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System Innovation for Sustainability 4 - Case Studies in Sustainable Consumption and Production - Energy Use and the Built Environment (Hardcover, New)
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System Innovation for Sustainability 4 - Case Studies in Sustainable Consumption and Production - Energy Use and the Built Environment (Hardcover, New)
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The EU-funded project "Sustainable Consumption Research Exchanges"
(SCORE!) consists of around 200 experts in the field of sustainable
innovation and sustainable consumption. The SCORE! philosophy is
that innovation in SCP policy can be achieved only if experts that
understand business development, (sustainable) solution design,
consumer behaviour and system innovation policy work together in
shaping it. Sustainable technology design can be effective only if
business can profitably make the products and consumers are
attracted to them. To understand how this might effectively happen,
the expertise of systems thinkers must be added to the mix. The
publication in 2008 of System Innovation for Sustainability 1 was
the first result of a unique positive confrontation between experts
from all four communities. It examined what SCP is and what it
could be, provided a state-of-the-art review on the governance of
change in SCP policy and looked at the strengths and weaknesses of
current approaches. System Innovation for Sustainability 4 is the
third of three books of case studies covering respectively the
three key consumption areas of mobility, food and agriculture, and
energy use and the built environment - responsible for 70% of the
life-cycle environmental impacts of Western societies - with the
aim of stimulating, fostering or forcing change to SCP theory in
practice. Energy consumption is obviously a key issue for
sustainability, primarily because it depletes non-renewable fossil
fuels, produces CO2 and other pollution. As climate change is
becoming a key political issue, and as oil prices rise, society has
become acutely aware of this issue. Energy is a special case
because it is a key input to almost all other consumption and
production processes. Housing is, with transport and food, a major
consumer of energy, accounting for about one quarter of the
environmental impact from the general consumption of products in
the European Union, on a par with food and transport. Energy use in
houses and buildings is also set to rise as populations - and the
buildings they need -continue to increase. In France, for example,
energy consumption in houses and offices accounts for 43% of the
total national energy consumption, and one-quarter of national
greenhouse gas emissions. The UK's 21 million homes consume around
50 million tonnes of oil equivalent (responsible for 27% of UK CO2
emissions); this energy use has increased steadily by about 1.3%
per year since 1990. Germany's buildings contribute one-fifth of
the country's CO2 emissions. Beyond this, buildings are the
environment where we spend most of our lives; they deeply influence
many other consumption patterns, and are an important factor for
life and comfort. The societal function and nature of buildings as
they are currently constructed presents some key difficulties in
moving towards sustainable consumption and production. Buildings
have a long lifetime; and therefore they are a major target for any
structural changes in consumption patterns. Conversely, long
lifetimes come with associated strong inertia; therefore the stock
of existing buildings is often an obstacle to policies aimed at
behavioural change. This book examines, through a case study
approach, opportunities to influence energy consumption in housing
and buildings and thereby provide options for implementation at a
macro, meso and micro level. A growing body of evidence shows that
cases demonstrating action towards SCP in energy use in housing can
inspire innovation through a range of actors. The cases include
examples of steps towards the sustainable use of energy in houses
and buildings, from "local experiments", to "innovative
communities", to wider regime or non-local scale change in Europe
and North America. The System Innovation for Sustainability series
is the fruit of the first major international research network on
SCP and will set the standard in this field for some years to come.
It will be required reading for all involved in the policy debate
on sustainable production and consumption from government,
business, academia and NGOs for designers, scientists, businesses
and system innovators.
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