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Reference Number RES-152-25-1004
Title Research on lifestyle, values and energy consumption (RESOLVE)
Status Completed
Energy Categories Energy Efficiency(Residential and commercial) 30%;
Energy Efficiency(Transport) 20%;
Other Cross-Cutting Technologies or Research(Environmental, social and economic impacts) 50%;
Research Types Basic and strategic applied research 100%
Science and Technology Fields SOCIAL SCIENCES (Economics and Econometrics) 20%;
SOCIAL SCIENCES (Sociology) 30%;
SOCIAL SCIENCES (Psychology) 30%;
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Architecture and the Built Environment) 20%;
UKERC Cross Cutting Characterisation Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Policy and regulation) 40%;
Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Consumer attitudes and behaviour) 30%;
Other (Energy technology information dissemination) 30%;
Principal Investigator Professor T Jackson
Centre for Environmental Strategy
University of Surrey
Award Type Standard
Funding Source ESRC
Start Date 02 May 2006
End Date 01 May 2011
Duration 60 months
Total Grant Value £2,990,298
Industrial Sectors No relevance to Underpinning Sectors
Region South East
Programme ESRC Energy
 
Investigators Principal Investigator Professor T Jackson , Centre for Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey
  Other Investigator Professor L Hunt , Economics, University of Surrey
Professor G Cooper , Sociology, University of Surrey
Dr Green , Sociology, University of Surrey
Professor D Uzzell , Psychology, University of Surrey
Dr B Gatersleben , Psychology, University of Surrey
Dr S Cowell , Centre for Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey
Dr K Burningham , Centre for Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey
Web Site https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=RES-152-25-1004
www.surrey.ac.uk/resolve
Objectives Objectives not supplied
Abstract The overall aim of RESOLVE is to develop a robust understanding of the links between lifestyle, societal values and environment. In particular, RESOLVE will work to provide robust, evidence-based advice to policy-makers in the UK and elsewhere who are seeking to understand and to influence the behaviours and practices of ‘energy consumers’. Specific objectives of RESOLVE are: to explore material, economic, psychological, sociological and cultural accounts of the relationshipbetweenmodern lifestyles and the environment; to develop theoretical and empirical understandings of the potential for long-term lifestyle change in moving towards a sustainable energy economy; to understand the economic, social and psychological implications of a technological transition to a sustainableenergy economy; to develop an empirical ‘evidence base’ for effective policy intervention in energy-related behaviours and practices; to engage effectively with policy-makers, opinion-formers and the media in developing and communicating this new body of research. The work programme is structured around three inter-woven intellectual strands: energy and carbon 'mapping' (V1),social psychological influences (V2), and socio-cultural understandings (V3) of lifestyles. These three ‘vertical’ strands are informed and supported by two (horizontal) cross-cutting themes – on energy lifestyle scenarios (H1) and on policy and governance (H2).
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