
Energy and Behaviour
Towards a Low Carbon Future
Description
Key Features
- Introduces the major disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to understanding energy and behaviour
- Delivers a cross-sectoral overview including energy behaviour in buildings, industry, transportation, smart grids, and smart cities
- Reviews a selection of innovative energy behaviour modelling approaches, including agent-based modelling, optimization, and decision support
- Critically addresses the importance of interventions, policies, and regulatory design
Readership
This book is written for researchers and practitioners interested in human, social, and organisational behaviour in energy systems and policies, particularly as related to energy efficiency. It provides evidence and insights on behavioural change policies and programmes useful for academic researchers, energy policy makers, utility professionals, and consultants involved in energy policy research, design and implementation. It is designed to serve as both a primer for new entrants in the energy and behaviour field and a critical resource for students, policy makers, and practitioners.
Table of Contents
1. Energy and behaviour: Challenges of a low-carbon future
PART 1: Understanding energy behaviour: Disciplinary approaches and beyond
1.1 Psychology and energy conservation: Contributions from theory and practice
1.2 Behavioural economics for energy and climate change policies and the transition to a sustainable energy use - A Scandinavian perspective
1.3 Beyond energy behaviour: A broader way to see people for climate change technology planningPart 2: Energy behaviour across sectors
2.1 Resource-efficient nondomestic buildings: Intertwining behaviours and technology
2.2 The challenge of improving energy efficiency in the building sector: Taking an in-depth look at decision-making on investments in energy-efficient refurbishments
2.3 Reframing energy efficiency in industry: A discussion of definitions, rationales and management practices
2.4 What do we know about the role the human dimension plays in shaping a sustainable low-carbon transport transition?
2.5 The impact of the institutional context on the potential contribution of new business models to democratizing the energy system
2.6 Energy, human activity, and knowledge: Addressing smart city challengesPART 3 - Modelling energy behaviour
3.1 Energy and enjoyment: The value of household electricity consumption
3.2 Developing quantitative insights on building occupant behaviour: Supporting modelling tools and datasets
3.3 Agent-based modelling of the social dynamics of energy end use
3.4 Preference elicitation approaches for energy decisionsPART 4 - Promoting behaviour change
4.1 A critical review of energy behaviour change: The influence of context.
4.2 Urban low-carbon futures: Results from real-world lab experiment in Berlin
4.3 Overview of the European Union policies to promote more sustainable behaviours in energy end-users
4.4. A brief history of behaviour in US energy programs: Landscape, integration, and future opportunities
Product details
- No. of pages: 558
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2019
- Published: November 1, 2019
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128185681
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128185674
About the Editors
Marta Lopes
Affiliations and Expertise
Carlos Henggeler Antunes
Affiliations and Expertise
Kathryn B. Janda
Affiliations and Expertise
Ratings and Reviews
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John o. Mon Dec 02 2019
Energy and human Behavior
Just reading the theme and the abstract already gives me the chills! I find the relations concerning human behavior and energy efficiency ideals through interactions with energy services a critical concern that must be considered on all levels especially where policy, science and technology intersects! This must be even a good read beyond the summaries. Well done