Author Archives: Simone Gristwood

Reading Group: 17 December 2013

Posted on November 20, 2013

On 17 December a group of us – Richard, Jan, Guilio, Alison, Elizabeth, Neil and Gordon – discussed Missing carbon reductions? Exploring rebound and backfire effects in UK households by Angela Druckman et al, (Energy Policy, 39, Issue 6, June 2011, Pages 3572–3581) (more…)

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Car dependence: Micro-, macro- and meso-approaches to the study of social barriers to sustainable transport. Giulio Mattioli

Posted on November 20, 2013

Giulio set out what might be thought of as an ‘anatomy’ of car dependence, distinguishing between representations of car dependence as a characteristic of people, places or practices. He went into detail, thinking about the forms of disadvantage that might be involved, depending on the specific interaction between people and places (who has a car, how much does having a car matter, where…

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Talk: The Dynamics of Energy Demand: Change, Rhythm, Synchronicity and Movement

Posted on November 14, 2013

Presentation by Gordon Walker, on The Dynamics of Energy Demand: Change, Rhythm, Synchronicity and Movement,  at ‘STS Perspectives on Energy’, University of Lisbon, 4-5 November 2013.

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All this talk about lights hides bigger energy challenges

Posted on November 14, 2013

By Allison Hui, Lancaster University and Elizabeth Shove, Lancaster University Originally published in (more…)

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Reading Group: 12 November 2013

Posted on November 5, 2013

We discussed 'Towards a theory of decoupling: degrees of decoupling in the EU and the case of road traffic in Finland between 1970 and 2001' by Petri Tapio (Transport Policy 12 (2005) 137–151).  (more…)

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