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Implications of declining household sizes and expectations of home comfort for domestic energy demand
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dc.contributor.author | Ellsworth-Krebs, Katherine | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-06-15T23:34:43Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-06-15T23:34:43Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-01 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Ellsworth-Krebs , K 2020 , ' Implications of declining household sizes and expectations of home comfort for domestic energy demand ' , Nature Energy , vol. 5 , no. 1 , pp. 20-25 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-019-0512-1 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 2058-7546 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE: 264659256 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE UUID: 42aac28a-14bb-44f1-afc5-9181ba75397d | |
dc.identifier.other | RIS: urn:65B1FA5152803CBA2624DEF20C74A271 | |
dc.identifier.other | RIS: Ellsworth-Krebs2019 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0003-3098-1498/work/66398400 | |
dc.identifier.other | Scopus: 85076931123 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/20087 | |
dc.description | This research was made possible by a Carnegie Trust Research Incentive Grant (Grant no. RIG007515). | en |
dc.description.abstract | Techno-economic approaches largely avoid delineating necessary energy uses or questioning how excessive lifestyle expectations may curtail attempts to achieve ambitious climate change targets. In this Perspective, I present data suggesting a general trend of increasing domestic floor area per capita globally and argue that this ought to be a key focus in future energy research, considering that house size is the largest determinant of domestic energy consumption. Particular attention should be directed at the confluence of factors that influence floor area per capita and questions of lifestyle expectations, energy sufficiency and invisible energy policies that have enabled the rise in floor area per capita both deliberately and inadvertently. Overall, this elucidates why energy research must consider lifestyle expectations and demographic trends that are generally seen as outside the remit of energy policy. | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Nature Energy | en |
dc.rights | Copyright © Springer Nature Limited 2019. This work has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies or with permission. Permission for further reuse of this content should be sought from the publisher or the rights holder. This is the author created accepted manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-019-0512-1 | en |
dc.subject | G Geography (General) | en |
dc.subject | HM Sociology | en |
dc.subject | 3rd-DAS | en |
dc.subject | SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy | en |
dc.subject | SDG 13 - Climate Action | en |
dc.subject.lcc | G1 | en |
dc.subject.lcc | HM | en |
dc.title | Implications of declining household sizes and expectations of home comfort for domestic energy demand | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.sponsor | Carnegie Trust | en |
dc.description.version | Postprint | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Geography & Sustainable Development | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-019-0512-1 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.date.embargoedUntil | 2020-06-16 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | RIG007515 | en |
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