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Exploring industrial community energy systems: A missing link in the industrial energy transition?

Eslamizadeh, S. (author)

The transition to renewable energy sources affects all sectors of society, including the industrial sector. Besides climate policy ambitions and other concerns regarding the social and environmental acceptability of energy provision, the transition to renewables may also improve the availability and affordability of energy services. The latter...

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Editorial: Institutional adaptation and transformation for climate resilience

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Energy Security of Thermal Energy Communities

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This thesis aims to support the design and implementation of energy-secure thermal energy communities (TEC) by investigating their technical, behavioural and institutional settings through a collective action perspective. The thesis shows that energy-secure TEC initiatives are collective energy systems with particular characteristics and...

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Collective action lessons for the energy transition: Learning from social movements of the past

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Irrigation on the move: How transient farming partnerships facilitate the expansion of smallholder irrigation along ephemeral rivers in dryland areas of Kenya

Karimba, Benson Mutuma (author), Duker, Annelieke (author), Prasad, Pooja (author), Karimi, Poolad (author), de Fraiture, Charlotte (author), van der Zaag, P. (author)

Irrigation is commonly viewed as an activity fixed in time and place requiring permanent infrastructure. However, smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa engage in irrigation in diverse locations under different organizational modalities. This research analyses a flexible and dynamic form of irrigation driven by unique partnerships between...

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Energy security in community energy systems: An agent-based modelling approach

Fouladvand, J. (author), Ghorbani, A. (author), Sarı, Yasin (author), Hoppe, T. (author), Kunneke, R.W. (author), Herder, P.M. (author)

In community energy systems, the energy demand of a group of households is met by collectively generated electricity and heat from renewable energy sources. What makes these systems unique is their collective and collaborative form of organization and their distributed energy generation. While these features are crucial to the resilience of...

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Behavioural attributes towards collective energy security in thermal energy communities: Environmental-friendly behaviour matters

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Community energy systems as decentralized and collective renewable energy systems, where the energy is jointly generated and distributed among a community of households, are gaining momentum. The collective action of individual households as a core characteristic of such energy systems influences the energy availability, energy costs, and...

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Taking sanctioning seriously: The impact of sanctions on the resilience of historical commons in Europe

De Moor, Tine (author), Farjam, Mike (author), van Weeren, René (author), Bravo, Giangiacomo (author), Forsman, Anders (author), Ghorbani, A. (author), Aleebrahimdehkordi, M. (author)

In their studies of collective exploitation of common-pool resources, Ostrom and other scholars have stressed the importance of sanctioning as an essential method for preventing overuse and, eventually, the collapse of commons. However, most of the available evidence is based on data covering a relatively small period in history, and thus...

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This paper presents an agent-based model that explores the conditions for ongoing participation in community gardening projects. We test the effects of Ostrom’s well-known Design Principles for collective action and use an extensive database collected in 123 cases in Germany and two case studies in the Netherlands to validate it. The model...

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Can industries be parties in collective action? Community energy in an Iranian industrial zone

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The industrial sector plays a huge role in creating economic growth. While energy is vital for industries to thrive, various factors are undermining the availability of energy including phasing out of fossil fuels, CO2 emission caps and, the large gap between the fast developments of industrial clusters and the energy supply, especially in...

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Growing community energy initiatives from the bottom up: Simulating the role of behavioural attitudes and leadership in the Netherlands

Ghorbani, A. (author), Nascimento, Leonardo (author), Filatova, Tatiana (author)

Local energy initiatives (LEIs) are communities of households who self-organize to meet their energy demand with locally produced green energy. They facilitate citizen participation by developing context-specific solutions, which calls for leadership and complex social dynamics. We present an agent-based simulation model to explore the...

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Infection prevention as a shared responsibility: Improving the patient experience during contact isolation

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Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) can occur when microorganisms spread between hospitalized patients. To prevent highly contagious or resistant microorganisms from spreading from one patient to the other, isolation precautions such as contact isolation are applied when patients carry such a microorganism. The first part of this theses...

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Emergence of leadership in communities: A study on how leadership emerges through an innovation process for solving community problems

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Many regions around the world are facing water shortage, low water quality, unsustainable overuse or other problems that may even cause conflict among different actors. These water resources are typical examples of common-pool resources. Leaders seem to play a crucial role in the emergence of community-based management of resources and...

master thesis 2019

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Emergence of collective digital innovations through the process of control point driven network reconfiguration and reframing: the case of mobile payment

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Decentralized digital technologies require multiple organizations to collectively create digital innovations. Control over the resources required for digital innovations is often therefore dispersed among multiple actors. Actors may have conflicting interests and business models which cause collective digital innovations to come to a...

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Landscapes of Resistance: documenting the frontline of Climate Change in Louisiana

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Louisiana, USA, operates as an oilscape, sacrificing its landscape in pursuit of economic prosperity through the oil and gas industry. Combined with sea level rise, this has resulted in continuous land loss since the fifties, making the Louisiana coast one of the fastest declining in the world. As a consequence, many communities are living on...

master thesis 2018

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Governance of cybersecurity communities: Understanding threat intelligence sharing as a collective action problem through incentivization of the National Detection Network

Bouwman, Xander (author)

Organizations benefit from improved cybersecurity threat detection capabilities if they share information in a community of their peers. However, organizations are unlikely to share the sensitive information that is most valuable as this poses individual risks. Information sharing in cybersecurity communities therefore forms a collective action...

master thesis 2018

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Identifying Blockages and Unblocking Strategy for Digital Trade Infrastructures Innovation Process

Arman, Siti Arna Arifah (author)

Role of digital infrastructures to improve data exchange on trade lanes becomes more critical as complex border procedures contribute to inefficiency of the international supply chain. However, digital infrastructures innovation in international trade (DTI) has not reached the implementation phase. We are interested to analyse digital trade...

master thesis 2018

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Renewable energy cooperatives: collective actions, or investment games?: An agent-based model of cooperation in renewable energy cooperatives

Fraaije, Maria (author)

In order to mitigate climate change, the energy system will have to change dramatically. Energy production has historically been a centralized process without citizen participation. Recently, the energy production system is becoming increasingly decentralized. However, a polycentric energy production system requires active citizen involvement....

master thesis 2018

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Allocating responsibility for environmental risks: A comparative analysis of examples from water governance

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The focus of the present study is on the allocation of responsibilities for addressing environmental risks in transboundary water governance. Effective environmental management in transboundary situations requires coordinated and cooperative action among diverse individuals and organizations. Currently, little insight exists on how to foster...

journal article 2017

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Overcoming blockages to collective innovation in digital infrastructures: The case of mobile payment

Rukanova, B.D. (author), de Reuver, G.A. (author), Henningsson, stefan (author), Nikayin, F.A. (author), Tan, Y. (author)

Decentralized digital technologies increasingly enable multiple organizations to co-create digital infrastructures. However, collective innovation processes often come to a stand-still because of conflicting interests and business models. While existing research suggests various factors that block collective innovation processes, there is still...

book chapter 2017