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Scientific approaches to community energy

This is a review of the literature on community energy. We analyze more than 250 studies that appeared in the academic literature in the period 1997-2018. We investigate the timing regarding the appearance of these studies, the geographical orientation of the research, and the journals in which the articles appeared. We also analyse the keywords used to identify the research. Further, we relate the articles to the theoretical perspectives employed. We also analyse keywords used by the authors in relation to the particular approaches employed and reflect on the country specifics of the case studies. We find that the majority of studies on community energy did appear in the last couple of years. Especially the UK, US, Germany and the Netherlands are being investigated. Energy Policy published most of the studies. Different theoretical perspectives study community energy, especially Governance, Sociology, Economics, Planning, Technology, and Transition. We conclude that the study of community energy is still in its infancy as there is little commonality in the terminology and key concepts used. Studying community energy requires further improvement in order to better integrate the different theoretical perspectives and to ground policy decisions.

The power of friends and neighbors: a review of community energy research

The threat of climate change and the Paris agreement to limit global temperature rise to well below 2?C and to pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5?C has stimulated research on and broad commitment to community energy. We investigate this research. We assess how nine different approaches study community energy over time, which methods they use, which countries and regions they focus on, and where they discuss and publish. We analyze the keywords used to identify the research and investigate how these differ along the approaches. We show that community energy research took off only very recently and that especially ‘developed’ countries, in particular, the United Kingdom, United States, Germany, and the Netherlands, are studied. Different networks contribute to the understanding of community energy; however, the maturity and reach of these networks vary and there is limited exchange between research networks.

Gemengd wonen met statushouders

Gemengde woonprojecten zijn woonvormen waarin verschillende groepen mensen doelbewust samenwonen, contact onderhouden en gezamenlijk activiteiten ondernemen. Deze vorm van huisvesting is de laatste jaren populair geworden vanwege het tekort aan sociale huurwoningen voor starters en de vraag naar woningen voor allerlei groepen met (tijdelijke en) urgente woonbehoeften, zoals erkende vluchtelingen (statushouders). Naast het vervullen van een woonbehoefte spelen bij gemengd-wonen projecten met statushouders vaak ook andere maatschappelijke doelen een rol, zoals participatie en integratie. Woningcorporatie Stadgenoot is sinds 2018 gestart met drie gemengd wonen projecten (Stek-projecten). Mede geïnspireerd door andere gemengd-wonen projecten in Amsterdam, is voor de Stek-projecten ingezet op het opbouwen van een community en het bevorderen van ‘een goede buur zijn’. Daarnaast is het contact met Stadgenoot en ondersteunende organisaties laagdrempelig georganiseerd. Op verzoek van Stadgenoot hebben Verwey-Jonker Instituut en Hogeschool Utrecht, Kenniscentrum Sociale Innovatie, onderzoek gedaan naar de ervaringen van bewoners en beroepskrachten betrokken bij de Stek-projecten. Doel van deze tussentijdse evaluatie was om op basis van deze ervaringen vast te stellen welke lessen getrokken kunnen worden over de opzet, het proces van totstandkoming en de werking van de sociale infrastructuur van de woonprojecten. Dit met het oog op eventuele verbetering van de Stek-projecten en op mogelijke toekomstige gemengd-wonen projecten van Stadgenoot. In het bijzonder is in het onderzoek gekeken naar het bereiken van de (sociale en integratie) doelen achter de projecten en of en in hoeverre de Stek-projecten hieraan bijdragen.

Unpacking Energy Needs

From efficiency to reduction

This book presents the results of the international research project CODALoop: Community Data Loop for Energy Conscious Lifestyles. It dissects the energy practices that make urban households demanding energy in their daily life and reveals the pathway towards reducing this energy demand.To unpack energy practices, the authors of this volume move away from efficiency problems studying the interaction between human and new technologies. Instead, they use a repertoire of different analytical instruments to study how interaction between humans, and between humans and data, change the social norms that shape energy needs.The volume offers a synthesis of a cross-disciplinary study of energy reduction carried out in three different countries through multiple methodological approaches. The project at the source of the book was funded under the Joint Program Initiative 'Urban Europe' and the ERA-net framework.

WORKING APART TOGETHER

Presentation 2nd International New Business Model Conference 2018In current society, we observe the emergence of new collaborative forms of organising on a regional scale in which civilians, organisations, and institutions engage in processes of collective action (Ostrom, 2009, 2010a). We refer to these novel forms of organising as communities. We set out to understand how constituents in these communities collaboratively determine their strategic objectives aand subsequently plan and engage in multiple value creating activities that address wicked problems (Faber & Jonker, 2015; Weber & Khademian, 2008). The aim of this contribution is to develop a typology of regional communities trying to address wicked problems through collective action.