Not irrational but habitual: The importance of "behavioural lock-in" in energy consumption

By Kevin Maréchal. 2010

246 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Marketing

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In Applied Psychology

1. Simonetta Longhi
2. Thomas Bauwens
3. C. Michael Hall
4. T. Foxon

In Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

1. Simonetta Longhi
2. Thomas Bauwens
3. Marko P. Hekkert
4. C. Michael Hall
5. Nicoletta Corrocher
6. T. Foxon
7. Grazia Cecere

In Marketing

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2. Simonetta Longhi
3. Thomas Bauwens
4. Cédric Gossart
5. Marko P. Hekkert
6. C. Michael Hall
7. Nicoletta Corrocher
8. T. Foxon

Citations in the corpus

• A coevolutionary framework for analysing a transition to a sustainable low carbon economy (2011, background): “Insights from behavioural economics on the bounded rationality and habitual behaviour of economic actors have recently informed ecological economic thinking (Manner and Gowdy, 2010; Marechal, 2010).”
• Lock-in and path dependence: an evolutionary approach to eco-innovations (2014, background): “Maréchal (2010) shows that, in the case of energy consumption patterns, habits could be a source of lock-in, but that they can be overcome by the joint use of feedbacks and commitment strategies that disturb people’s context.”
• Circular futures: What Will They Look Like? (2020, background): “…“interrelated components connected in a network or infrastructure that includes physical, social and informational elements and that thus involves technology, science, regulation, user practices, markets, cultural meaning, infrastructure, production and supply networks” (Maréchal, 2010, p. 1105).”
• Residential energy expenditures and the relevance of changes in household circumstances (2015, background): “After all, habits are more likely to change when circumstances change (Clark et al., 2014; Maréchal, 2010).”
• Energy saving in Swedish households. The (relative) importance of environmental attitudes (2011, unknown): “(Maréchal, 2010:1112).”
• Framing behavioural approaches to understanding and governing sustainable tourism consumption: beyond neoliberalism, “nudging” and “green growth”? (2013, background): “…socio-technical system of provision has been recognised as a major constraint to emissions reduction and avoidance of dangerous climate change (Maréchal, 2007, 2010), except perhaps by those that believe in and promote the neoliberal, technocentric and ecological modernisation values…”