Showing papers by "Elizabeth Shove published in 2018"
TL;DR: In this paper, the purpose of energy efficiency is to reduce the amount of energy used and the carbon emissions associated with the design and operation of things like buildings, domes, etc.
Abstract: At first sight the purpose of energy efficiency is plain: it is to reduce the amount of energy used and the carbon emissions associated with the design and operation of things like buildings, domes...
192 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors make the case for a new and ambitious research and governance agenda for energy demand reduction, arguing that existing "demand-side" approaches focused on promoting technological efficiency and informed individual consumption are unlikely to be adequate to achieving future carbon emissions reduction goals.
74 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, four forms of intersection are elaborated: co-constitution, adaptation and threading through, historical layering, and coexisting configurations, which are used to illustrate complex and often ambiguous processes through which infrastructures interact.
44 citations
17 Sep 2018
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the interdependence between infrastructures and the practices of daily life and present a new understanding of how resource-intensive forms of consumption and energy demand have come about and what is needed to move towards a more sustainable lower carbon future.
Abstract: Book synopsis: Infrastructures in practice shows how infrastructures and daily life shape each other. Power grids, roads and broadband make modern lifestyles possible – at the same time, their design and day-to-day operation depends on what people do at home and at work. This volume investigates the entanglement of supply and demand. It explains how standards and 'normal' ways of living have changed over time and how infrastructures have changed with them. Studies of grid expansion and disruption, heating systems, the internet, urban planning and office standards, smart meters and demand management reveal this dynamic interdependence.
This is the first book to examine the interdependence between infrastructures and the practices of daily life. It offers an analysis of how new technologies, lifestyles and standards become normalised and fall out of use. It brings together diverse disciplines – history, sociology, science studies – to develop social theories and accounts of how infrastructures and practices constitute each other at different scales and over time. It shows how networks and demands are steered and shaped, and how social and political visions are woven into infrastructures, past, present and future.
Original, wide-ranging and theoretically informed, this book puts the many practices of daily life back into the study of infrastructures. The result is a fresh understanding of how resource-intensive forms of consumption and energy demand have come about and what is needed to move towards a more sustainable lower carbon future.
34 citations
17 Sep 2018
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01 May 2018
TL;DR: In this article, the authors bring together DEMAND research on the social-temporal ordering of what people do and consider the implications of this work for demand management and for efforts to develop more flexible energy systems.
Abstract: The timing of energy demand is increasingly important given the pressure to decarbonise energy systems, accommodate more intermittent forms of renewable energy supply and reduce peak load. In the transport sector, rush hours and periods of congestion present problems of their own also related to the synchronisation and the sequencing of social practices. This document brings together DEMAND research on the social-temporal ordering of what people do and considers the implications of this work for ‘demand management’ and for efforts to develop more flexible energy systems
11 citations
TL;DR: Insight is provided into the role that market standards play in energy demand in the non-domestic (office) sector, through an examination of ten case studies of speculative office developments in London.
Abstract: Building standards, regulations and labelling schemes are instruments for reducing energy demand and carbon emissions, linking policy ambitions to market-based responses. In practice, their effects...
10 citations
17 Sep 2018
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16 Jan 2018
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17 Sep 2018
1 citations