Abstract Local energy transition initiatives – as part of a broader climate-benign and sustainability policy have become focal point future-oriented resource environmental strategies. Place-based conversion however, has turned out to be very complicated task, from both governance research perspective. The present study seeks sketch the contours local sustainable planning, with particular emphas...

Our purpose in this introductory chapter is to set the scene for the rest of the book. We shall do this by briefly tracing the historical development of the subject. There are two main reasons for this. First, we wish to recall the historical traditions which lie behind current research. It is all too easy to lose track of the past, and it is as true inmathematics as in anything else that those...

This paper examines the implications of cross-linguistic multifunctionality patterns, as described by semantic maps, in terms of mental representation, that is, to what extent these patterns tell us something about the existence of a relationship between different conceptual situations that is perceived by speakers and is arguably represented in a speaker’s mind. By conceptual situation is mean...