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 carbon dioxide
emissions. Reducing energy demand has a central role in achieving this goal, but existing policy initiatives have been largely incremental in terms of the technological and behavioural changes they encourage. Against this background, this book develops a sociotechnical approach to the challenge of reducing energy demand and illustrates this with a number of empirical case studies from the United Kingdom. In doing so, it explores the emergence, diffusion and impact of low-energy innovations, including electric vehicles and smart meters. The book has the dual aim of improving the academic understanding of sociotechnical transitions and energy demand and providing practical recommendations for public policy.
Combining an impressive range of contributions from key thinkers in the field, this book will be of great interest to energy students, scholars and decision-makers.
Edited by Kirsten Jenkins and Debbie Hopkins. Contributions by Steven Sorrell, Frank Geels, Benjamin Sovacool, Mari Martiskainen, Noam Bergman, Debbie Hopkins, Tim Schwanen, Kirsten Jenkins, Sabine Hielscher, Donal Brown, Paula Kivimaa, Jan Rosenow, Paul Brockway (University of Leeds), Jack Miller, Tim Foxon, Gioele Figus (Strathclyde), Karen Turner (Strathclyde), Antonios Katris (Strathclyde), Cameron Roberts, Janette Webb (University of Edinburgh), Florian Kern, Karoline Rogge.
Read more and download the chapters (the book is open access):
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780815356783
