Understanding Demand
Influencing Demand
Policies for steering demand
Invisible energy policy
Adapting social practices
Commission on Travel Demand
How Demand Varies
Situations, Sites, Sectors
Domestic IT use
Home heating
Offices and office work
Business travel
Online shopping
Car dependence
Older people and mobile lives
Local smart grids
Cooking and cooling in Asia
Energy, Justice and Poverty
Reading Group
Reading Group: 2 July 2014
The Group discussed ‘Accomplished by methods which are indefensible’: Electric utilities, finance, and the natural barriers to accumulation, Geoforum 49 (2013) 173–183, by Conor Harrison (more…)
View full post →Reading Group: 6 May 2014
A group of ten DEMANDers discussed Habits, routines and temporalities of consumption: From individual behaviours to the reproduction of everyday practices by Dale Southerton (Time & Society 2013 22: 335-355). (more…)
View full post →Reading Group: 2 April 2014
Jan, Mike A., Joe, Nicola and Elizabeth – Richard in a noisy café for a few moments. Jan used the reading (Military emissions, armed conflicts, border changes and the Kyoto Protocol by Axel Michaelowa & Tobias Koch) (more…)
View full post →Reading Group: 4 February 2014
Our reading group discussed: "Understanding attitudes towards leisure travel and the constraints faced by senior Koreans" by Sun Hee Lee & Carmen Tideswell, Journal of Vacation Marketing 2005 11: 249. (more…)
View full post →Reading Group: 17 December 2013
On 17 December a group of us – Richard, Jan, Guilio, Alison, Elizabeth, Neil and Gordon – discussed Missing carbon reductions? Exploring rebound and backfire effects in UK households by Angela Druckman et al, (Energy Policy, 39, Issue 6, June 2011, Pages 3572–3581) (more…)
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