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Engaged Communities for Low Carbon Development Process

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Starting from stakeholder’s involvement methodology, the paper will present example of community/stakeholders engagement process in concrete actions and Energy efficiency programs. The selected case study will be assessed according to common criteria oriented to identify the citizens role and the degree of partnership in delivering innovations and investments.

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This research was developed in the framework of the Project “Novel roles of regional and local authorities in supporting energy consumers’ behaviour change towards a low carbon economy – LOCARBO” led by the Province of Potenza (Italy) and funded by the EU’s European Regional Development fund through the INTERREG EUROPE, 2014–2020.

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Attolico, A. et al. (2017). Engaged Communities for Low Carbon Development Process. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2017. ICCSA 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10409. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62407-5_41

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