New runways to support leisure even as transport at home is cut

Posted on December 20, 2013

By Greg Marsden, University of Leeds Originally published in (more…)

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Installer businesses and renewable energy uptake in homes. Richard Hanna

Posted on December 18, 2013

Richard talked about his PhD research into the world of small businesses involved in installing solar panels, heat pumps and other forms of microgeneration.  We learned about rapid developments in the installer world: the crazy rush up to the point when the feed in tariff changed, and the ebb and flow of contractors from plumbing and electrical work into, and then back out of the more…

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Talk: Producing and validating small area estimates of inequalities in household electricity demand for England, Ben Anderson

Posted on December 12, 2013

Abstract from presentation at the 4th General Conference of the International Microsimulation Association, Canberra, 11-13 December 2013.

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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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