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Open AccessTowards a public policy of cities and human settlements in the 21st century
Cities and other human settlements are major contributors to climate change and are highly vulnerable to its impacts. They are also uniquely positioned to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and lead adaptation ef...
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Demand-side strategies key for mitigating material impacts of energy transitions
As fossil fuels are phased out in favour of renewable energy, electric cars and other low-carbon technologies, the future clean energy system is likely to require less overall mining than the current fossil-fu...
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Advancing energy and well-being research
Energy and climate change mitigation analysis rooted in economic relationships alone is largely disconnected from the advancement of well-being. We propose an interdisciplinary research agenda that relates ene...
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Climate mitigation scenarios with persistent COVID-19-related energy demand changes
The COVID-19 pandemic caused radical temporary breaks with past energy use trends. How post-pandemic recovery will impact the longer-term energy transition is unclear. Here we present a set of global COVID-19 ...
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Open AccessEvaluating process-based integrated assessment models of climate change mitigation
Process-based integrated assessment models (IAMs) project long-term transformation pathways in energy and land-use systems under what-if assumptions. IAM evaluation is necessary to improve the models’ usefulne...
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Energy modellers should explore extremes more systematically in scenarios
Scenarios are the primary tool for examining how current decisions shape the future, but the future is affected as much by out-of-ordinary extremes as by generally expected trends. Energy modellers can study e...
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Drivers of declining CO2 emissions in 18 developed economies
Global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) from fossil fuels and industry increased by 2.2% per year on average between 2005 and 20151. Global emissions need to peak and decline rapidly to limit climate change to w...
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Open AccessDemand-side approaches for limiting global warming to 1.5 °C
The Paris Climate Agreement defined an ambition of limiting global warming to 1.5 °C above preindustrial levels. This has triggered research on stringent emission reduction targets and corresponding mitigation...
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Open AccessThe potential contribution of disruptive low-carbon innovations to 1.5 °C climate mitigation
This paper investigates the potential for consumer-facing innovations to contribute emission reductions for limiting warming to 1.5 °C. First, we show that global integrated assessment models which characteris...
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Interaction of consumer preferences and climate policies in the global transition to low-carbon vehicles
Burgeoning demands for mobility and private vehicle ownership undermine global efforts to reduce energy-related greenhouse gas emissions. Advanced vehicles powered by low-carbon sources of electricity or hydro...
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A low energy demand scenario for meeting the 1.5 °C target and sustainable development goals without negative emission technologies
Scenarios that limit global warming to 1.5 °C describe major transformations in energy supply and ever-rising energy demand. Here, we provide a contrasting perspective by develo** a narrative of future chang...
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Stranded research? Leading finance journals are silent on climate change
Finance research has shaped the modern financial system, influencing investors and market participants directly through research findings and indirectly through teaching and training programmes. Climate change...
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Social signals and sustainability: ambiguity about motivations can affect status perceptions of efficiency and curtailment behaviors
Perceived status can affect the diffusion of pro-environmental behaviors and sustainable consumption. However, the status of different forms of sustainable consumption has not been adequately explored. Previou...
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Introduction: Smart Homes and Their Users
This chapter introduces the book, its rationale and objectives, and the new data sources on which much of the analysis is based. Smart home technologies (SHTs) are now commercially available amid the promise o...
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Perceived Benefits and Risks of Smart Home Technologies
This chapter characterises the perceived benefits and risks of smart home technologies (SHTs) from multiple perspectives. A representative national survey of over a thousand UK homeowners finds prospective use...
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Domestication of Smart Home Technologies
This chapter draws on in-depth qualitative data to explore how 10 households domesticated smart home technologies (SHTs) over a nine month period as part of the SHT field trial described in Chap. ...
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Conclusions and Implications for Industry, Policy and Research
In this chapter we synthesise the main findings from the four empirical chapters and summarise the arguments and themes developed throughout the book. These illustrate the importance of research that integrate...
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Analytical Framework for Research on Smart Homes and Their Users
Through a systematic analysis of peer-reviewed literature, this chapter takes stock of the dominant research themes on smart homes and their users, and the linkages and disconnects between these themes. Key fi...
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Routines and Energy Intensity of Activities in the Smart Home
The instrumental view of smart homes and their users is premised on active management of energy demand contributing to energy system objectives. In this chapter we explore a novel way of using data from smart ...
