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The Legacy of Twenty Years of Energy Demand Management: we know more about Individual Behaviour but next to Nothing about Demand

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Society, Behaviour, and Climate Change Mitigation

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5. Conclusions

Our intention in the paper has been to explore a new approach to the science of energy demand: one which adequately accounts for the actors, institutions and networks which contribute to change; which re-envisions the object of inquiry as the services which energy provides; and which is equipped to understand change. This new approach would not obviate the individual, nor research intended to track changes in how individual consumers think and act; it would, however, recast demand as the result of interactions in the social, cultural and technical contexts in which individual lives are played out.

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  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley, California, USA

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Wilhite, H., Shove, E., Lutzenhiser, L., Kempton, W. (2000). The Legacy of Twenty Years of Energy Demand Management: we know more about Individual Behaviour but next to Nothing about Demand. In: Jochem, E., Sathaye, J., Bouille, D. (eds) Society, Behaviour, and Climate Change Mitigation. Advances in Global Change Research, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48160-X_4

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