https://repository.cyi.ac.cy/handle/123456789/851 Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:31:54 GMT 2026-04-30T16:31:54Z https://repository.cyi.ac.cy/handle/CyI/2636 Title: Co-creating value in mountain agriculture: participatory design and ex-ante economy-wide assessment of a voluntary quality certification scheme in Cyprus Authors: Giannakis, Elias; Bruggeman, Adriana; Zoumides, Christos Abstract: Across Europe, geographical indications and voluntary quality labels are promoted as tools to valorise territorial identity and support rural development, yet evidence on the capacity of voluntary labels to generate economic effects beyond the farm level remains limited. This study examines the co-design and early piloting of a voluntary territorial certification scheme for fruit and vegetables in the Troodos Mountains of Cyprus and explores its plausible economy-wide implications. Using a participatory action research approach, farmers, rural policy makers and researchers co-produced the Troodos Mountain Agriculture label through iterative negotiation of criteria and governance arrangements. The resulting four-pillar protocol, covering mountain identity, social responsibility, food quality and safety, and environmental stewardship, operates through mandatory baselines and a flexible, points-based compliance system overseen by a farmer-led committee. Nearly 70 producers contributed to the design, and 15 participated in a two-year market pilot. To examine how certification-induced value changes might propagate through the local economy, the study constructs a regional input-output model for the Troodos Mountains, disaggregating agriculture into four farming systems. A certification-linked price premium of 5-10%, parameterised from pilot interviews and early retail placement, is modelled as an exogenous value shock. Under this ex-ante scenario, the model projects a €0.9-1.8 million increase in regional output (0.3-0.6%) and 20-39 additional jobs (0.6-1.2% of total employment), largely concentrated within farming, reflecting structural constraints and limited backward linkages. Integrating participatory co-design with ex-ante economic modelling highlights that wider development effects remain contingent on territorial economic structures and governance arrangements. Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://repository.cyi.ac.cy/handle/CyI/2636 2026-05-01T00:00:00Z https://repository.cyi.ac.cy/handle/CyI/2635 Title: COLLECTiEF dataset: A high-resolution indoor environmental dataset from European buildings across diverse climates supporting thermal, air-quality, and visual-comfort assessments Authors: Papadopoulos, Panayiotis Abstract: Indoor Environmental Quality directly affects public health, productivity, and well-being, while also playing a vital role in developing climate-neutral, energy-efficient, and resilient buildings. This paper presents a comprehensive dataset of indoor environmental parameters that affect thermal comfort, indoor air quality, and visual comfort, which was created under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Project Collective Intelligence for Energy Flexibility. The dataset comprises high-resolution measurements of carbon dioxide, pollutants, volatile organic compounds, air temperature, relative humidity, and illuminance on a horizontal plane, collected over a two-year period at 1-minute intervals. Data were gathered from 14 pilot buildings across four European climates: Cyprus, France, Italy, and Norway, covering diverse building types such as schools, medical centres, sports arenas, residential complexes, universities, and elder care facilities, representing about 40 % of common European building categories. Sensors were installed in specific thermal zones within each building to monitor environmental conditions. All data is organized by building and zone and supplemented with standardized Brick metadata to ensure interoperability. This comprehensive dataset, with its broad geographic coverage, variety of building types, long-term high-frequency measurements, and multimodal data, provides a valuable resource for comparative IEQ research, cross-domain modelling, and integrated assessments of comfort, ventilation, and daylighting across different climates and operational settings and is available upon request under a non-disclosure agreement provided by the consortium. Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://repository.cyi.ac.cy/handle/CyI/2635 2026-01-21T00:00:00Z https://repository.cyi.ac.cy/handle/CyI/2633 Title: A decade of energy-system modelling for Greece: a systematic literature review Authors: Taliotis, Constantinos Abstract: As an EU Member State, Greece has adopted increasingly ambitious climate change mitigation targets and policies, particularly following the adoption of the Paris Agreement and EU-driven ambition, with the overarching goal of achieving a net-zero economy by 2050. This study presents a systematic literature review of energy-system modelling studies for Greece published in the period 2015–2025, investigating how research teams conceptualise the Greek energy sector of the future, the modelling frameworks employed, and the methodological trends that have emerged. Our review's findings indicate that more than half of the reviewed studies rely on ad hoc models developed for single applications, notably often lacking transparency, openness, and replicability traits, and that most models identified in the reviewed literature are based on cost minimisation approaches. The review also reveals that numerous applications fail to inform longer-term planning (i.e., to cover the critical decades ahead, towards decarbonisation), regional aspects, and/or key aspects of the ever-evolving Greek energy sector, such as variable renewable energy curtailment, hydrogen production and storage, or unit dispatch, although energy storage and electricity exchange have been gaining traction. Bridging these gaps in future modelling research can be facilitated by wider adoption of open-source and well-documented modelling frameworks as well as of open science and FAIR data principles. New studies can adopt models featuring increased spatial and temporal granularity, either by enhancing existing tools or by coupling different modelling frameworks to refrain from computationally demanding approaches while still capturing the increasing complexity of the energy transition in Greece. Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://repository.cyi.ac.cy/handle/CyI/2633 2026-03-01T00:00:00Z https://repository.cyi.ac.cy/handle/CyI/2630 Title: Energy transition and regional economic growth: Spatial spillovers across the urban-rural divide Authors: Zachariadis, Theodoros; Giannakis, Elias Abstract: This study examines the role of energy consumption in regional economic growth across 1152 EU-27 NUTS-3 regions, distinguishing between renewable and fossil-based energy sources and explicitly accounting for spatial heterogeneity along the urban-rural continuum. We employ a flexible translog production function within a spatial econometric framework to capture nonlinearities, factor complementarities, and spatial interdependencies in energy-growth relationships. Bayesian model comparison decisively favours a Spatial Durbin Error Model with exponential distance-decay spatial weights, indicating that spatial dependence attenuates smoothly with geographic distance. The results reveal pronounced nonlinear and source-specific energy effects. Renewable energy exhibits a convex relationship with output, negative at low deployment but positive beyond threshold levels, highlighting the importance of scale effects. Spatial spillovers from neighbouring regions' renewable deployment show diminishing returns, suggesting potential competition for suitable sites or grid capacity constraints. Conversely, fossil energy displays a concave profile with declining marginal contributions at higher intensity. Substantial territorial heterogeneity emerges along the urban-rural hierarchy: renewable energy contributes positively to output exclusively in rural regions, while fossil energy effects are strongest in intermediate and rural regions. Moreover, renewable and fossil energy display partial complementarity rather than strict substitution, suggesting that gradual hybrid transition pathways may be economically efficient during the energy transition. These findings carry important policy implications. Renewable investments appear most productive in rural regions, supporting both decarbonisation and regional development, while urban regions can pursue ambitious emissions reductions with limited growth trade-offs. Intermediate and rural regions, however, require targeted transition support to manage continued fossil dependence. Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://repository.cyi.ac.cy/handle/CyI/2630 2026-03-01T00:00:00Z