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
social practices
Talk: Practice-Hunting using Time Use Surveys, Mathieu Durand-Daubin, Ben Anderson
Presentation given at Behave Energy Conference, Oxford, 3-4 September 2014. Abstract: (more…)
View full post →Data Byte: Visualising sequences of demand
One of our interests is in how sequences of practices may contribute to patterns of energy demand and we are exploring a number of ways to both visualise and analyse such sequences. The image shows a visualization of a random subsample of 3000 diary days from the UK Time Use Survey 2000 in the Visual-TimePAcTS software. The diary days go from 04:00 (bottom) to 04:00 the next day (top)…
View full post →Unsustainable practices: Why electric cars are a failure of ambition
By Nicola Spurling, Lancaster University and Dan Welch, University of Manchester Originally published on Talking Climate (more…)
View full post →Theme 1 Summary: The Rhythms of Demand, Ben Anderson, Jillian Anable, Jacopo Torriti, Giulio Mattioli and Richard Hanna, January 2014
Establishing Basecamp Theme 1’s objective of conceptualising and describing the changing demand for energy within UK society is easy to say, seductively straightforward to write and, it seems, fiendishly challenging to achieve. (more…)
View full post →Talk: Timing and Synchronisation of social practices
Presentation on issues of the timing and synchronisation of social practices and the implications for energy and mobility, given at DECC, December 2013.
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