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- Foulds, Chris, et al.
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An agenda for future Social Sciences and Humanities research on energy efficiency : 100 priority research questions
- 2022
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Ingår i: Humanities & Social Sciences Communications. - : Springer Nature. - 2662-9992. ; 9:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Decades of techno-economic energy policymaking and research have meant evidence from the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH)-including critical reflections on what changing a societys relation to energy (efficiency) even means-have been underutilised. In particular, (i) the SSH have too often been sidelined and/or narrowly pigeonholed by policymakers, funders, and other decision-makers when driving research agendas, and (ii) the setting of SSH-focused research agendas has not historically embedded inclusive and deliberative processes. The aim of this paper is to address these gaps through the production of a research agenda outlining future SSH research priorities for energy efficiency. A Horizon Scanning exercise was run, which sought to identify 100 priority SSH questions for energy efficiency research. This exercise included 152 researchers with prior SSH expertise on energy efficiency, who together spanned 62 (sub-)disciplines of SSH, 23 countries, and a full range of career stages. The resultant questions were inductively clustered into seven themes as follows: (1) Citizenship, engagement and knowledge exchange in relation to energy efficiency; (2) Energy efficiency in relation to equity, justice, poverty and vulnerability; (3) Energy efficiency in relation to everyday life and practices of energy consumption and production; (4) Framing, defining and measuring energy efficiency; (5) Governance, policy and political issues around energy efficiency; (6) Roles of economic systems, supply chains and financial mechanisms in improving energy efficiency; and (7) The interactions, unintended consequences and rebound effects of energy efficiency interventions. Given the consistent centrality of energy efficiency in policy programmes, this paper highlights that well-developed SSH approaches are ready to be mobilised to contribute to the development, and/or to understand the implications, of energy efficiency measures and governance solutions. Implicitly, it also emphasises the heterogeneity of SSH policy evidence that can be produced. The agenda will be of use for both (1) those new to the energy-SSH field (including policyworkers), for learnings on the capabilities and capacities of energy-SSH, and (2) established energy-SSH researchers, for insights on the collectively held futures of energy-SSH research.
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- Koch, Christian, 1958, et al.
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Radical Sustainable Innovation of office buildings
- 2017
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 9th Nordic Conference on Construction Economics and Organization. - 9788750211259
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The recent development of technologies, processes and methods of sustainable building has enabled anunprecedented quantum leap in the available solutions. These possibilities could be interpreted asradical, yet they appear at a time as results of a long emergent development. The aim of this paper is tocritically scrutinize, theoretically and empirically, whether radical innovation is occurring insustainable building and what the implication are.The theoretical framework is based on concepts ofradical innovation, inventions and sustainability. Radical sustainable innovation (RSI) should becharacterized by high degrees of newness in the entire life cycle. RSI should offer significantenhancements of known benefits, entirely new benefits, or substantial cost reductions, leading to thetransformation of existing markets, the creation of sustainable growth, and global sustainability. Thus,if buildings were RSI, it would be a shift in paradigm of how buildings are designed, build andused.Serious limitations on these notions are addressed. Buildings are large complex products realisedthrough complex processes and with a long lifecycle. It appears impossible that an entire buildingshould/could be radically new. How to evaluate radicality is a major challenge. It is tentativelyproposed, to use standards for sustainable office buildings. Standards are developed to accelerate thesustainable development but has to some extent come to constrain possibilities of radical innovation.As the criteria of newness is incorporated in standards, going beyond them, could be viewed as radical.Empirically a selection of international cases of office buildings with very high scores of BREEAM,LEED and DGNB are examined. Six selected cases were analysed more in detail, one ofthem,GeelensCounterflow’s Headquarters, being the most outstanding.This handful of office buildingshave reached remarkable higher level of sustainability than contemporary building regulations. Thereisindeed a gap between these few buildings and the majority, making them more radical, yet due toweak social sustainability, they are not evaluated as radical innovation.
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- Koch-ørvad, Nina, et al.
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Murmuration as metaphor for sustainable innovation processes
- 2018
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Ingår i: Proceeding of the 34th Annual ARCOM Conference, ARCOM 2018. ; , s. 179-188
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The construction industry stands before an extensive and essential transition towards sustainability; however, the configuration of the innovation processes that lead to such transition is unclear. In this paper, the concept of murmuration, i.e. the collective behaviour of starlings, is introduced as a metaphor for sustainable innovation processes in construction. The murmuration metaphor captures the flowing, ever-changing non-structure that characterises innovation processes within sustainable construction. This conceptual hypothesis is based on an empirical observation, and the potentials of the metaphor are explored at two interdisciplinary workshops with actors from the Danish construction industry. The empirical validation shows that the murmuration metaphor can generate a useful framework for understanding and discussing sustainable innovation processes in construction. Furthermore, murmuration can be a fruitful addition to the understanding of the societal transition towards sustainability as an elaboration of the niche-to-regime processes emphasised in the Multi-Level Perspective.
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- Koch-ørvad, Nina, et al.
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Transforming Ecosystems: Facilitating Sustainable Innovations Through the Lineage of Exploratory Projects
- 2019
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Ingår i: Project Management Journal. - : SAGE Publications. - 1938-9507 .- 8756-9728. ; 50:5, s. 602-616
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Radical innovations are essential for the sustainable transition of society; however, such innovations are struggling to establish a solid position in the ecosystem. Through a case study, the influence of the ecosystem on a radical, sustainable innovation is investigated. The study shows that the ecosystem causes bottleneck challenges for the innovation and that a lineage of exploratory projects is essential to transforming the ecosystem and thereby supporting the breakthrough of the innovation. A model for lineage ecosystem management is proposed, extending and contributing to the multiproject lineage management approach, with a particular focus on radical, sustainable innovations.
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Norske hytter i endring : om bærekraft og behag
- 2011
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- Hytta er et fristed, et familiested og en måte å være i naturen på – men den kan også være en stressfaktor, et strengt regulert sosialt felt og et økende miljøproblem.Hva kan hyttelivet fortelle om samspillet mellom samfunn og teknologi? Hvordan påvirkes det moderne hyttelivet av muligheten til å drive et aktivt friluftsliv? Hva er drivkreftene bak hytteutviklingen, og hvilke konsekvenser skaper de nye fritidsboligene for naturen, for samfunnet rundt og for måten vi lever på?Denne boken diskuterer disse spørsmålene. Engasjerte forskere fra mange fagfelt utforsker våre oppfatninger om den norske hytta, motsetningene som kan oppstå mellom dem, og hvordan vi kan forstå forholdet mellom hytter, miljø og samfunnsutvikling bedre.
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