Promoting energy efficiency: Barriers, societal needs and policies

N Della Valle, P Bertoldi - Frontiers in Energy Research, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The Climate Change urgency requires a swift reduction of energy consumption. One way to
achieve this is through increased energy efficiency. Over the past decades, the debate on …

[КНИГА][B] Connecting practices: Large topics in society and social theory

E Shove - 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
Connecting Practices develops a distinctive method of conceptualising significant trends
and global issues including environmental sustainability and inequalities in wealth and …

Aiming for mediocrity: The case of Australian housing thermal performance

T Moore, S Berry, M Ambrose - Energy policy, 2019 - Elsevier
Concerns about climate change, energy security and energy productivity are driving
countries to improve energy and thermal efficiency of their housing. Australia established a …

Domestic 'Disposal Work'and Plastics Recycling–Unwrap** Everyday Entanglements of Practice, Roles, and Responsibilities

T Holmes, H Holmes - Sociological Research Online, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This article is about household plastics recycling in England. Rates of recycling have
stagnated across the country over the past decade. Fitting with an individualisation of …

A more-than-human perspective on understanding the performance of the built environment

S Loh, M Foth, GA Caldwell… - Architectural Science …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The ready availability and widespread deployment of IoT devices and sensors enable a high
granularity of quantitative data to be collected to give a real-time appraisal of a building's …

[HTML][HTML] OntoAgency: An agency-based ontology for tracing control, ownership and decision-making in smart buildings

CB de Souza, A Badyina, O Golubchikov - Building and Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
This article proposes an agency-based design ontology (OntoAgency) to systematically
trace the relationships between stakeholders who own, control, and decide upon the …

Roles, responsibilities and capacities: Theorizing space, social practice, and the relational constitution of energy demand in and beyond Manchester

T Holmes - Energy Research & Social Science, 2021 - Elsevier
The links between cities, energy use and supply have increasingly formed central topics of
research. Particular attention has been paid to the socio-technical dimensions of urban …

Design with voids: how inverted urbanism can increase urban resilience

R Roggema - Architectural Science Review, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper ways in which currently fashionable eco-urbanism projects that are designed to
increase the resilience of existing systems and practices contribute to a real transformation …

Following standards: a document ethnography in Chilean University Libraries

O Pilerot, F Bolaños Zarate… - Journal of …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose The aim of this study is to contribute to extended knowledge about the role of
standardization of university library operations and its consequences. Design/methodology …

[PDF][PDF] Mobilizing citizens to invest in energy efficiency

N Della Valle, P Bertoldi - EUR–Scientific and …, 2021 - publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu
Mobilising citizens to invest in energy efficiency Page 1 Mobilising citizens to invest in energy
efficiency An overview of concepts and approaches for encouraging decisions to invest in …