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Value of Transformation: Business-Driven or Technology-Driven?
We are at the cusp of a significant technology-driven transformation of most, if not all, industries. Research and development processes have evolved...
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Introduction: ‘Paradigm Is a Tacit Agreement not to Ask Certain Questions’ (Allen 2003)
This introductory chapter provides basic rationale for writing the present book. In the 1970’s, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen indicated bioeconomic...
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Advanced Sustainable Design (ASD) for Resilient Scenarios
In the era of “rampant post-production”, a time that could be seen as “the fastest technological revolution in history”, defining a new paradigm with...
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International Agreements
The history of inter-governmental efforts at the international level to understand and address climate change issues extends back more than half a...
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Eco-Welfare and Energy: Navigating an Emerging Interplay
To navigate the interplay between eco-welfare and energy, this chapter is dedicated to the discussion of energy as a socio-technical system, to...
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HR Ecosystem Development as a Driver of Increasing Management Sustainability
The research substantiates the priority role of HR ecosystem development in improving the sustainability of a contemporary university’s strategic...
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Develo** an Urban Resource Cadaster for Circular Economy
The ever-increasing pressure on resources has provided an impetus to the circular economy paradigm, especially in the construction sector....
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Introduction and Use Cases of P2P Trading
The electricity industry is experiencing unprecedented and rapid change due to the interaction between the urgent need for climate change, the...
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A review on different theoretical models of electrocaloric effect for refrigeration
The performance parameters for characterizing the electrocaloric effect are isothermal entropy change and the adiabatic temperature change,...
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A Green Technological Rehabilitation of the Built Environment. From Public Residential Estates to Eco-Districts
The environmental quality of the modern city is a central issue in the Italian and international design debate. The pandemic and the perspective of a...
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Why Do We Need the Distributed Energy Solution for Low-Carbon Society?
Growing concerns about climate change and energy security have led to a paradigm shift in the energy framework. In this regard, distributed...
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Green Economy as a Factor in the Transformation of Environmentally Oriented Management
Over the past few decades, the rapid development of the economy has led to an unprecedented increase in natural resources and energy consumption, as...
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How Much Energy Storage can We Afford? On the Need for a Sunflower Society, Aligning Demand with Renewable Supply
The worsening climate crisis impels society to accelerate climate action. The attainable speed of the energy transition is ultimately limited by the...
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Transitioning from a Linear to a Circular Construction Supply Chain
Circular economy (CE), unlike the linear (take-make-dispose) economy, is an economic paradigm which envisions that materials and products are kept at...
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Beyond 2040: Getting to Energy Utopia
In a very possible ENERGY 2040 utopian scenario, energy will be abundant, equitable, and sustainable. Materials will be processed using clean...
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Smart Heating in Centralized Urban Heating Systems
One cornerstone of China's “Carbon Neutrality” roadmap is to realize the sustainable development of district heating systems to reduce their impact...
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Market-Based Environmental Policies in the Power Sector
Purpose of ReviewSo-called Green New Deals aim to decarbonise the power sector via market-based instruments. Consequently, engineering-economic...
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“Surviving the City”. Nature as an Architecture Design Strategy for a More Resilient Urban Ecosystem
In a scenario in which cities will be the environment inhabited by more than 80% of the world’s population, architecture has to respond to the...
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Understanding Ongoing Disruptions in Energy
Many of the energy transition-related technologies – PV, wind, storage, EVs, electrification – are seeing rapidly declining prices and are rapidly...
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Modelling renewable energy communities: assessing the impact of different configurations, technologies and types of participants
BackgroundEnergy communities (ECs) have emerged as a solution to support governments mitigating climate change and comply with decarbonization goals,...
