[HTML][HTML] Policies for energy conservation and sufficiency: Review of existing policies and recommendations for new and effective policies in OECD countries

P Bertoldi - Energy and Buildings, 2022 - Elsevier
There is a strong consent among scholars and policy makers that limiting current global
energy demand and gradually reducing it towards a sustainable level of consumption is a …

[HTML][HTML] The limits of energy sufficiency: A review of the evidence for rebound effects and negative spillovers from behavioural change

S Sorrell, B Gatersleben, A Druckman - Energy Research & Social Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract 'Energy sufficiency'involves reducing consumption of energy services in order to
minimise the associated environmental impacts. This may either be through individual …

A systematic review of building energy sufficiency towards energy and climate targets

S Hu, X Zhou, D Yan, F Guo, T Hong, Y Jiang - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2023 - Elsevier
Among the sufficiency, efficiency, and renewable frameworks for reducing energy use and
energy-related carbon emissions, Building Energy Sufficiency (BES) is gaining attention …

What is wrong with energy efficiency?

E Shove - Building Research & Information, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
At first sight the purpose of energy efficiency is plain: it is to reduce the amount of energy
used and the carbon emissions associated with the design and operation of things like …

[HTML][HTML] Mind the gap: A social sciences review of energy efficiency

T Dunlop - Energy Research & Social Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Energy efficiency is a complex concept which is represented in diverse fields including
engineering, economics, energy, computer sciences, environmental sciences, mathematics …

Energy sufficiency through social innovation in housing

S Lorek, JH Spangenberg - Energy Policy, 2019 - Elsevier
Experience shows that energy savings through energy efficiency measures are partly
compensated by income growth, and partly by rebound effects. Therefore to be effective …

Investigating pathways to a net-zero emissions building sector in the European Union: what role for the energy efficiency first principle?

T Mandel, L Kranzl, E Popovski, F Sensfuß, A Müller… - Energy Efficiency, 2023 - Springer
European Union (EU) legislation is increasingly embracing the energy efficiency first (EE1st)
principle. This principle seeks to prioritise energy efficiency measures whenever these …

An agenda for future Social Sciences and Humanities research on energy efficiency: 100 priority research questions

C Foulds, S Royston, T Berker, E Nakopoulou… - Humanities and social …, 2022 - nature.com
Decades of techno-economic energy policymaking and research have meant evidence from
the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH)—including critical reflections on what changing …

Energy-sufficiency for a just transition: a systematic review

MJ Burke - Energies, 2020 - mdpi.com
Efforts to achieve an energy transition often neglect to account for the levelling of benefits
realizable with higher levels of energy use, despite knowledge of a saturation effect and …

Sufficiency policy: A definition, conceptual framework, and application to municipalities

T Iten, I Seidl, M Pütz - Sustainability Science, 2024 - Springer
Compared to the prevailing sustainability strategies of efficiency and consistency, sufficiency
is poorly represented both in scientific literature and in political debate but has increasingly …