Research on lifestyle, values and energy consumption (RESOLVE)

Completed

Energy Efficiency(Residential and commercial)
Energy Efficiency(Transport)
Other Cross-Cutting Technologies or Research(Environmental, social and economic impacts)

Basic and strategic applied research

SOCIAL SCIENCES (Economics and Econometrics)
SOCIAL SCIENCES (Sociology)
SOCIAL SCIENCES (Psychology)
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Architecture and the Built Environment)

Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Policy and regulation)
Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Consumer attitudes and behaviour)
Other (Energy technology information dissemination)

Professor T Jackson
Centre for Environmental Strategy
University of Surrey

Standard

ESRC

02 May 2006

01 May 2011

60 months

£2,990,298

No relevance to Underpinning Sectors

South East

ESRC Energy

Professor T Jackson, Centre for Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey

Dr K Burningham, Centre for Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey
Professor G Cooper, Sociology, University of Surrey
Dr S Cowell, Centre for Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey
Dr B Gatersleben, Psychology, University of Surrey
Dr Green, Sociology, University of Surrey
Professor L Hunt, Economics, University of Surrey
Professor D Uzzell, Psychology, University of Surrey

Objectives not supplied

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).

03/11/09