Projects
Projects: Projects for Investigator |
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| Reference Number | ES/H032258/1 | |
| Title | Individuals" and Communities" Energy Behaviours | |
| Status | Completed | |
| Energy Categories | Other Cross-Cutting Technologies or Research(Environmental, social and economic impacts) 100%; | |
| Research Types | Basic and strategic applied research 100% | |
| Science and Technology Fields | SOCIAL SCIENCES (Politics and International Studies) 25%; SOCIAL SCIENCES (Sociology) 75%; |
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| UKERC Cross Cutting Characterisation | Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Policy and regulation) 50%; Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Consumer attitudes and behaviour) 50%; |
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| Principal Investigator |
Dr TJ Chatterton No email address given Faculty of Environment and Technology University of the West of England |
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| Award Type | Standard | |
| Funding Source | ESRC | |
| Start Date | 01 February 2010 | |
| End Date | 31 January 2011 | |
| Duration | 12 months | |
| Total Grant Value | £58,036 | |
| Industrial Sectors | No relevance to Underpinning Sectors | |
| Region | South West | |
| Programme | ||
| Investigators | Principal Investigator | Dr TJ Chatterton , Faculty of Environment and Technology, University of the West of England (100.000%) |
| Web Site | https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FH032258%2F1 |
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| Objectives | Objectives not supplied | |
| Abstract | The Fellowship is in partnership with the Research Councils Energy Programme (ESRC and EPSRC) and the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). The aim of the Fellowship is to provide social science input regarding the energy behaviour of individuals and communities into the policy development process in DECC in order to help enable "the public" to more readily take up "low-carbon" patterns of behaviour. The climate change benefits of adopting low-carbon behaviour are not clearly experienced by the actors, as the majority of climate impacts will occur in other parts of the world, some time in the future. However, evidence suggests that many elements of low-carbon lifestyles can be seen to have direct ancillary benefits to the actors, (such as economic or health benefits). The successful development of policies to encourage climate orientated behaviour change is likely to have to rely on being able to "sell" these policies to the public on the basis of these direct ancillary benefits, in addition or alternatively to making a moral case for altruistic behaviour change. | |
| Publications | (none) |
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| Final Report | (none) |
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| Added to Database | 06/12/11 | |
