Energy and behaviour : towards a low carbon future

Energy and behaviour towards a low carbon future

Approx.527 pages Approx.527 pages.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Lopes, Marta, editor (editor), Antunes, Carlos, editor, Janda, Kathryn, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London, England : Academic Press [2020]
Materias:
Energy consumption > Environmental aspects.
Energy consumption > Technological innovations.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • Energy and Behaviour: Towards a Low Carbon Future
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • Contributors
  • Foreword
  • References
  • Chapter 1 Energy and behaviour: Challenges of a low-carbon future
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The role of energy and behaviour in moving towards a low-carbon future
  • 2.1 A brief history of energy and behaviour
  • 2.1.1 The PTEM and its limitations
  • 2.1.2 Individualisation and a counterpoint
  • 2.2 Contributions to the literature
  • 3 A guided tour to the book
  • 3.1 Part I-Understanding energy behaviour: Disciplinary approaches and beyond
  • 3.2 Part II-Energy behaviour across sectors
  • 3.3 Part III-Modelling energy behaviour
  • 3.4 Part IV-Promoting behaviour change
  • 4 Conclusions and next steps
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Part 1: Understanding energy behaviour: Disciplinary approaches and beyond
  • Chapter 1.1 Psychology and energy conservation: Contributions from theory and practice
  • 1 Introduction: What can psychology contribute to energy research?
  • 2 Explaining energy conservation behaviours
  • 3 Design and evaluate interventions to change behaviour
  • 3.1 Design of intervention research
  • 3.2 Types of interventions
  • 4 Drivers of technology adoption
  • 5 Public acceptance of infrastructure and policies
  • 6 Psychology's contributions to energy research in interdisciplinary settings
  • 7 Further research: What are next steps?
  • References
  • Further reading
  • Chapter 1.2 Behavioural economics for energy and climate change policies and the transition to a sustainable energy use-A S...
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Behavioural economics for energy use and climate mitigation
  • 2.1 Basic concepts and foundations
  • 2.2 Applications in the field of sustainable energy use and climate action: A snapshot.
  • 3 Policies for sustainable energy use and decarbonisation in Scandinavia
  • 3.1 Energy use and carbon emissions: Do we need further policy interventions?
  • 3.2 Policy portfolios: Development and focus
  • 4 Case studies
  • 4.1 Untangling the drivers of solar PV adoption
  • 4.2 Exploring payment mechanisms and their effects on willingness to pay for carbon emission reductions
  • 4.3 Analysing personal carbon trading via an agent-based model
  • 4.4 Investigating salient loss aversion via smart metering
  • 5 Policy implications
  • 6 Conclusions
  • References
  • Further reading
  • Chapter 1.3 Beyond energy behaviour: A broader way to see people for climate change technology planning
  • 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Climate change is a different energy problem than energy efficiency
  • 2 From technology to people and back again
  • 2.1 Learning from history: Technologies to systems
  • 2.2 Technologies as social and society as technological
  • 2.3 Climate change and technological change beyond a behaviour vantage point
  • 2.4 Behaviour in the energy efficiency world
  • 2.5 Behaviour change movement
  • 2.6 Social science ambivalence
  • 2.7 Thinking in social science terms about people and technologies
  • 2.8 The realm of quasiproblems
  • 3 From behaviour to people in practice
  • 3.1 Reasonable protests
  • 3.2 Vocabulary and other tools
  • 3.3 Multi-, trans-, and interdisciplinary approaches and beyond
  • 3.4 Bigger questions, alternative approaches
  • 4 Conclusions
  • References
  • Chapter 2.1 Resource-efficient nondomestic buildings: Intertwining behaviour and technology
  • 1 Perspective on the life-cycle path of buildings
  • 2 Main factors affecting the energy performance of nondomestic buildings: Focus on occupant behavioural issues
  • 2.1 Paths to the diagnosis of behavioural influence on buildings energy performance.
  • 2.2 The role of management decisions and middle-out agents in building performance
  • 3 The role of existing building automation and control systems
  • 4 Challenges of human-technology interaction
  • 5 Human-building interaction
  • 5.1 Human-building interaction and highly efficient buildings
  • 5.2 User-centred human-building interaction
  • 5.3 Building automation and control system
  • 5.4 Operation and maintenance, facilities management
  • 5.5 A holistic view of human-building interaction
  • 6 Conclusion
  • Acknowledgement
  • References
  • Part 2: Energy behaviour across sectors
  • Chapter 2.2 The challenge of improving energy efficiency in the building sector: Taking an in-depth look at decision-making...
  • 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Investments in energy-efficient measures and technologies in the building sector in Germany
  • 1.2 Enablers and barriers to energy-efficient refurbishment investments in the building sector
  • 1.3 EE refurbishment decision-making in the building sector
  • 2 Research approach
  • 2.1 Residential buildings
  • 2.1.1 Research design and interview structure
  • 2.1.2 Sample
  • 2.2 Nonresidential buildings
  • 2.2.1 Research design and interview structure
  • 2.2.2 Sample
  • 3 Results
  • 3.1 Decision-making process model
  • 3.1.1 Residential buildings
  • 3.1.1.1 Refurbishment need
  • 3.1.1.2 Information search
  • 3.1.1.3 Consultation/planning
  • 3.1.1.4 Decision
  • 3.1.2 Nonresidential buildings
  • 3.1.2.1 Occasions and agenda setting
  • 3.1.2.2 Convincing motivations and actors
  • 3.2 Types and impact of intermediaries on the EE refurbishment decision-making process
  • 3.2.1 Residential buildings
  • 3.2.2 Nonresidential buildings
  • 4 Discussion and implications
  • 4.1 The decision-making process for investments in EE refurbishment
  • 4.2 Impact of intermediaries on EE refurbishment decision-making.
  • 5 Policy implications and future research
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Further reading
  • Chapter 2.3 Reframing energy efficiency in industry: A discussion of definitions, rationales, and management practices
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Improved efficiency in industry requires an interdisciplinary approach
  • 3 Energy efficiency in industry in a technoeconomic framing
  • 4 Energy management in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
  • 4.1 Energy audits: A first step to introduce an energy efficiency strategy
  • 4.2 Energy management is important for improving energy efficiency in SMEs
  • 5 Broadening the view of energy efficiency in SMEs by Aristotle's three forms of knowledge
  • 6 'Lifestyle' categorisation of companies
  • 6.1 The ignorant company
  • 6.2 The implementer of easy measures
  • 6.3 The economically interested company
  • 6.4 The innovative environmentalist
  • 7 Embedded decision-making and situated action
  • 8 Discussion: Combining different perspectives for successful energy management
  • 9 Conclusions
  • References
  • Further reading
  • Chapter 2.4 What do we know about the role the human dimension plays in shaping a sustainable low-carbon transport transition?
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Energy use for transport and sustainability
  • 2.1 Human dimensions and their significance to energy for transport
  • 2.2 Attending the human dimensions in transport transition managing cobenefits
  • 3 Changing conditions affecting the energy demand for transport
  • 3.1 Changing fuels and vehicles
  • 3.2 Changing behaviour: Carrots, sticks, and rebounds
  • 3.2.1 Fiscal instruments
  • 3.2.2 Fuel taxes
  • 3.2.3 Differentiated vehicle tax
  • 3.2.4 Registration taxes
  • 3.2.5 Parking management
  • 3.2.6 Registration management
  • 3.2.7 Rebound effects and strategies to address them
  • 3.3 Changing behaviour: From solo driving to sharing.
  • 3.4 Changing the system: Intelligent transport approaches
  • 3.4.1 Mobility as a service: Improving mass mobility
  • 3.4.2 Taking humans out with automatisation
  • 3.5 Changing the city: Moving people safely on a low-carbon budget
  • 3.5.1 Sustainable urban mobility planning
  • 3.5.2 Integrated urban planning
  • 3.5.3 Low emission zones
  • 3.5.4 Road user charging
  • 3.5.5 Moving people supporting walking and cycling
  • 3.5.6 Social innovation to promote sustainable mobility: How does it work?
  • 3.5.7 Public transport infrastructure, operation and vehicles
  • 4 Harnessing stakeholder's synergies
  • 5 Conclusions
  • References
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 2.5 The impact of the institutional context on the potential contribution of new business models to democratising t...
  • 1 Introduction: The incumbent energy system in transition
  • 1.1 Technological and institutional lock-ins
  • 1.2 Community energy: Against all odds?
  • 1.3 Conceptual approach, main questions
  • 1.4 Method
  • 1.5 Reader's guide
  • 2 cVPPs, community energy projects and the community logic
  • 2.1 Community virtual power plants
  • 2.2 Community energy projects and community logic
  • 2.3 Introducing the two cases
  • 2.3.1 cVPP in Loenen (Netherlands)
  • 2.3.2 cVPP in Ireland: Templederry wind farm and community power
  • 3 Business models for more decentralised community-based energy systems
  • 3.1 The move to more user-centred business models in the energy sector
  • 3.2 Community logic-informed business models
  • 3.2.1 Value proposition
  • 3.2.2 Main activities
  • 3.2.3 Resources
  • 3.2.4 Customer segment
  • 3.2.5 Relations
  • 3.2.6 Channels
  • 3.2.7 Partners
  • 3.2.8 Costs
  • 3.2.9 Revenues
  • 4 The shaping of cVPP business models by the institutional context
  • 4.1 Local energy supply only is not allowed because of balancing and settlement codes.
  • 4.2 Electricity balancing and settlement code.

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