What Is Energy For? Social Practice and Energy Demand

By Elizabeth Shove, G. Walker. 2014

675 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Pollution, Sociology and Political Science

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In Global and Planetary Change

1. Dominik Wiedenhofer
2. H. Haberl
3. S. Hall
4. Mark Davis
5. Elizabeth Shove
6. Donal Brown

In Pollution

1. S. Hall
2. Mark Davis
3. Elizabeth Shove
4. Donal Brown
5. Dominik Wiedenhofer
6. H. Haberl

In Sociology and Political Science

1. S. Hall
2. Mark Davis
3. Donal Brown
4. L. Akenji
5. Elizabeth Shove
6. Dominik Wiedenhofer
7. H. Haberl
8. K. Gram-hanssen

Citations in the corpus

• Carbon Lock-In: Types, Causes, and Policy Implications (2016, neutral): “(cid:2) Random, unintentional events affect final outcomes (cid:2) Powerful economic, social, and political actors seek to reinforce (cid:2) Institutions are designed to stabilize and lock in (cid:2) Beneficial and intended outcome for some actors”
• Household time use, carbon footprints, and urban form: a review of the potential contributions of everyday living to the 1.5 °C climate target (2018, background): “Discussion and conclusions Cities are well poised to influence household time use patterns and enable experimentation with new forms of low-carbon activities in everyday living [12,15,68,83] as an important contribution to deep decarbonization pathways [1 ,18 ,19 ,20].”
• The question of energy reduction: The problem(s) with feedback (2015, background): “Yet, such an assumption is questionable given that consumers do not use energy for its own sake but rather it emerges as a by-product of everyday activities (Shove and Walker, 2014).”
• Prosumers in the post subsidy era: an exploration of new prosumer business models in the UK (2019, background): “In addition to these technical and regulatory challenges, others have highlighted non-technical barriers to increasing prosumption, including a lack of knowledge, trust and reticence to change (Albala et al., 2018; Shove and Walker, 2014).”
• What is wrong with energy efficiency? (2018, background): “(Shove & Walker, 2014, p. 48) For these authors, and for Labanca (2017), to discuss energy, let alone energy efficiency, in the abstract is to overlook the extent of these interdependencies, and to skate over the constraining and enabling forms of what Hodder (2014) refers to as human–material…”