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TY - JOUR
T1 - Invisible energy policies
T2 - a new agenda for energy demand reduction
AU - Royston, Sarah
AU - Selby, Jan
AU - Shove, Elizabeth Anne
N1 - This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Energy Policy. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Energy Policy, 123, 2018 DOI:10.1016/j.enpol.2018.08.052
PY - 2018/12/1
Y1 - 2018/12/1
N2 - This article makes the case for a new and ambitious research and governance agenda for energy demand reduction.It argues that existing ‘demand-side’ approaches focused on promoting technological efficiency and informed individual consumption are unlikely to be adequate to achieving future carbon emissions reduction goals; it points out that very little attention has so far been paid to the impacts of non-energy policies on energy demand; and it submits that a much fuller integration of energy demand questions into policy is required. It advances a general framework, supported by illustrative examples, for understanding the impacts of ‘non-energy’ policies on energy demand. It reflects on why these connections have been so little explored and addressed within energy research and policy. And it argues that, for all their current ‘invisibility’, there is nonetheless scopefor increasing the visibility of, and in effect ‘mainstreaming’, energy demand reduction objectives within other policy areas. Researchers and policymakers, we contend, need to develop better understandings of how energy demand might be made governable, and how non-energy policies might be revised, alone and in combination, to help steer long-term changes in energy demand.
AB - This article makes the case for a new and ambitious research and governance agenda for energy demand reduction.It argues that existing ‘demand-side’ approaches focused on promoting technological efficiency and informed individual consumption are unlikely to be adequate to achieving future carbon emissions reduction goals; it points out that very little attention has so far been paid to the impacts of non-energy policies on energy demand; and it submits that a much fuller integration of energy demand questions into policy is required. It advances a general framework, supported by illustrative examples, for understanding the impacts of ‘non-energy’ policies on energy demand. It reflects on why these connections have been so little explored and addressed within energy research and policy. And it argues that, for all their current ‘invisibility’, there is nonetheless scopefor increasing the visibility of, and in effect ‘mainstreaming’, energy demand reduction objectives within other policy areas. Researchers and policymakers, we contend, need to develop better understandings of how energy demand might be made governable, and how non-energy policies might be revised, alone and in combination, to help steer long-term changes in energy demand.
KW - Energy demand
KW - Policy
KW - Governance
KW - Mainstreaming
KW - Integration
U2 - 10.1016/j.enpol.2018.08.052
DO - 10.1016/j.enpol.2018.08.052
M3 - Journal article
VL - 123
SP - 127
EP - 135
JO - Energy Policy
JF - Energy Policy
SN - 0301-4215
ER -