Energy and people: futures, complexity and challenges conference

Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, 20-21 September 2011

Papers can be downloaded from the UKERC Meeting Place website.

Session 1: Papers in Parallel

Combining behaviour with energy system modelling

• Neil Strachan, Incorporating Behavioural Complexity in Energy-Economic Models
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• Araz Taeihagh, Application of an Agent-Based System as a Virtual Environment for the Formulation of Policies
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• Jacopo Torriti, The Elasticity of Demand is about Occupancy, not Prices: Building European demand curves based on occupancy elasticity
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• Tao Zhang, Multi-Dimensional Archetypes of Residential Energy Consumers: A generic agent template for simulation scientists in energy research areas,
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Energy practices in households

• Sarah Higginson, Energy Use in the Context of Behaviour and Practice: The interdisciplinary challenge in modelling domestic electricity consumption
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• Ute Dubois, Household Vulnerability and Energy Conservation Behavior: Do the poor save less?
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• Susan Venn, ‘Moments of Change’: Exploring the transition to first-time parenthood or retirement as a point at which to influence the adoption of sustainable practices
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• Tina Fawcett, Home Time: An exploration of the time dimensions of eco-renovation of housing
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Local and Community governance of energy

• Catherine Bale, Local Authority Interventions in the Domestic Sector and the Roler of Social Networks: A case study from the city of Leeds.
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• Yvonne Rydin, (Em)Powering the City: Implications of urban energy initiatives
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• Alison Mathias, Local Authority Action for Energy Efficiency (England)
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Human dimension of renewables

• Radhika Perrot, The Dynamics of Renewable Energy Transformation in Developing Countries
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• Tanja Winther, Matching Policy and People: How does the promotion of renewable electricity appear from the perspective of Norwegian customers?
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• Xavier Lemaire, Massive-scale Diffusion of Small Photovoltaic Systems in Developing Countries: Challenges for the 21st century
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• Nicola Favretto, Jatropha curcas Energy Crop Cultivation: Policy and livelihood implications in Mali
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• Yonjoo Jeong, Energy Citizenship in Infrastructure Transition : Motives and meanings of renewable energy projects in South Korea and Japan
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Session 2: Papers in Parallel

Combining behaviour with energy system modelling

• Darren Robinson, Micro- Simulation of Urban Energy Flows
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• Nick Hughes, Towards an Actor-based Model of Socio-technical Change for Long Term Scenario Planning
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• Howard Noble, Communicating Complexity: A constructionist approach to envisaging the future
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Energy practices in households

• Catherine Butler, People, Practice and Energy: Exploring reduced energy consumption in low carbon transitions
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• Vera Peters, Mobilising Private Households to Reduce their Personal Carbon Footprints: Barriers and opportunities
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• Javier De Cendra, Enabling Behavioral Change that Brings about a Low Carbon Economy: A reflection on the contribution of law
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• Julia Steinberger, How Much is Enough? A sufficiency perspective on low-carbon development pathways
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Local and Community governance of energy

• Jung Jin Park, Fostering Community Energy and Equal Opportunities Between Community Groups
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• Charlotte Jensen, title
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• Michael Peters, Risk, Governance and Community: A ‘reinvention of politics’ or political opportunism?
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• John Quartey, Risk, title
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Session 3: Papers in Parallel

Pathways and scenarios

• Fatih Camci, Energy and Utilities Infrastructure: Can all be in one?
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• Thomas Berker, “Energy is the Capacity to do Work”. Towards new configurations of work, life and energy?
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• Noam Bergman, Climate Change: What role for social innovation and social movements?
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Energy practices in households

• Rob Ashby, Developing Evidence Based Policies To Reduce Residential Carbon Dioxide Emissions
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• Rajat Gupta, Action Research Approach for Gaining, and Providing Feedback on Domestic Energy Use to Understand Occupant Behaviour, Perceptions and Expectations
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• Phil Grunewald, Consumer Capacity Charging: The effect of 'not paying for energy' on an active demandside and the energy system
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• Megan McMichael, Moving Beyond the Average: Examining energy distributions and home energy use
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• Alexa Spence, Engaging with Energy: Saving money or saving the world?
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Politics of sustainable energy technologies

• Ralf Bilke, Reframing The Sustainability Of Biofuels: Shifting the focus
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• Patricio Zambrano Barragan, Evaluating the Role of Megaprojects in Low-Carbon Energy Systems: The case of the Belo Monte Dam
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• James Palmer, Biofuels, Food Security and the Politics of Land-use: Implications for intelligent and socially robust governance of sustainable energy futures
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Equity, justice and access to energy

• Becky Buell, From Clean Energy to Just Energy: Why equity matters in low-carbon energy investment and new models of socially inclusive energy enterprise
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• Stefan Bouzarovski, Researching Energy Precariousness: Methods, challenges, opportunities
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Session 4: Papers in Parallel

Public engagement with energy futures

• Emma Hinton, ‘Citizen-practitioners’: the critical path for a low carbon transition?
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• Colin Nolden, Energy policy and public engagement
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• Patrick Devine-Wright, Power, pylons and protest: a critical analysis of the role of place and scale in contested energy infrastructure projects
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• Jacqueline Lam, Managing the Transition towards Low-carbon Transport and Energy Systems in Hong Kong: A Stakeholder Engagement Model
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Reducing energy use in buildings

• Katy Janda, Building Communities: A New Interdisciplinary Approach to Reducing Energy Use in Tenanted Commercial Property
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• Andrew Karvonen, Pathways to Zero Carbon Housing in the UK: Science, Commerce, and Community
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• Jasmin Kientzel, Green Building Councils and Stakeholder Involvement: Energy Implications of Sustainable Building Governance
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• Liz Reason, Understanding the skills challenge for low energy buildings
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• Gavin Killip, Latent market opportunities for low-carbon housing refurbishment
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Politics of energy systems

• Philip Boucher, Biofuels: The Uniform Treatment of a Heterogeneous Technology
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• Yael Parag, The security of energy services
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• Nick Eyre, Demand reduction and low carbon supply – friends or enemies?
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• Chris Jones, Utilising Nuclear Energy for Secure, Low Carbon Heating Services in the UK
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