A5027667981- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Italian Social Issues and Migration
- Historical and Environmental Studies
- Educational and Social Studies
- Italian Fascism and Post-war Society
- Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
- Urban Planning and Valuation
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis
- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research
- Diverse academic and cultural studies
- Integrated Energy Systems Optimization
- Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition
- Populism, Right-Wing Movements
- Smart Grid Energy Management
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Community Development and Social Impact
- Cooperative Studies and Economics
- Economic Theory and Institutions
- Political Economy and Marxism
- Management, Economics, and Public Policy
- Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
University of Turin
2012-2023
Luigi Einaudi Foundation
2013-2014
This conceptual paper applies a mobilization model to Collective Action Initiatives (CAIs) in the energy sector. The goal is synthesize aspects of sustainable transition theories with social movement theory gain insights into how CAIs mobilize bring about niche-regime change context transition. First, we demonstrate communities, as representation CAIs, relate innovation. We then discuss sector are understood within both sustainability and institutional dynamics theory. While these adept at...
Technological innovations seem to be among the great promises for achieving urgent modernisation of economies towards carbon-neutrality. Ranging from fusion energy, bio-based fuels, carbon capture and storage PV panels so-called smart energy systems, plenty technologies promise reduce use or greenhouse gas emissions based sources. This techno-centric view disregards a extent that technological change affects is affected by societal practices norms. The present paper argues contemporary...
This paper investigates the suitability of community cooperatives (CC) model for implementation renewable energy communities (REC), as prescribed by art. 22 EU Directive 2018/2001, and temporarily transposed into Italian law 42-bis Law Decree n. 162/2019. The hypothesis explored analyses potential synergies between RECs CC, based on their similarities. In particular, article takes consideration: actors involved in both CCs; geographical scope which they develop, purposes that these two legal...
Energy communities (ECs), intended as collective action initiatives in the energy field involving citizens’ participation, have been gaining relevance for past decades an alternative way to organize chain challenge incumbent system. With Europe’s recently adopted Clean Package, ECs found a formal recognition by European Union potential actors of transition system towards wider and more decentralized use renewable sources. Although role is therefore hardly questionable, thorough comprehension...
Abstract Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is increasingly embedded in higher education (HE) due to the current emphasis on tackling environmental crisis. Similarly, Civic Society Organisations are expanding their mobilization and practical action communities. These approaches can reach almost all people planet open avenues effective global around sustainable development. It important connect both learners develop agents of change society. In this paper, we focus how digital...
Racism and racial prejudice, considered a relic of obsolete outdated social systems, is emerging in the depths ultra-modern Western societies with different characteristics from past but surprising worrying virulence. These waves prejudice racism testify to many fears that fill horizons advanced societies, undermining not only their internal reliability, also just democratic settings. This paper presents critical review Islamophobia as showing two main definitions are at work: xeno-racism or...
Urbanization plays a key role in the human activities causing and feeding climate change. At present, change other environmental issues are directly or indirectly related to metabolism of cities. However, cities may also play central fight against This is reason why Urban Metabolism (UM) has become powerful concept account for understand way which complex systems such as use dispose material resources, suggesting measures their operational regimes. The rightsizing optimization UM basically...
ABSTRACT The objective of this research is to understand the nature and diffusion antisemitism Islamophobia in Italy. It based on 1528 interviews among a representative sample Italian population stratified according age, gender, residence. questionnaire used was built by set different scales: antisemitic, Islamophobic, three others scales take into account authoritarian, ethnocentric, anomic attitudes. To test assumptions regarding impact these predictors antisemitic Islamophobic prejudice,...
Studies of the phenomena known as 'rebound effect', 'backfire' and 'Jevons Paradox' have cast doubt on effectiveness, in terms reduction energy use, measures based efficiency gains. Some them shown that improvements are less effective than expected, others lent strength to hypothesis counterproductive long run. The difference between two groups is thus all but negligible. Moreover, it considerable pragmatic significance may undermine foundations solid expectations had led ongoing systems...
The appropriation of nature under current capitalist conditions implies the intensification processes exploitation labour, dispossession peasants' lands, indiscriminate extraction raw materials, and racialization all these processes. These dynamics reveal a double process: from one side we are witnessing global generated alongside socio-ecological phenomena that changing for worse food, energy, land, water, materials regimes. From other an imperious use racist speeches, claims, public...
While the link between cardiovascular and respiratory conditions air pollution is well-known, recent studies provided a growing body of evidence that polluted air, particularly with high levels particulate matter diameter smaller than 2.5 micrometers (PM 2.5), can have range negative impacts on health, both in terms mortality morbidity. It time to emphasize role environmental factors as contributory or determinants global individual health levels, consider them together priority,...
Abstract The categories of biopolitics and biopower were invented by Michel Foucault, who wanted to underline a shifting in state political power toward the caring biological life entire social body. This transformation allowed combination techniques that aimed control individual body standardised multitude bodies. paper analyses biopolitical mechanisms how did they work during era totalitarian states, do act today. During era, became tool surveillance regulation body, racism. second half...