Contributing about 40% of the world's annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the
building industry is tasked with reducing its energy consumption and its carbon footprint in …

Age is an important proxy for many life course trajectories, and has complex and
understudied relationships with energy consumption. We evaluated the presence and the …

This paper intends to examine the key drivers of household environmental attitudes and
energy-saving behavior using both observed and stated attitudinal factors. Beginning with …

About a quarter of French energy demand is for residential use. This study mobilises a
multidisciplinary approach and a non-linear modeling strategy to examine the total, direct …

Material production accounts for 23% of all greenhouse gas emissions. More efficient use of
materials—through decoupling of services that support human well‐being from material use …

Household sector is the second largest energy consumption sector after industrial sector.
With the increasing popularity of the Internet, empirical studies based on large-scale …

Income, housing unit size, number of appliances owned and other components of socio-
economic status (SES), are variables generally considered to influence residential energy …

Extensive research demonstrates the importance of user practices in understanding
variations in residential heating demand. Whereas previous studies have investigated …

Technological progress is frequently prioritized to resolve the contradiction between large
resource consumption and rapid economic growth. However, in previous energy literature, it …

The aim of this research is to understand the impact of preference heterogeneity in
explaining energy consumption in French homes. Using a discrete-continuous model and …