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Transitions in Energy Efficiency and Demand: The Emergence, Diffusion and Impact of Low-Carbon Innovation book cover

1st Edition

Transitions in Energy Efficiency and Demand The Emergence, Diffusion and Impact of Low-Carbon Innovation

Edited By Kirsten E.H. Jenkins, Debbie Hopkins Copyright 2019
300 Pages
by Routledge

300 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781351127264, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.  Meeting the goals enshrined in the Paris Agreement and limiting global temperature increases to less than 2°C above pre-industrial levels demands rapid reductions in global... Read more

List of Figures



List of Tables



Preface



List of Contributors



1. Introduction: New directions in energy demand research



Kirsten E. H. Jenkins, Steven Sorrell, Debbie Hopkins and Cameron Roberts



Part 1: Analytical perspectives



2. Of emergence, diffusion and impact: A sociotechnical perspective on researching energy demand



Frank W. Geels, Benjamin K. Sovacool and Steven Sorrell



3. A normative approach to transitions in energy demand: An energy justice and fuel poverty case study



Kirsten E. H. Jenkins and Mari Martiskainen



Part 2: The emergence and diffusion of innovations



4. Electric vehicles and the future of personal mobility in the United Kingdom



Noam Bergman



5. Experimentation with vehicle automation
Debbie Hopkins and Tim Schwanen



6. The United Kingdom smart meter rollout through an energy justice lens



Kirsten E. H. Jenkins, Benjamin K. Sovacool and Sabine Hielscher



7. Overcoming the systemic challenges of retrofitting residential buildings in the United Kingdom, A herculean task?



Donal Brown, Paula Kivimaa, Jan Rosenow and Mari Martiskainen



Part 3: Societal impacts and co-benefits
8. Exergy economics: New insights into energy consumption and economic growth Paul Brockway, Steve Sorrell, Tim Foxon and Jack Miller



9. Energy saving innovations and economy wide rebound effects



Gioele Figus, Karen Turner and Antonios Katris



Part 4: Policy mixes and implications



10. Political acceleration of sociotechnical transitions: Lessons from four historical case studies



Cameron Roberts and Frank W. Geels



11. The challenge of effective energy efficiency policy in the United Kingdom



Janette Webb



12. Policy mixes for sustainable energy transitions: The case of energy efficiency



Florian Kern, Paula Kivimaa, Karoline Rogge and Jan Rosenow



13. Managing energy and climate transitions in theory and practice: A critical systematic review of Strategic Niche Management



Kirsten E. H. Jenkins and Benjamin K. Sovacool



Part 5: Conclusion



14. Conclusions: towards systematic reductions in energy demand



Kirsten E. H. Jenkins, Debbie Hopkins and Cameron Roberts



Index

Biography

Kirsten E. H. Jenkins is a Lecturer in Human Geography and Sustainable Development within the School of Environment and Technology, University of Brighton, UK.



Debbie Hopkins is jointly appointed by the Transport Studies Unit and the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford (UK) as a Departmental Research Lecturer.





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