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CALL FOR PAPERS - Governance strategies and insights to accelerate the production and diffusion of hydrogen and fuel-cell technologies
Convenors: Gregory Trencher, Araz Taeihagh, Andrew Chapman, Tohoku University, National University of Singapore, and International Institute for Carbon Neutral Energy
As the energy transition to a post-carbon society gathers pace, renewable energy, batteries, and battery electric vehicles are rapidly diffusing while improving considerably in cost and performance. Thus, for many, hydrogen has slipped from the field of attention. Yet hydrogen and fuel-cells can play (and are already playing) an important role in accelerating the electrification and decarbonisation of transport, industry, and households. This is especially so for long-range or heavy-duty vehicles, long-term and long-distance energy storage, and difficult to decarbonise sectors like steel, chemicals, and heat production.
With hydrogen and fuel-cell technologies rapidly developing and diffusing around the world, it is time to take stock of this situation and consider:
What governance strategies are being used to accelerate the production and diffusion of hydrogen and fuel-cell technologies?
How are countries or regions using hydrogen and fuel-cells to accelerate the decarbonisation of transport (e.g. road and maritime) in particular, but also industry and households?
How are countries or regions using hydrogen and fuel-cells to support the upscaling of renewable energies?
What trends and planning insights can help us to understand how hydrogen and fuel-cells can help accelerate the transition to a post-carbon world?
The Call for Papers is open to all disciplines, approaches and perspectives and we welcome theoretical and empirical papers using diverse qualitative and quantitative methods and approaches to the topics listed above as well as upon other relevant issues related to the subject.
We invite colleagues to submit your manuscript to the journal no later than January 10, 2021. More info at https://www.mdpi.com/si/45546
Keywords: Hydrogen, Fuel cells, Policy, Governance, Diffusion, Infrastructure, Vehicles, Decarbonization, Energy storage and transmission, Energy Vector
Call for Papers: Special Issue "The Governance of Sustainable Cities and Innovative Transport"
Around the world, much is expected of sustainable urbanization. The idea that comfortable life with all basic amenities and more, that also preserves the environment is simply too alluring to refuse. Concepts such as sustainable cities, eco cities, low carbon cities, intelligent cities, smart cities, resilient cities, knowledge cities and compact cities all respond to this hope, but they offer little more than fairly hazy perspectives. When it comes to urban mobility, this begs the question which modern and innovative options do smart sustainable cities offer for their integrated transport systems? How are they governed and organized, which solutions do they adopt in terms of their infrastructure and rolling stock? What promising technologies and information systems do they utilize now or are they proposing for their future and how do they deal with them? And finally, how truly sustainable, low carbon and ecologically friendly are they and will they be in the coming decades?
It is these and similar questions which a new special issue of ‘Energies’ is aiming to address. An international team of three scholars, Martin de Jong (TU-Delft), Araz Taeihagh (Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore) and Rui Mu (Dalian University of Technology) invites their peers around the world to contribute high-quality articles on these pertinent topics. They will organize the issue around the urban governance of the following themes: (1) Urban and transport concepts and systems, (2) Innovative technologies and technical solutions, and (3) Innovative and sustainable structures and processes.
Prof. Dr. Martin de Jong
Prof. Araz Taeihagh
Prof. Rui Mu
Special Issue Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Energies is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1500 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
Urban governance
Governance of technology
Smart eco city, Built environment
Transit Oriented Development
Low carbon mobility
Infrastructure systems
Intelligent systems
Transport technology
Published Papers
This special issue is now open for submission.
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Special Issue Editors
Prof. Dr. Martin de Jong
TPM, TU-Delft, Jaffalaan 5, 2628 BX Delft, Netherlands
Website | E-mail: w.m.dejong {at} tudelft {dot} nl
Interests: urban planning; transport planning; eco city development; public policy; governance; comparative institutional analysis; policy transfer; China
Prof. Araz Taeihagh
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. 469C Bukit Timah Road, 259772, Singapore
Website | E-mail: araz{dot} taeihagh {at} new {dot} oxon {dot} org
Interests: public policy; socio-technical systems; technology policy and governance of technology; policy design, analysis, and analytics; sustainable development; energy and transport policy
Prof. Rui Mu
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dalian University of Technology, Linggong Road 2, Ganjingzi District, Dalian, China
Website | Email: ruimu {at} dlut {dot} edu {dot} cn
Interests: public policy; transport planning; local governance; collaborative governance; China