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- Johansson, Maria, et al.
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Energy efficiency behaviour in the built environment—an assessment of current evaluation practices in the Nordic countries
- 2021
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Ingår i: Energy Efficiency. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1570-646X .- 1570-6478. ; 14:3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Behavioural change is expected to play a significant role in the transformation to a more energy efficient built environment. Despite this, current evaluation practice of interventions often overlook behavioural aspects in their ambition of advancing our knowledge on transformative change. Moreover, little attention is paid to how different research perspectives on human behaviour can complement each other in providing a broader scope and deeper understanding of behavioural change. In this study, we acknowledge this gap, and assess the current evaluation practices on behaviour. The focus is on energy efficiency in the built environment in the Nordic countries, and evaluations undertaken by researchers. The assessment shows that the Nordic evaluations apply a variety of disciplinary approaches, but have only to a limited extent addressed a psychological understanding of individual behaviour and behavioural change. We analyse and discuss the potential contribution of environmental psychology in strengthening a cross disciplinary evaluation approach. In all, the results indicate the value of also adding environmental psychology, to provide a stronger cross disciplinary understanding of behavioural change, and the need to coordinate and combine evaluations departing from different disciplinary approaches, to improve understanding of the transformational process.
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- Mccormick, Kes, et al.
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A call for action on sustainable urban transformation: How to govern missions towards climate neutral cities?
- 2020
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Rapport (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- The transitions to a low carbon and sustainable society are urgent, but at the current level and pace of action there is a significant risk we will escalate and exceed the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement and fail to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. By engaging cities, we can build momentum around bottom-up interconnected actions and accelerate societal and technological transitions.But the current focus is on large, global cities with minimal attention on small cities, villages, and urban nodes. Current actions are often based on top-down “urban optimism”. Current practice is fragmented and often focused on fixing failures. Current action emerges as isolated projects with limited systematic learning. The need for game changing efforts in cities is more critical than ever.
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- Mickwitz, Per, et al.
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A theory-based approach to evaluations intended to inform transitions toward sustainability
- 2021
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Ingår i: Evaluation. - : SAGE Publications. - 1356-3890 .- 1461-7153. ; 27:3, s. 281-306
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- There is an urgent need for radical transformations of unsustainable socio-technical systems, such as food, mobility, and housing. These transformations will not take place without new policies and research. In order to achieve these transitions, learning must be a central feature based on thorough evaluations of the actions taken. Evaluations have been conducted and studied for decades, but traditional evaluation approaches have largely been developed to produce knowledge for incremental changes, not for radical transformations. This article develops a framework for interdisciplinary evaluations targeting transformative changes toward a more sustainable society. The framework combines evaluation theory and practice with transition theory, sociology of science, policy analyses, and environmental psychology. While the primary purpose of the framework is to help design evaluations that would better enhance learning for transitions, it can also be used for systematic meta-evaluations of past evaluations.
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- Neij, Lena, et al.
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Bolstering a transition for a more sustainable energy system : A transformative approach to evaluations of energy efficiency in buildings
- 2021
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Ingår i: Energy Research and Social Science. - : Elsevier BV. - 2214-6296. ; 72
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A transition to a more sustainable energy system is called for, and to realise such a transition governments around the world have introduced various research programmes and policy instruments. In this paper, we elaborate on how the transition of the energy system could be reinforced through evaluation of research programmes and policy instruments, focusing on energy efficiency in buildings. We argue that a transition will require transformative evaluations that provide necessary learning from actions taken, and we propose an evaluation approach that complements, and goes beyond, the evaluation practice of today; an approach framed in line with the transition literature as well with evaluation research. We present a conceptual review of research literature, and apply the conceptual findings of this review to assess current evaluations of research programmes and policy instruments, focusing on energy efficiency in buildings in Sweden. The results show that the weakness of current evaluation practice is the fragmented approach to, and limited scope of, evaluations, which does not support transformative change. Despite this, there is potential for modification of the current evaluation approach to better capture transformative change by, for example, strengthening coordination between evaluations, providing better vision documents for the envisioned transition, and by providing better evaluations of innovative efforts by evaluating the outcome and learning in relation to upscaling processes. Moreover, the use of key evaluation concepts for supporting knowledge-based learning, such as the use of multiple methods, multiple criteria, and counterfactual analysis, can be further extended and improved to cater for transformative knowledge.
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