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The Meso Multiple in energy and climate research: how different social sciences...

The traditional choice of either focussing on individualism (the ‘micro’) or holism (the ‘macro’) when consid ering social change, is seen as an increasingly unhelpful dualism. As such, the ‘meso’, occupying or connecting the space between the micro and macro, is being increasingly invoked in Social Science research on energy and climate. This paper reviews how different Social Science fields (on energy and cli...

Sustentabilidade do Nexus Água-Energia-Alimento: Recomendações para políticas p...

As cidades são centros de atividades humanas e por isso responsáveis por um elevado consumo de recursos naturais, criando uma forte dependência de fontes locais e externas e exercendo pressão sobre sistemas naturais. Esta dependência pode comprometer a resiliência e o aprovisionamento sustentável de serviços urbanos, como transportes, alimentação, climatização de edifícios e consumo de água. Este policy brief a...

Privacy in the age of the internet of things: perceptions and practices in hous...

Scientific and media discourse on the Internet of Things (IoT) emphasizes privacy concerns as a possible hurdle to widespread adoption. Drawing on a study conducted with users of home IoT devices and stakeholders, this article examines their perceptions, attitudes, and practices through the framework of privacy concerns, privacy rationales, and privacy work. The results show that users are ambivalent regarding ...

Scaling food systems transitions

The SHARED GREEN DEAL project aims to drive behavioural, social, and cultural change across Europe in alignment with the Green Deal. This report focuses on transforming industrial food systems that contribute to various crises, including hunger, poverty, obesity, environmental degradation, and biodiversity loss. Through ‘experiments’ in four different European regions, the study explores the potential of the tr...

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City integrated water-energy-food futures – CitySelfy project and stakeholders ...

Urban areas are major consumers of water, energy, and food (WEF). In 2015, Cascais municipality's water, energy, and food imports dependence was 68%, 86.6%, and 85.9%, respectively. This high dependence on external resources induces indirect WEF system pressure and poses risk to the municipality's long-term resilience.The CitySelfy project aims to analyse if WEF self-sufficiency at local scale can be a promoter...

Dimensões sociais da Internet das coisas em contexto doméstico

Strategizing regional food systems as pathways towards sustainability transitio...

Sustainability Transitions and the complexity of its underlying challenges place a tremendous transformative pressure on food systems, putting the food transition on the forefront to generate co-benefits for a multitude of actors and players, translated into positive impacts on the economy, health, the environment, the climate adaptation and on the society. Various international strategies and commitments recom...

Produção e consumo sustentáveis

A temática da Produção e Consumo Sustentáveis (PCS) emerge, ao longo da última década, como preocupação central nas agendas políticas nacionais e internacionais. Apesar de os debates políticos sobre esta matéria estarem patentes em vários relatórios das Nações Unidas, da OCDE e do Conselho Empresarial Mundial para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável, publicados em meados dos anos 90 do século XX, a atenção política e...