities at various levels from the IWG on Renewable Fuels and Bioenergy. The study has confirmed that the SET Plan contributed to shaping the energy and climate policy at European, national, and regional levels by implementing synergies among different levels of governance, different sectors, and various stakeholders (both public and private). Furthermore, it eased the sharing of data on flagship projects by periodically monitoring the achieved results.

scholarly journals Community Participation in Two Vaccination Trials in Slums of Kolkata, India: A Multi-level Analysis

2010 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Ali ◽  
Dipika Sur ◽  
Anna Lena Lopez ◽  
Suman Kanungo ◽  
R Leon Ochiai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Participation ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Level Analysis

scholarly journals Sub-national government and pathways to sustainable energy

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (7) ◽  
pp. 1139-1155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Cowell ◽  
Geraint Ellis ◽  
Fionnguala Sherry-Brennan ◽  
Peter A Strachan ◽  
David Toke
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Energy ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
National Government ◽  
Building Retrofit ◽  
Democratic Control ◽  
Direct Energy ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Local Reflexivity ◽  
Governance Processes ◽  
The Relationship

In an effort to understand how to promote more sustainable forms of energy provision, researchers have begun addressing the scale of political and governance processes, yet the effects of sub-national government remain neglected. At the same time, analysts of political devolution, decentralisation and independence have rarely given attention to the energy sector. Papers in this special issue seek to better understand the relationship between sub-national government and pathways to sustainable energy: examining how city-regional and devolved governments have shaped agendas for building retrofit; elucidating the importance of decentralised governance in knitting together electricity, heat and transport energy markets; mapping the complex, fuzzy spatial organisation of legal powers to direct energy policy across multi-level polities; and analysing conflicts over the allocation of energy infrastructure consenting powers between national and devolved governments. The papers highlight the interdependencies of action in different governmental arenas, and reinforce arguments for greater central-to-local reflexivity in governance styles. Analysing the interface between sub-national government and energy transition also raises new questions about the meaning of ‘sovereignty’, the fragmentary nature of democratic control over energy systems, and the effects of boundaries.

scholarly journals Subnational governance for the low carbon energy transition: Mapping the UK’s ‘Energy Constitution’

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (7) ◽  
pp. 1176-1197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas L Muinzer ◽  
Geraint Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Energy Transition ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Geographic Context ◽  
Energy Governance ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Subnational Governance ◽  
Low Carbon Energy

The UK has a ‘national’ strategy to decarbonise its energy sector, yet the transfer of key responsibilities to its Devolved Administrations has meant that they control many of the powers that determine the rate and extent of the decarbonisation process. This reflects an asymmetrical distribution of legal responsibilities that has cast a complex range of powers ‘downward’ from the national sphere to subnational scales and which plays a crucial role in shaping the agency at different levels of the UK’s energy governance. This paper provides a detailed exploration of the UK’s ‘Energy Constitution’ as a means of examining the way in which the complex legal framework of devolution shapes the spatial organisation of the UK’s low carbon transition. Previous research on the low carbon transition has remained largely ‘lawless’ and as such has tended to overlook how the legal regimes governing energy both produce space and are shaped by its geographic context. The paper therefore develops a more nuanced understanding of the spatiality, territorialisation and scaling of UK energy governance to highlight a nexus of ambiguity and partial power allocation distributed across a plurality of overlapping ‘legal’ jurisdictions. This raises fundamental questions over how UK constitutional arrangements reify the territoriality of energy governance and structure the relationships between national and subnational multi-level decarbonisation processes.

Assessment and Forecast of Urban Sustainability Based on Dynamic Indicators

2012 ◽  
Vol 524-527 ◽  
pp. 3731-3734
Author(s):  
Dong Jie Guan ◽  
Ji Xia Zhou ◽  
Qing Ye ◽  
Jian Zhou ◽  
Xue Ru Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Regional Differences ◽  
Urban Sustainability ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Development Mode ◽  
Sustainable Environment ◽  
Chongqing City ◽  
Level Method ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Resource Environment

At present, environmental issues associated with rapid economic development are becoming critical concerns that arouse government’s and people’s particular attention. A large amount of influencing factors and especially their complicated interactions have always thrown confused insights into assessing the dynamic evolvement and sustainable development of urban economy–resource–environment (ERE) system and programming the developing strategies. According to connotation and framework of sustainable development, this study proposes a hierarchical multi-level method to evaluate the urban sustainability in Chongqing city of China suffering from depletion of resource and degradation of environment. Integrated assessment results indicate that the current ERE system of Chongqing is not sustainable; environment development mode is more effective to sustainable development of urban ERE system. Under the considerations of development features and regional differences, as well as regular discipline on urbanization, a coordinated combination of environmental, resource and technology modes is believed to realize sustainable development of ERE system.

Developing Frameworks for Examining Community Participation in a Multi-Level Environment

2003 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Smith ◽  
Helen Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Regime Theory ◽  
Community Governance ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Multi Level

The purpose of this paper is to explore public participation from the perspective of two parallel developments in English urban governance since 1997: namely the attempts to modernise local government and area-based approaches employed to tackle social exclusion. The paper will situate these developments within a system of multi-level governance and highlight the significance of the locality-neighbourhood axis. The paper seeks to explicate current changes by drawing on theories of governance. The emphasis on mechanisms that bring together relevant local interests to secure coherence and stability in matters of local governance, combined with the specific focus on the role of citizens and communities as key partners in these arrangements resonates strongly with the key concerns of regime theory. The strengths and limitations of regime theory are discussed with particular reference to matters of contextual specificity. Community Governance is then introduced as a means of better understanding the institutional framework of English localities and, we argue, of providing a sounder basis for the application of regime theory. More powerful still is the potential synthesis of regime approaches with different interpretations of community governance and the paper concludes by drawing on recent developments in English localities to elaborate the potential offered by the this synthesised framework.

scholarly journals Can Regional Gender Ideologies Account for Variation of Gender Pay Gaps? The Case of Germany

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 347
Author(s):  
Maik Hamjediers
Keyword(s):  
Regional Variation ◽  
Regional Differences ◽  
Gender Disparities ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Gender Ideologies ◽  
Market Experience ◽  
Level Statistics ◽  
Indirect Association ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
And Gender

While research often invokes gender disparities in wage-determining characteristics to explain gender pay gaps, why these gender disparities and gender pay gaps vary across contexts has received less attention. Therefore, I analyze how subnational gender ideologies predict gender pay gaps in two ways: as directly affecting gender pay gaps and as indirectly predicting gender pay gaps through intermediate gender disparities in determinants of wage. The analyses are based on German survey data (SOEP 2014–2018) supplemented with regional-level statistics. First, I leverage regional differences in predictors of gender ideologies to estimate region-specific gender ideologies. Mapping these gender ideologies across Germany reveals substantial regional variation. Second, multi-level models provide region-specific gender disparities in wage determinants and gender pay gaps. Results reveal that traditional gender ideologies are associated with women gaining less labor market experience and working less often in full-time jobs or supervising positions. In addition to this indirect association, gender ideologies directly predict the extent of adjusted gender pay gaps. These associations contribute novel evidence on regional variation of gender ideologies and how they can underlie explanations often invoked for gender pay gaps.

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