As power systems evolve towards integrating higher shares of renewables, the demand for additional levels flexibility is increased. Meanwhile, o-ther energy consuming sectors, such as transport and heating, could provide when they move from fossil fuels to electricity. In this paper, impact a range measures assessed island system Ireland, with high share renewable energy, particularly wind sola...

The health of women impacts on the health of the family and society, and so is critical for national development, and this is certainly so in Ghana. As in other cultures, socio-cultural, economic and biological factors impact on the health of Ghanaian women. Specific health interventions have focused on nutrition, reproductive health and family planning. Multi-sectoral approaches to promoting e...

3.3.3 The country adopted multi-sectoral, multipronged strategy to combat these problems and to improve the nutritional status of the population. Article 47 of the Constitution of India states that "the State shall regard raising the level of nutrition and standard of living of its people and improvement in public health among its primary duties". Successive Five-Year Plans laid down the polici...

Water resources are one of the limiting factors of regional development around the Eastern and Southern Mediterranean. Scarcity and conflict, but also considerable uncertainty, inter-annual variability, and simple lack of reliable data characterize the problems of water resource management in many countries and river basins. Within the EU sponsored international RTD project OPTIMA a water resou...

Over 70% of the population in India lives in the rural areas of the country. The needs of this vast population, subsistence or otherwise (livelihood related), have been addressed by several programmes and initiatives guided by central or state policies. The policies or ensuing programmes have, however, been sectoral—planned and managed by specific ministries or departments. Energy too has been ...

Carbon footprints have been widely employed as an indicator for total carbon dioxide released by human activities. In this paper, we implemented a multi-regional input-output framework to evaluate the carbon footprints and embodied carbon flows for the eight regions of China from consumption-based perspective. It is found that the construction, electricity/stream supply, and machine manufacturi...

• A coevolutionary approach can help making sense of transitions as a multi-sectoral process that is spatially embedded. Main path analysis shows increased centrality electric vehicle patents for battery inventions and smart grid ones. By accounting invention production we clarify power dynamics in transitions, technology varies. Patent co-location provide clues to where through what networks i...