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
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: 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…)
View full post →Reading Group: 12 November 2013
We discussed 'Towards a theory of decoupling: degrees of decoupling in the EU and the case of road traffic in Finland between 1970 and 2001' by Petri Tapio (Transport Policy 12 (2005) 137–151). (more…)
View full post →Reading Group: 22 October 2013
We discussed a draft of ‘What is energy for? Social practice and energy demand’ by Elizabeth and Gordon, currently submitted to theory, culture and society. (more…)
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