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Understanding homeowners’ renovation decisions resulting in low carbon retrofit
Encouraging low carbon retrofit among homeowners is widely recognised as an important strategy to reduce operational energy use in dwellings and mitigate climate change. A wide range of policies with varying levels of success has been implemented in the UK in an attempt to encourage low carbon retrofit among homeowners [1]. The formulation and logic of these governmental policies assumes a narrow, technical focus on operational energy use reduction, in which achieving carbon savings in the built environment are equated to the substitution of inefficient building services with more energy efficient ones and the insulation of the building envelope [2]. However, a review of the literature suggests that low carbon retrofit should be understood not just as a technical problem, but a sociotechnical one, which accounts for a broader scope of social, economic, and sustainable dimensions [3]. There is also a lack of understanding of social aspects of a homeowner’s decision-making process resulting in a low carbon retrofit. The current research aims to contribute to building such understanding.
Understanding homeowners’ renovation decisions resulting in low carbon retrofit
Encouraging low carbon retrofit among homeowners is widely recognised as an important strategy to reduce operational energy use in dwellings and mitigate climate change. A wide range of policies with varying levels of success has been implemented in the UK in an attempt to encourage low carbon retrofit among homeowners [1]. The formulation and logic of these governmental policies assumes a narrow, technical focus on operational energy use reduction, in which achieving carbon savings in the built environment are equated to the substitution of inefficient building services with more energy efficient ones and the insulation of the building envelope [2]. However, a review of the literature suggests that low carbon retrofit should be understood not just as a technical problem, but a sociotechnical one, which accounts for a broader scope of social, economic, and sustainable dimensions [3]. There is also a lack of understanding of social aspects of a homeowner’s decision-making process resulting in a low carbon retrofit. The current research aims to contribute to building such understanding.
Understanding homeowners’ renovation decisions resulting in low carbon retrofit
Bobrova, Y (author) / Chiu, LF (author) / Papachristos, G (author)
2018-09-30
In: Proceedings of 5th European Conference on Behaviour and Energy Efficiency - BEHAVE 2018. Zurich University of Applied Sciences: Zurich, Switzerland. (2018) (In press).
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Electronic Resource
English
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690
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