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Positive Energy District Success Factors : Learning from Global Challenges and Success Stories
Siakas, Dimitrios; Siakas , Kerstin; Lampropoulos, Georgios (MDPI, 2025-09-19)
The aim of this study is to examine existing positive energy district (PED) initiatives by using an explanatory research approach for gaining insight, identifying patterns, clarifying underlying processes, exploring cause-and-effect relationships, and explaining phenomena in a greater depth. Specifically, studies from the existing literature that have explored multiple PEDs were analyzed. Current challenges, barriers, and obstacles, as well as success factors, good practices, and policy guidelines are thoroughly investigated, evaluated, categorized and compared to unveil lessons learnt from diverse existing international projects for turning urban areas into self-sustainable and greener urban neighborhoods. The proposed framework aims to reveal the required processes for successful PED creation and operation. It provides an overview of the current state of the art and enhances comprehension and know-how about the processes needed for the successful adoption and integration of PEDs based on lessons learnt from global challenges and success stories.
Green strategic intent, artificial intelligence capability and behavioral dynamics of achieving circular economy goals in the public sector
Zahoor, Nadia; Usman, Muhammad; Khalid , Adeel; Aboelmaged , Mohamed Gamal; Yasin, Naveed (Elsevier, 2025-09-25)
This study investigates the role of green strategic intent in facilitating the adoption of circular economy practices within public sector organizations. Using the dynamic capability view, we proposed that green strategic intent leads to circular economy practices. We also proposed that artificial intelligence (AI) capability and green learning ambidexterity act as significant underlying mechanisms and leader boundary-spanning behavior as a moderator. Data were collected from 228 managers of various public sector departments in United Arab Emirates (UAE) using a time-lagged design. Our results supported that there is a positive relationship between green strategic intent and circular economy practices. Further, green strategic intent positively influences circular economy practices through AI capability and green learning ambidexterity that act as serial mediators of the green strategic intent-circular economy practices link. Finally, leader boundary-spanning behavior significantly moderates the effects of green strategic intent on AI capability. Our findings offer important insights that can enable public sector organizations to implement circular economy practices.
Sustainability transformation calls for complexity-informed systemic policy design
Jalonen , Harri; Uusikylä, Petri (Taylor & Francis, 2025-09-23)
This paper develops a conceptual framework for integrating complexity theory into systemic policy design for sustainability transformations (ST). We conceptualize ST as a dynamic design challenge requiring enabling conditions—relational, cognitive, and institutional—rather than predetermined solutions. The framework operates across three levels: at the macro-level, sustainability trajectories are framed as attractor landscapes; at the meso-level, adaptive spaces enable experimentation beyond dominant institutional constraints; and at the micro-level, self-organizing collective agency drives transformative action. Central generative mechanisms, particularly sensemaking and sensegiving, facilitate the imagination of emergent opportunities, navigation of uncertainty, and mobilization of collective responses.
How participants are integrated into community-driven research for accessibility : A systematic review
Mäkipää, Juho-Pekka; Mäenpää , Teemu; Dang , Duong; Pasanen, Tomi (University of Illinois at Chicago, University's Library, 2025-09-17)
Community-driven research, including citizen science and crowdsourcing, offers effective approaches for addressing accessibility challenges. Given the user-sensitive nature of accessibility research—particularly when involving people with disabilities—it is essential to include individuals from the intended beneficiary groups. This study examines how community-driven research has been applied in accessibility-related contexts and identifies the issues explored. Through a systematic review, we analyzed the topics, mechanisms, participants, and beneficiaries involved. The findings reveal diverse engagement methods and three levels of participation: observers or data collectors, data providers, and task executors. Participants were involved based on professional expertise, personal characteristics, contextual relevance, or as general volunteers. Notably, many studies did not explicitly describe the role of the target population, making it unclear whether the intended beneficiaries were actively involved. The study concludes by proposing future research directions, emphasizing the importance of examining researcher–volunteer relationships through the lenses of ethics, trust, and role expectations.
Sustainable Urban Development Through Emerging Technologies, Process Improvement, and Citizen Commitment
Siakas, Dimitrios; Rahanu, Harjinder; Georgiadou, Elli; Siakas, Kerstin; Lampropoulos, Georgios; Yilmaz, Murat (toim.); Clarke, Paul (toim.); Riel, Andreas (toim.); Messnarz, Richard (toim.); Zelmenis, Mikus (toim.); Buce, Ivi Anna (toim.) (Springer, 2025-08-31)
This study explored how sustainable urban development can be supported through emerging technologies, process improvement, and citizen commitment employed in the adoption of Positive Energy Districts (PEDs). The PED concept is a complex undertaking that requires a systemic, holistic, and integrated approach for its design, implementation, and operation as it addresses multiple interconnected aspects. This aim of the study has been to clarify different PED aspects by carrying out a factor analysis exploring sociocultural, technological, economic, environmental, political, legal, ethical, and demographic (STEEPLED) dimensions. Additionally, the study highlights the main PED opportunities and challenges. The outcomes of this study aid in the understanding of critical factors in the creation, implementation, and operation of PEDs.