Article
Communication
Pedro Bustamante, Marcela Gomez, William Lehr, Ilia Murtazashvili, Ali Palida, Martin B. H. Weiss
Summary: Amateur radio operators provide societal services, but the benefits derived from these services are difficult to define formally or contractually, resulting in potential under-provisioning in traditional market economies. Communities like amateur radio may not benefit from exclusive-resource rights and trading, and instead, non-market mechanisms and non-exclusive property-rights regimes can be analyzed through the lens of polycentricity.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY
(2023)
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Cruz E. Borges, Evgenia Kapassa, Marios Touloupou, Jon Legarda Macon, Diego Casado-Mansilla
Summary: Flexible and distributed energy markets rely on the acceptance of blockchain and smart contracts by prosumers. This study analyzes the hesitations and concerns of prosumers regarding smart contracts and investigates their understanding of blockchain. Survey results from several European countries reveal the crucial role that blockchain plays in energy markets.
CONNECTION SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Turner Cotterman, Mitchell J. Small, Stephen Wilson, Ahmed Abdulla, Gabrielle Wong-Parodi
Summary: This paper discusses the impact of social acceptance on energy systems models by integrating the factor of social acceptance of low-carbon nuclear power to illustrate deep decarbonization pathways. If risk tolerance concerns restrict nuclear deployment to socially acceptable levels, deep decarbonization scenarios will be more expensive and require other low-carbon options to replace them.
Article
Economics
Adi Cohen, Itay Fischhendler, David Katz
Summary: This study examines the acceptability of a new technology designed to mitigate harm to wildlife by analyzing stakeholder interactions in a regulatory process. The findings suggest that different types of uncertainties can influence the acceptance of the technology over time. Recommendations for resolving issues inhibiting institutional acceptance are also provided.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Seven Agir, Pinar Derin-Gure, Bilge Senturk
Summary: Agrivoltaics is a technology that combines renewable energy generation and agricultural production, with the potential to address land use conflicts. Understanding farmers' perceptions of the opportunities and barriers to Agrivoltaics implementation is crucial for stakeholder participation and social acceptance. This first study on Turkish farmers' perspectives reveals their positive attitude towards Agrivoltaics, but concerns about bureaucratic hassle and shortcomings in the current legislation undermine its viability.
Article
Operations Research & Management Science
Ming-hui Wang, Nan-jing Huang
Summary: This paper extends the classic optimal research and development investment model into the regime-switching environment and formulates a robust model to obtain the maximal net value function of the R&D project. Although a closed-form solution is not found, a numerical simulation is conducted to further study the qualities of the solution to the model.
Review
Energy & Fuels
Antoine Boche, Clement Foucher, Luiz Fernando Lavado Villa
Summary: There is a growing research interest in studying microgrids as a solution to address the lack of energy access. This article proposes a new paradigm to comprehensively review and understand the operation of microgrids. By reconciling different fields related to microgrids, this review aims to provide a unified framework for studying microgrids and diagnosing their long-term sustainability.
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Nasibeh Pouti, Mohammad Taghi Taghavifard, Mohammad Reza Taghva, Mohammad Fathian
Summary: This study develops a research model to explain the acceptance of social banking. Using a meta-combination, the antecedents of social banking intention were identified. The model was validated through the partial least squares method and intermediate variables were analyzed to obtain the final results. The study reveals that factors such as trust, attitude, social support, word of mouth, social influence, and perceived usefulness directly and indirectly influence social banking intention.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & DECISION MAKING
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Catherine Sutherland, Eva Reynaert, Sifiso Dhlamini, Fanelesibonge Magwaza, Juri Lienert, Michel E. Riechmann, Sibongile Buthelezi, Duduzile Khumalo, Eberhard Morgenroth, Kai M. Udert, Rebecca C. Sindall
Summary: Providing safe, dignified, reliable, affordable and sustainable water and sanitation facilities for all is a major global challenge. This study tested a waterless sanitation system and found that it performed well and was highly socially accepted in the test household. The testing process resulted in broader developmental benefits for the household, including improved basic services, social learning, and improved relationships between household members and the local state.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Article
Economics
Bruno Amable, Stefano Palombarini
Summary: This paper presents a political economy theory of social conflict, institutional change, and crises based on the diversity of perceived interests among social groups. The conflict encompasses ideology, institutions, and politics, with different social groups occupying dominant or dominated positions in each dimension. Political stability relies on the existence of a dominant social bloc, which supports the ruling political actors. Institutional change is driven by political actors' search for support, while crisis situations occur when the dominant social bloc ruptures. The success of addressing crises and reconstituting a dominant social bloc depends on finding a political strategy that aligns the expectations of social groups with different perceived interests. The paper demonstrates the applicability of this theory through examples from the French and Italian economic and political contexts in recent decades.
NEW POLITICAL ECONOMY
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Qifei Ma, Peng Jia, Haibo Kuang
Summary: This study explores the integration of social development index into transportation efficiency evaluation, showing that SDI promotes transportation efficiency; however, China's comprehensive transportation green efficiency is relatively low with significant spatial differences; technological change and efficiency improvements have positive impacts on green efficiency, with varying effects in different regions.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Stergios Emmanouil, Jason Philhower, Sophie Macdonald, Fahad Khan Khadim, Meijian Yang, Ezana Atsbeha, Himaja Nagireddy, Natalie Roach, Elizabeth Holzer, Emmanouil N. Anagnostou
Summary: This study aimed to design an environmentally friendly microgrid utilizing Ethiopia's abundant renewable energy potential to ensure the sustainability of irrigation water pumping and provide energy support for other community needs. By integrating social data and fieldwork interviews, a realistic energy demand plan for African agricultural communities was formulated, along with the analysis of the microgrid's potential functionality and capital cost.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Sara M. Constantino, Silvia Pianta, Adrian Rinscheid, Renato Frey, Elke U. Weber
Summary: The study found that institutional signals, particularly from science or business actors, can shift perceptions of descriptive social norms about climate action and influence intended pro-environmental behaviors, but they do not increase personal contributions to environmental causes, indicating that a shift in perceived norms may be insufficient to drive personal action, especially when it involves personal costs. This highlights the importance of institutional signals and messengers in changing perceptions of social norms, as well as the complexities involved in norm interventions ultimately aimed at influencing behavior.
Article
Anthropology
Diana Mincyte
Summary: This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the concepts of the food regime and gender regime to examine the current deagrarianization trends. It aims to establish a research agenda for studying the food regime through the lens of gender and labor relations. By integrating insights from feminist scholarship and early discussions on family farming, it highlights the significance of social reproduction in shaping agro-food systems. The paper also reevaluates the importance of family, kinship, and strong ties as forms of social organization in capitalist production, emphasizing the role of household-level ideology and the temporalities of social and biological reproduction in conceptualizing the evolution of the food regime.
JOURNAL OF PEASANT STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Aisa O. Manlosa, Anna-Katharina Hornidge, Achim Schlueter
Summary: Aquaculture is rapidly growing globally, replacing traditional fisheries in some areas and bringing sustainability challenges. Research in Central Luzon, Philippines found that fish farming became important due to saltwater intrusion and grew into an industry with high demand and profitability. While market institutions have adapted, regulatory institutions need further improvements to protect the environment.
REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
M. Genovese, F. Piraino, P. Fragiacomo
Summary: This research proposes the concept of a hydrogen valley in southern Italy, where hydrogen is produced centrally and delivered via fuel cell hybrid trains to refueling stations, providing transportation services. The analysis from both technical and economic perspectives shows that the cost of hydrogen and energy efficiency reached competitive levels, and hydrogen rail transport offers significant benefits in terms of emissions reduction and economic gains compared to conventional diesel trains and fully electric trains.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Miaomiao Liu, Payam Nejat, Pinlu Cao, Carlos Jimenez-Bescos, John Kaiser Calautit
Summary: This article provides a critical review of the performance of windcatchers, pointing out the current research gaps and issues, and proposing directions for further investigation and market prospects.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Solomon Boadu, Ebenezer Otoo
Summary: Despite Africa's vast energy resources, including wind energy, the continent faces challenges in developing its wind energy industry. Northern African countries and South Africa currently dominate the wind energy sector in Africa. To uplift Africa's socio-economic status, strong political will, supportive policies, and institutional frameworks are needed to drive the development of wind energy and overcome existing challenges.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
E. K. Grubbs, S. M. Gruss, V. Z. Schull, M. J. Gosney, M. V. Mickelbart, S. Brouder, M. W. Gitau, P. Bermel, M. R. Tuinstra, R. Agrawal
Summary: As the global population grows, the demand for food, energy, and water will increase significantly. However, limited land availability and competition for solar resources pose challenges to resource generation technologies. In the United States, both agriculture and solar energy production have adopted densification schemes to improve yields and energy output per unit of land. This research proposes an Agrivoltaic food and energy coproduction architecture that optimizes power generation while maintaining crop productivity by implementing ideal anti-tracking during critical growth periods. This technology offers a viable pathway for widespread solar implementation throughout the contiguous United States.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Han Shao, Rui Henriques, Hugo Morais, Elisabetta Tedeschi
Summary: The integration of offshore wind energy into the electric grid provides opportunities in terms of environmental sustainability and cost efficiency, but poses challenges to power quality. This survey offers a deeper understanding of disturbance detection and classification tools, exploring root causes, disturbance locations, and algorithmic solutions. It highlights synchronized waveform measurement and discusses evaluation metrics for detection and classification algorithms. Additionally, a novel system-wide monitoring framework is proposed.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Eleni Davidson, Yair Schwartz, Joe Williams, Dejan Mumovic
Summary: A continued upward trend in global greenhouse gas emissions poses risks to global infrastructure and built assets. Maintaining high indoor environmental quality standards is a challenge for higher education institutions under future climates. Passive cooling mechanisms may be insufficient to tolerate predicted temperature increases. Different building typologies have varying energy demand projections.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Kexin Pang, Jian Zhou, Stamatis Tsianikas, David W. Coit, Yizhong Ma
Summary: This study proposes a new framework for long-term microgrid expansion planning, using deep reinforcement learning method to consider various uncertainties and constraints. The framework aims to enhance the effectiveness of microgrid expansion planning from the perspectives of economy, resilience, and greenhouse gas emission reduction.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Jun Zhao, Kangyin Dong, Xiucheng Dong
Summary: The continuous growth of global electricity penetration has provided modern energy for alleviating energy poverty, but its impact on carbon neutrality has been overlooked. The research reveals that clean electricity from traditional fossil energy and renewable energy has a positive influence on the greenhouse effect. Eradicating energy poverty can effectively alleviate the greenhouse effect, especially in non-Belt and Road Initiative (B&RI) nations.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Hossein Shahbeik, Hamed Kazemi Shariat Panahi, Mona Dehhaghi, Gilles J. Guillemin, Alireza Fallahi, Homa Hosseinzadeh-Bandbafha, Hamid Amiri, Mohammad Rehan, Deepak Raikwar, Hannes Latine, Bruno Pandalone, Benyamin Khoshnevisan, Christian Sonne, Luigi Vaccaro, Abdul-Sattar Nizami, Vijai Kumar Gupta, Su Shiung Lam, Junting Pan, Rafael Luque, Bert Sels, Wanxi Peng, Meisam Tabatabaei, Mortaza Aghbashlo
Summary: This review explores the production of biocrude oil from biomass feedstocks through the process of hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL). It discusses the impact of process parameters on the quality, quantity, cost, and environmental impacts of biofuels. The review also highlights the challenges and prospects for the future development of biocrude oil.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Meysam Majidi Nezhad, Mehdi Neshat, Georgios Sylaios, Davide Astiaso Garcia
Summary: Digital twins promise innovation for the marine renewable energy sector by using modern technological advances and the existing maritime knowledge frameworks. This research presents critical aspects of digital twin implementation challenges in marine energy digitalization approaches that use and combine data systems.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Yeganeh Sharifian, Hamdi Abdi
Summary: This paper discusses the background and objectives of the multi-area economic dispatch problem, as well as various techniques and methods applied in this field. It also covers comprehensive formulations of the problem and important issues in the field of probabilistic MAED, along with some related concepts and suggestions.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
J. G. B. Churchill, V. B. Borugadda, A. K. Dalai
Summary: The increasing global energy demand and the need to reduce fossil fuel reliance have created a demand for renewable and sustainable fuel sources. This review explores the potential of tall oil, a by-product of the pulping industry, as a feedstock for biofuels. The review provides an overview of tall oil production, purification, and treatment, and investigates recent trends and barriers towards tall oil-derived biofuels.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
David C. Broadstock, Xiangnan Wang
Summary: This study provides a general review of research on district cooling, identifying key topics and themes and highlighting potential research priorities for future studies.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
L. Scharnhorst, D. Sloot, N. Lehmann, A. Ardone, W. Fichtner
Summary: This study investigates and analyzes the barriers to demand response in industrial and commercial sectors, highlighting their significance. Concerns about diminished product quality, disruptions to production processes, human resource management, and revenue uncertainty are identified as the most frequently cited barriers. Overcoming these barriers requires bridging knowledge gaps, allocating sufficient resources, and adapting external incentives and policies.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Tong Feng, Yuechi Sun, Yating Shi, Jie Ma, Chunmei Feng, Zhenni Chen
Summary: Air pollution is a significant global challenge, and policymakers have implemented policies to reduce it. Evaluating the effectiveness of these policies is critical, and our study reveals trends and gaps in air pollution policy research. We found that research has shifted from focusing solely on air pollutants to including methodologies, policies, and health implications. China has emerged as a major contributor in this field of research.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)