Religiosity is an extensive and multidimensional area of analysis for social scientists. Faith and religion are an element of social life and shape many of its mechanisms: they influence axionormat...

Marta Błąd; Piotr Kaczmarek. The Roles of Religion in Building Resilience among Rural Inhabitants: Evidence from a Case Study in Poland. Rural Theology 2024, 1 -15.

Marta Błąd, Piotr Kaczmarek. The Roles of Religion in Building Resilience among Rural Inhabitants: Evidence from a Case Study in Poland. Rural Theology. 2024; ():1-15.

Marta Błąd; Piotr Kaczmarek. 2024. "The Roles of Religion in Building Resilience among Rural Inhabitants: Evidence from a Case Study in Poland." Rural Theology , no. : 1-15.

In the European Union, increasing attention is already being paid not only to the development of renewable energy sources, but also to the establishment of solutions to achieve local energy self-sufficiency while increasing the role of citizens in managing the energy they generate. This approach is expected both to have a positive impact on the environment and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, and to enhance energy security—both in economic and civic terms by, i.a., combating energy poverty. The development of local energy communities promoted in the EU is supported i.a. by energy cooperatives. These contribute to the efficient harnessing of renewable energy potential in rural and urban-rural areas, and have been developing in Poland for several years now. In their previous studies, the authors of this research paper attempted to verify the generation (number, type and capacity of installed sources) and consumption (energy demand) configurations in which an energy cooperative would be a viable solution for prosumers who might establish it. However, over the past few years, the conditions for prosumers and the method of their accounting with the electricity seller have changed radically in Poland (shift from net metering to net billing). This situation has opened up space for further research and encouraged the authors to revisit the problem of analyzing the viability of establishing energy cooperatives in relation to the rules of operation of individual prosumers. This research was carried out for three scenarios, and the horizon of the analyses conducted and described extends to 2045. The comparative analysis included energy consumers without their own generation sources, prosumers with a photovoltaic generation installation covered by the net billing model, as well as a scenario involving prosumers’ cooperation within an energy cooperative, which by law is settled in the net metering model. Conclusions from the research and simulations made it possible to confirm the claim that, despite changes in the rules of prosumer billing, developing energy independence in the energy community formula results in a significant reduction in the cost of purchasing electricity (even several times lower purchase costs in the timeframe analyzed) and can lead to a reduction in the payback time of investments in generation sources even by a factor of two. The results presented in this research paper open up space for further research. The outcomes allow us to assume that energy cooperatives—in the organizational and institutional model in Poland—are a good tool for reducing the phenomenon of energy poverty on a local scale.

Jakub Jasiński; Mariusz Kozakiewicz; Maciej Sołtysik. Analysis of the Economic Soundness and Viability of Migrating from Net Billing to Net Metering Using Energy Cooperatives. Energies 2024, 17, 1330 .

Jakub Jasiński, Mariusz Kozakiewicz, Maciej Sołtysik. Analysis of the Economic Soundness and Viability of Migrating from Net Billing to Net Metering Using Energy Cooperatives. Energies. 2024; 17 (6):1330.

Jakub Jasiński; Mariusz Kozakiewicz; Maciej Sołtysik. 2024. "Analysis of the Economic Soundness and Viability of Migrating from Net Billing to Net Metering Using Energy Cooperatives." Energies 17, no. 6: 1330.

After over 20 years of a strict moratorium on the turnover of agricultural land in Ukraine, an official market for this type of land has recently been established. The purpose of this study was to examine the functioning of the fundamental elements of this market from the moment of its introduction on 1 July 2021 until today, as well as to understand the possible directions for its further development. The analysis of the agricultural land market and the visualization of the obtained results were carried out using the PostgreSQL database, Python and SQL programming languages, and the QGIS and Metabase tools. It was found that the volume of the agricultural land market remains insignificant, as the total area of sold land during this period made up only 0.7% of the arable land area of Ukraine. Prices for land plots remained at the level of their normative monetary value and are still relatively low, which indicates the significant undercapitalization of agricultural land as a production factor. The stability of agricultural land prices under the influence of various factors also indicates their relative virtuality, which, taking into account the further lifting of restrictions on the size of land plots to be sold as of 1 January 2024, requires the use of appropriate land policy instruments in order to fully utilize the multipurpose role of land in the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, which should be based on a human-rights-based approach to rural development, food security, and land policy.

Shamil Ibatullin; Yosyp Dorosh; Oksana Sakal; Vitaliy Krupin; Roman Kharytonenko; Maria Bratinova. Agricultural Land Market in Ukraine: Challenges of Trade Liberalization and Future Land Policy Reforms. Land 2024, 13, 338 .

Shamil Ibatullin, Yosyp Dorosh, Oksana Sakal, Vitaliy Krupin, Roman Kharytonenko, Maria Bratinova. Agricultural Land Market in Ukraine: Challenges of Trade Liberalization and Future Land Policy Reforms. Land. 2024; 13 (3):338.

Shamil Ibatullin; Yosyp Dorosh; Oksana Sakal; Vitaliy Krupin; Roman Kharytonenko; Maria Bratinova. 2024. "Agricultural Land Market in Ukraine: Challenges of Trade Liberalization and Future Land Policy Reforms." Land 13, no. 3: 338.