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While the twentieth century is considered as the century of population explosion and burning of fossil fuels, environmental policies and the transition to effectively use renewable energy sources have become a priority of strategies in regions, countries and internationally. Different projects have been initiated to study the best suitable transition process towards renewable energy. In addition, an increasing number of climate change and energy policies is being formulated and released at distinct levels of governments. Many of these policies and projects pursue the aim of switching from energy sources like fossil fuels or nuclear power to renewable energy sources like solar, wind or water. The aim of this chapter is to provide foundations of policy implementation and particular methods as well as to investigate five policy implementation cases through a comparative analysis.
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eGovPoliNet—Building a global multidisciplinary digital governance and policy modelling research and practice community. See http://www.policy-community.eu/ (last access: 28 July 2014).
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The framework is published in Annex I to technical report D 4.2 of eGovPoliNet: Maria A. Wimmer and Dragana Majstorovic (Eds.): Synthesis Report of Knowledge Assets, including Visions (D 4.2). eGovPoliNet consortium, 2014, report available under http://www.policy-community.eu/results/public-deliverables/ (last access: 28 July 2014).
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A comparative analysis of tools and technologies is provided in Kamateri et al. (2014).
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A comparative analysis of simulation models is provided in Majstorovic et al. (2014).
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See also the following two websites (last access: 30 July 2014): http://www.dw.de/power-exports-peak-despite-nuclear-phase-out/a-16370444 and http://energytransition.de/.
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See also the following two websites (last access: 30 July 2014): http://www.dw.de/power-exports-peak-despite-nuclear-phase-out/a-16370444 and http://energytransition.de/.
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See http://www.knowbridge.eu/index.php (last access: 29 July 2014) and http://cordis.europa.eu/result/report/rcn/54725_en.html (last access: 29 July 2014).
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See http://www.knowbridge.eu/index.php (last access: 29 July 2014) and http://cordis.europa.eu/result/report/rcn/54725_en.html (last access: 29 July 2014).
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www.ocopomo.eu (last access: 31 July 2014).
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Bär, D., Wimmer, M., Glova, J., Papazafeiropoulou, A., Brooks, L. (2015). Analysis of Five Policy Cases in the Field of Energy Policy. In: Janssen, M., Wimmer, M., Deljoo, A. (eds) Policy Practice and Digital Science. Public Administration and Information Technology, vol 10. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12784-2_16
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