South Africa faces a myriad of energy-related challenges, including severe constraints in electricity supply, a rising cost of electricity to consumers, high levels of energy poverty, and a reliance on coal in both energy supply and demand sectors. These challenges exist in a context of...

Strategic energy planning models play a crucial role in facilitating well-informed decision-making processes for the energy transition. However, the limited accessibility of most energy models has led to the emergence of open-source alternatives, promoting transparency and inclusivity. In this...

Management Information Systems: Origin and evolution in the last decades -- Industry 4.0 and its impact on Management Information Systems -- Artifical Intelligence and its impact on Management Information Systems -- Enhancing the predictive capabilities of Management Information Systems --...

Land use change is continuously accelerating in the Amazon basin, intensified by road network expansion, farming, ranching, and mining activities, all major drivers of change. This pattern is expected to spread across the continent, fuelled by the economic benefits that road building provides....

Land use change is continuously accelerating in the Amazon basin, intensified by road network expansion, farming, ranching, and mining activities, all major drivers of change. This pattern is expected to spread across the continent, fuelled by the economic benefits that road building provides....

With the increasing amount of building renovations in Austria, the potential increases for replacing conventional national gas heating systems with heat pumps (HP) and thereby reduce CO2 emissions particularly when combined with solar photovoltaics (PV). The Austrian subsidization scheme for HP...

1 Introduction -- 2 The Application Field of CIB -- 3 Foundations of CIB -- 4 Analyzing Scenario Portfolios -- 5 What if… Challenges in CIB practice -- 6 Data in CIB -- 7 CIB at Work -- 8 Reflections on CIB.