Recent European policy efforts stimulate the emergence of community energy initiatives,
and the European Commission explicitly aims to enable a just transition towards a low …

Cities are key in climate mitigation and adaptation, and they have developed into sites of
innovative urban climate governance that can spur on climate action. Building on this …

Assessment of the social science literature and regional case studies reveals how social
norms, culture, and individual choices, interact with infrastructure and other structural …

This chapter takes sustainable development as the starting point and focus for analysis. It
considers the broad and multifaceted bi-directional interplay between sustainable …

Abstract For the Pacific Islands, community-based adaptation activities are crucial, and yet it
remains uncertain whether they are effectively promoting long-term adaptive capacity. Here …

Global climate change is considered an irreversible problem, which might directly or
indirectly affect all the organisms and ecosystems on the earth and the world has to struggle …

Distribution of tree species is a function of climatic (such as temperature and precipitation)
and topographic (such as altitude, slope, and exposure) parameters. It is thought that any …

In calls for transition to a society in which energy production is based on renewable sources,
a fundamental role is increasingly assigned to so-called'energy communities'. The …

Abstract In 2008, Walker and Devine-Wright published a short article that is now a key way-
marker in the field:'Community renewable energy: what should it mean?'. A decade on, in …

Current efforts to change patterns of energy demand tend to target people as discrete and
isolated individuals. In so doing, they ignore the fact that energy use occurs in places such …