Browsing by Author "Turan, Ugur"

Now showing 1 - 2 of 2

Citation - WoS: 4
Citation - Scopus: 5
Trinity on Thin Ice: Integrating Three Perspectives on the European Union's Likelihood of Achieving Energy and Climate Targets
(Elsevier Science Bv, 2018) Biresselioglu, Mehmet Efe; Demir, Muhittin Hakan; Turan, Ugur
The energy policy of the EU is established around the objectives of sustainability, competitiveness, and security of supply. These objectives are embodied in targets known as the 20-20-20. The targets concern decreasing Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG) generation, increasing the share of renewables in total energy consumption, and raising energy efficiency. This paper analyses the target achievements through Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and a classification of schemes that uses the typology derived from three sources: World Energy Council's (WEC) energy trilemma, Fragile States Index (FSI), taking a comparative perspective across countries. It uses mathematical programming, and the resulting efficiency levels reveal the effectiveness of the input parameters in terms of the policy toolbox, motivators, barriers and other economic, cultural and social factors, and the execution practices for achieving the 20-20-20 targets. These efficiency values aid policy makers addressing the process parameters towards target achievements. The results show that WEC scores and FSI performances are not direct indicators of performances in terms of target achievements. For instance, Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom were not found to be as efficient as their standings would suggest, whereas Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Malta and Romania have the highest efficiency values.
Citation - WoS: 7
Citation - Scopus: 9
Understanding the Dynamics and Conceptualization of Environmental Citizenship and Energy Citizenship: Evidence From the Existing Literature
(Frontiers Media Sa, 2022) Biresselioglu, Mehmet Efe; Demir, Muhittin Hakan; Solak, Berfu; Turan, Ugur
This study seeks to better understand the relationships between environmental citizenship, energy citizenship, and related phenomena and the theoretical development and operationalization processes of environmental citizenship and energy citizenship in the path towards the energy transition and climate change mitigation through a bibliometric analysis. Doing so first provides an overview of how these concepts are defined in the literature establishes the frameworks for environmental citizenship and energy citizenship, including the characteristics, drivers, and pathways to their operationalization. The subsequent bibliometric analysis is conducted via the VOSviewer software, with more than 1,300 titles from the Web of Science database published between 1992 and 2021. The search keywords are environmental citizenship and energy citizenship. The results from the analysis highlight the terms sustainability and behaviour as the overarching concepts and common points of discussion regarding environmental citizenship and energy citizenship. Moreover, although environmental citizenship preserves its central position in the scholarly debate, there is a shift towards the phenomenon of energy citizenship and a set of emerging themes including justice, energy democracy, and sustainable development.