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Social-Ecological Resilience of Local Food Supply Chains : Collaborative Governance and the Potential Role of Food Policy Councils
Full text linkCo-Creating Sustainable Transformations of Food Supply Chains through Cooperative Business Models and Governance
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Local intermediaries in energy transitions: bridging the gap from niche level to changing the regime
No full textStädte sind ein wichtiger Kontext für den Ressourcenverbrauch, Innovationszentren und eine privilegierte Ebene für die Erprobung und Umsetzung neuer Problemlösungsansätze. Sie sind daher wichtige Ausgangspunkte für Nachhaltigkeitstransformationen. Diese Transformationen sind nur zum Teil technischer Natur, sondern im Wesentlichen eingebettet in, basierend auf und bestehend aus Veränderungen in sozialen Praktiken und in der Organisation gesellschaftlicher Problemlösungen. In diesem Beitrag wird eine zentrale Form des organisatorischen Wandels in lokalen Energiewende-Strategien aufgezeigt: Die Schaffung lokaler Intermediäre, die durch ihre Funktion und Position zwischen anderen Akteuren definiert sind
Cities as laboratories for the energy transition
No full textCities are at the forefront of the energy transition, playing a pivotal role in shaping the way we generate, consume, and manage energy. At the urban level, frictions in the energy regime and specific local constellations can open space for experimentation with energy system innovations with the potential to transform the energy regime beyond the local context. This paper proposes that urban stakeholders not only adopt novel strategies and technologies, positioning cities as testing grounds and pivotal sites for implementing change but also innovate and explore new methods to improve energy efficiency, alter energy consumption patterns, and innovate energy production. Focusing on the local scope of action and the urban level as a level for experimentation, this paper applies the multilevel perspective Geels (Res Policy 31:1257–74, 2002), which analyzes transformations as an interplay of three different levels: landscape, regime, and niches. The results are based on case studies in two metropolitan areas in Germany, Frankfurt/Main and Berlin. Starting with a literature review on the role and scope of actions for cities, it presents and discusses findings from qualitative guideline-based actor and expert interviews, providing insight into the assessment, experiences and perceptions of key actors of the local energy systems of these two urban areas. The results highlight the scope and fields of action of cities and highlight the high potential for local experimentation as well as existing challenges and barriers
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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