Energy Fables: Challenging Ideas in the Energy Sector

Author:   Jenny Rinkinen ,  Elizabeth Shove (Lancaster University, UK) ,  Jacopo Torriti
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780367027797


Pages:   130
Publication Date:   23 May 2019
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Jenny Rinkinen ,  Elizabeth Shove (Lancaster University, UK) ,  Jacopo Torriti
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.186kg
ISBN:  

9780367027797


ISBN 10:   0367027798
Pages:   130
Publication Date:   23 May 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction Part I. What is energy for? 2. Energy Demand 3. Energy Services Part II. Characteristics 4. Energy Efficiency 5. Rebound 6. Elasticity Part III. Injunctions 7. Low Hanging Fruit 8. Keeping the Lights on 9. Promoting Smart Homes Part IV. Policies 10. The Energy Trilemma 11. Flexibility 12. Non-Energy Policy 13. Postscript: Can Energy Researchers and Policy Makers Change their Spots?

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Story-telling helps people understand their place in the world, from the campfire to climate change's Talanoa Dialogue. This volume will aid everyone's understanding of the stories and phrases that people use to navigate the complex landscape of energy demand. -- Jim Skea, Professor of Sustainable Energy, Imperial College London, UK This book is essential reading for policy makers who think they can solve climate change by promoting energy efficiency and adding more renewable energy sources. Energy Fables shows that energy demand should be the main topic of research and policy intervention. -- Kris De Decker, Low-tech Magazine, Spain Energy Fables provides a challenge to the way we think about energy. Some contributions will doubtless be controversial, but the sustained focus on how energy is used and the social construction of energy demand is thought-provoking and welcome. -- Nick Eyre, Director of the Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions, UK


"""Story-telling helps people understand their place in the world, from the campfire to climate change’s Talanoa Dialogue. This volume will aid everyone’s understanding of the stories and phrases that people use to navigate the complex landscape of energy demand."" -- Jim Skea, Professor of Sustainable Energy, Imperial College London, UK ""This book is essential reading for policy makers who think they can solve climate change by promoting energy efficiency and adding more renewable energy sources. Energy Fables shows that energy demand should be the main topic of research and policy intervention."" -- Kris De Decker, Low-tech Magazine, Spain ""Energy Fables provides a challenge to the way we think about energy. Some contributions will doubtless be controversial, but the sustained focus on how energy is used and the social construction of energy demand is thought-provoking and welcome."" -- Nick Eyre, Director of the Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions, UK ""While acknowledging these difficulties, this book takes an important step in encouraging more open conversations about the conflicts these fables highlight and the possibilities for adapting energy work to new scientific and practical challenges and possibilities."" -- Mithra Moezzi, Buildings & Cities"


Story-telling helps people understand their place in the world, from the campfire to climate change's Talanoa Dialogue. This volume will aid everyone's understanding of the stories and phrases that people use to navigate the complex landscape of energy demand. -- Jim Skea, Professor of Sustainable Energy, Imperial College London, UK This book is essential reading for policy makers who think they can solve climate change by promoting energy efficiency and adding more renewable energy sources. Energy Fables shows that energy demand should be the main topic of research and policy intervention. -- Kris De Decker, Low-tech Magazine, Spain Energy Fables provides a challenge to the way we think about energy. Some contributions will doubtless be controversial, but the sustained focus on how energy is used and the social construction of energy demand, is thought-provoking and welcome. -- Nick Eyre, Director of the Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions, UK


Author Information

Jenny Rinkinen is a Researcher in the Centre for Consumer Society Research at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Elizabeth Shove is a Professor in the Department of Sociology, Lancaster University, UK, and was PI of the DEMAND Research Center. She is the author/editor of numerous titles, including The Nexus of Practices: Connections, Constellations, Practitioners (Routledge, 2017, with Allison Hui and Theodore Schatzki) and Sustainable Practices: Social Theory and Climate Change (Routledge, 2013, with Nicola Spurling). Jacopo Torriti is Professor of Energy Economics and Policy in the School of the Built Environment, University of Reading, UK, and author of Peak Energy Demand and Demand Side Response (Routledge, 2016).

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