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2013 | Book

Introduction and Theoretical Framework Read chapter Read first chapter

Sustainable Energy Consumption in Residential Buildings

Editors: Klaus Rennings, Bettina Brohmann, Julia Nentwich, Joachim Schleich, Thure Traber, Rolf Wüstenhagen

Publisher: Physica-Verlag HD

Book Series : ZEW Economic Studies

Part of: Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" , Springer Professional "Wirtschaft" , Springer Professional "Technik"

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As the residential buildings sector accounts for around 30 percent of the final energy demand in Germany, this sector is increasingly becoming the focus of public attention with regard to climate change. In this book, decisions on energy consumption by private households are examined. The analyses are based on several empirical methods. The results show that the road to more sustainable energy consumption in residential buildings is not hampered by a lack of will on behalf of the consumers. However one should be realistic that there are many instances where improving thermal institution involves additional economic costs for individual households.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter
1. Introduction and Theoretical Framework
Abstract
Consumption is a key lever to achieving more sustainable development. Unsustainable consumption is a major cause of global environmental deterioration, including overexploitation of renewable resources and pollution caused by fossil fuels. The European Environmental Agency report “Household Consumption and the Environment” (EEA, 2005) identifies the need areas of food, housing, personal travel and mobility as well as tourism as the four major areas of household consumption with the highest negative environmental impacts.
Bettina Brohmann, Tim Clamor, Stefanie Heinzle, Klaus Rennings, Joachim Schleich, Rolf Wüstenhagen
2. Analysis of Existing Data: Determinants for the Adoption of Energy-Efficient Household Appliances in Germany
Abstract
Major household appliances account for 35 % of total European Union (EU) residential end-use electricity consumption (Bertoldi and Atanasiu, 2009). Refrigerators and freezers alone account for 15 % of residential electricity end-use, with washing machines accounting for 4 % and dishwashers, electric ovens and clothes dryers accounting for approximately 2 % of total residential end-use, apiece.
Bradford Mills, Joachim Schleich
3. Results of the SECO@Home Household Survey and Discrete Choice Analysis (Conjoint Studies)
Abstract
The 92/75/EEC “Energy Labelling Directive for Household Appliances”, adopted in 1992, requires retailers to display a compulsory label for fridges, freezers, washing machines and several other product categories. The labels show the level of energy consumption at the point of sale (COM 778, 2008).
Stefanie Heinzle, Rolf Wüstenhagen
4. Firm Strategies and Political Instruments
Abstract
Our world has changed faster than anybody expected: global warming, an awareness of widespread environmental deterioration, fundamental political transformations (Kärnä et al., 2002). Social issues and corporate responsibility in general and environmental matters in particular have gone from the sidelines to the forefront of consumers’ minds, academic research and management thinking (Chan and Lau, 2004).
Stefanie Heinzle
5. Impacts of the Instruments
Abstract
Household products consume natural resources in several ways. The manufacture of products, their use and sometimes even their form of disposal all contribute to overall resource consumption. Purchase decisions today influence how we use and replace products tomorrow.
Lothar Rausch, Christof Timpe
6. Home Heating, Technology and Gender: A Qualitative Analysis
Abstract
Few empirical studies take gender into account when analysing sustainable consumption. Even those studies that consider gender are not without shortcomings in their theorizing on gender. Drawing on insights from gender theory, we use a multilevel approach to investigate the relevance of gender to domestic energy consumption in Germany.
Ursula Offenberger, Julia Nentwich
Backmatter
Metadata
Title
Sustainable Energy Consumption in Residential Buildings
Editors
Klaus Rennings
Bettina Brohmann
Julia Nentwich
Joachim Schleich
Thure Traber
Rolf Wüstenhagen
Copyright Year
2013
Publisher
Physica-Verlag HD
Electronic ISBN
978-3-7908-2849-8
Print ISBN
978-3-7908-2848-1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2849-8