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Society pushes to go faster, but data binges carry environmental costs

By Mike Hazas, Lancaster University Originally published in (more…)

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Social practices, energy demand and time use data –methodological lessons from DEMAND, 17 October 2014

This workshop provided an opportunity to present, share and discuss some of the analysis techniques developed and data challenges encountered in DEMAND so far and to bring together others working on energy, mobility and Time Use data. Results and data challenges from these analyses were presented to provoke discussion on the main advantages and challenges of using Time Use data to investigate…

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Working Paper 3: Categories, Concepts and Units: Representing energy demand in and through time

Working Paper 3: Theme 1, Jillian Anable, Ben Anderson, Elizabeth Shove, Jacopo Torriti, July 2014. Methods of data collection are unavoidably rooted in some sort of theoretical paradigm, and are inextricably tied to an implicit agenda or broad problem framing. These prior orientations are not always explicit, but they matter for what data is collected and how it is used. They also…

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Theme 1 Summary: The Rhythms of Demand, Ben Anderson, Jillian Anable, Jacopo Torriti, Giulio Mattioli and Richard Hanna, January 2014

Establishing Basecamp Theme 1’s objective of conceptualising and describing the changing demand for energy within UK society is easy to say, seductively straightforward to write and, it seems, fiendishly challenging to achieve. (more…)

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Talk: Theories, categories and units: collecting and using data on time, mobility and energy demand.

Jillian Anable, Ben Anderson, Jacopo Torriti, and Elizabeth Shove gave a Presentation on Theories, categories and units: collecting and using data on time, mobility and energy demand at the Modelling on the Move Workshop, 13 September 2013.

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