Culture and low-carbon energy transitions

BK Sovacool, S Griffiths - Nature Sustainability, 2020 - nature.com
How does culture influence low-carbon energy transitions? How can insights about cultural
influences guide energy planners and policymakers trying to stimulate transitions …

[HTML][HTML] The cultural barriers to a low-carbon future: A review of six mobility and energy transitions across 28 countries

BK Sovacool, S Griffiths - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
This review focuses on how culture can complicate and impede attempts at promoting more
efficient, more sustainable, and often more affordable forms of mobility as well as energy use …

Sustainability cultures and energy research: An actor-centred interpretation of cultural theory

J Stephenson - Energy Research & Social Science, 2018 - Elsevier
The energy cultures framework has had widespread use in studies of the energy-related
implications of habitual behaviour and behaviour change, and to other topics including …

What drives the Pioneers? Applying lifestyle theory to early electric vehicle buyers in Canada

J Axsen, J Cairns, N Dusyk, S Goldberg - Energy Research & Social …, 2018 - Elsevier
Lifestyles can play an important role in shaping consumer behaviour regarding novel low-
carbon technologies. In this study, we develop a conceptual framework based on lifestyle …

Lifestyle, an integrative concept: Cross‐disciplinary insights for low‐carbon research

MD Agnew, H Pettifor, C Wilson - … Reviews: Energy and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Lifestyle change is a fundamental component of transformative pathways to net‐zero
emissions. Despite the pervasive use of 'lifestyle'as a concept, there is lack of convergence …

Opportunities and insights for reducing fossil fuel consumption by households and organizations

PC Stern, KB Janda, MA Brown, L Steg, EL Vine… - Nature Energy, 2016 - nature.com
Realizing the ambitious commitments of the 2015 Paris Climate Conference (COP21) will
require new ways of meeting human needs previously met by burning fossil fuels …

The potential contribution of disruptive low-carbon innovations to 1.5 C climate mitigation

C Wilson, H Pettifor, E Cassar, L Kerr, M Wilson - Energy Efficiency, 2019 - Springer
This paper investigates the potential for consumer-facing innovations to contribute emission
reductions for limiting warming to 1.5° C. First, we show that global integrated assessment …

[HTML][HTML] The role of culture in advancing sustainable energy policy and practice

G Goggins, H Rau, P Moran, F Fahy, J Goggins - Energy Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper offers a culturally sensitive analysis of measures to improve the energy
performance of households. Comparing and combining insights from two recent sustainable …

What role for microgeneration in a shift to a low carbon domestic energy sector in the UK?

N Bergman, N Eyre - Energy efficiency, 2011 - Springer
Domestic energy use accounts for more than a quarter of CO 2 emissions in the UK.
Traditional approaches to energy reduction look at direct emissions savings, and …

Lifestyle practices and pro-environmental technology

J Axsen, J TyreeHageman, A Lentz - Ecological Economics, 2012 - Elsevier
We explore sociological concepts of lifestyle practices as they relate to sustainable
consumption. Specifically, we investigate how and why consumers may transition toward …