Making the home consume less – Putting energy efficiency on the refurbishment agenda
- Private home owners can reduce their energy use significantly and move towards a low carbon lifestyle by retrofitting their homes in an energy efficient standard. Despite high awareness for energy efficiency and rising energy prices, home owners only slowly take this opportunity to cut down their personal energy use and carbon emission significantly. In many cases, maintenance and repair activities only result in incremental improvements of energy efficiency. Thus, the dynamics of refurbishment seems to have a conservative bias. Against this background, we will present results from an empirical survey, focussing on home owners' maintenance and refurbishment decisions. Drawing on approaches from social-psychology, lifestyle analysis and evolutionary economics, we will explore the impact of attitudes, lifestyle orientations, cognitive frameworks and social resources on refurbishment decision especially on energy efficient ones and present a model integrating the most important driving factors.
Author: | Stefan ZundelORCiDGND, Jutta Deffner, Immanuel Stieß |
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URL: | http://www.eceee.org/library/conference_proceedings/eceee_Summer_Studies/2009/Panel_8/8.256/paper |
ISBN: | 978-91-633-4454-1 |
Title of the source (English): | Act! Innovate! Deliver!:Reducing energy demand sustainably, ECEEE 2009 summer study, conference proceedings, 1 - 6 June 2009, La Colle sur Loup, France |
Publisher: | ECEEE |
Place of publication: | Stockholm |
Editor: | C. Broussous, C. Jover |
Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
Language: | English |
Year of publication: | 2009 |
First Page: | 1821 |
Last Page: | 1828 |
Faculty/Chair: | Fakultät 5 Wirtschaft, Recht und Gesellschaft / FG Allgemeine VWL mit dem Schwerpunkt Energie- und Umweltökonomik |
Institution name at the time of publication: | Fakultät für Ingenieurwissenschaften und Informatik (eHL) / Prof. AVWL mit dem Schwerpunkt Energie- und Umweltökonomik |