| Preface | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. xi |
| Incorporating Behavioural, Social, and Organizational Phenomena in the Assessment of Climate Change Mitigation Options | p. 1 |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The current framework | p. 2 |
| Description of current framework | p. 2 |
| A general critique of the current framework | p. 5 |
| Implications for current climate change policy assessment | p. 36 |
| Improving the current framework | p. 39 |
| A schematic illustration of policy and organizational perspectives | p. 39 |
| Short-term improvements in climate policy modelling | p. 41 |
| Longer term modelling advances | p. 46 |
| Epilogue: Inventing the future | p. 48 |
| References | p. 51 |
| Cultural Discourses in the Global Climate Change Debate | p. 65 |
| Introduction | p. 65 |
| Policy Arguments and Policy Stories | p. 66 |
| Three Stories About Global Climate Change | p. 71 |
| Policy Implications | p. 75 |
| Scenario Planning: One Tool from the Appropriate Policy Tool-Kit | p. 77 |
| References | p. 91 |
| Consumption, Motivation And Choice Across Scale: Consequences For Selected Target Groups | p. 93 |
| The Rules Of The Cultural Method | p. 93 |
| How, then, does culture matter? | p. 95 |
| Some Applications Of The Cultural Method | p. 101 |
| References | p. 107 |
| The Legacy of Twenty Years of Energy Demand Management: we know more about Individual Behaviour but next to Nothing about Demand | p. 109 |
| Introduction | p. 109 |
| Energy and the social sciences | p. 110 |
| Device-centered approaches to understanding energy use | p. 110 |
| Bringing the social sciences to bear on energy policy research | p. 111 |
| A limited social science contribution | p. 112 |
| The problems of reducing the role of social science to that of understanding the end-user's "efficiency" behaviour | p. 113 |
| The individual as the locus of control and change | p. 114 |
| Overcoming the barriers | p. 114 |
| Energy consuming behaviour or the consumption of energy services? | p. 115 |
| Demanding a new agenda? | p. 117 |
| Re-positioning debate | p. 118 |
| Re-formulating questions | p. 119 |
| Re-tooling research | p. 121 |
| Re-thinking policy | p. 122 |
| Conclusions | p. 123 |
| References | p. 123 |
| Group Identity, Personal Ethics and Sustainable Development Suggesting New Directions For Social Marketing Research | p. 127 |
| Introduction | p. 127 |
| Experimentalist approach to social behaviour: group identity and personal ethics as intrapersonal variables | p. 130 |
| Group identity and personal ethics as motives for environmentally responsible consumption | p. 132 |
| 'Green consumer' as a group identity | p. 135 |
| Conceptualization of the green consumer | p. 135 |
| Myriad ways of thinking, being, and acting green | p. 136 |
| Morality, rationality and green consumerism | p. 139 |
| Personal ethics and green consumerism | p. 140 |
| The 'rationality' of environmentally moral behaviour | p. 141 |
| Personal environmental ethics as an existential choice | p. 143 |
| Suggested future directions for environmental policy oriented research | p. 145 |
| Appendix | p. 148 |
| References | p. 151 |
| European Narratives about Human Nature, Society and the Good Life | p. 157 |
| Introduction | p. 157 |
| Cultural Narratives and Traditions | p. 158 |
| Modernism | p. 160 |
| Romanticism | p. 163 |
| Humanism | p. 164 |
| Other traditions | p. 164 |
| Views on climate change from the traditions | p. 165 |
| Where next? | p. 166 |
| References | p. 167 |
| Gender-Specific Patterns of Poverty and (Over-)Consumption in Developing and Developed Countries | p. 169 |
| Introduction | p. 169 |
| Concepts | p. 170 |
| Issues and Research | p. 173 |
| Poverty and (Over-)Consumption | p. 174 |
| Consumption and Gender | p. 175 |
| Consumption Choices By Women and Men | p. 176 |
| Energy Consumption | p. 177 |
| Transport | p. 178 |
| Environmental Degradation | p. 180 |
| Measures of Environmental Protection | p. 181 |
| Consumer Awareness and Behaviour Concerning Environmental Problems | p. 181 |
| Points for Discussion and Future Work | p. 183 |
| References | p. 187 |
| Climate Change and Relative Consumption | p. 191 |
| Introduction | p. 191 |
| The Dice Model: Base Specification | p. 193 |
| Relative Consumption Effects | p. 195 |
| Competitive Equilibrium | p. 197 |
| Optimal Taxation | p. 198 |
| Numerical Simulations | p. 200 |
| Summary and Conclusions | p. 204 |
| References | p. 205 |
| Social interactions and conditions for change in energy-related decision-making in SMCs-an empirical socio-economic analysis | p. 207 |
| Abstract | p. 207 |
| Engineering-Economic Analyses-Do They Miss the Problem? | p. 207 |
| The Micro-Economic Understanding of Decision-Making | p. 208 |
| Shortcomings of the Barrier Debate | p. 209 |
| Opening the Black Box-A Closer Look at the Adoption of Energy Efficiency Solutions | p. 210 |
| Economic Decision Is Only One Step In a More Complex Process of Adoption | p. 210 |
| Energy Issues Are Usually Neglected and Need Distinct Impulses to Get Back on the Agenda | p. 212 |
| Energy Efficiency Needs to Be Perceived as a Promising Opportunity for Individual and Collective Action | p. 213 |
| Efficiency Projects Risk Being Turned Down Due to Insufficient Decision Preparation | p. 213 |
| Feedback Loops and Learning Effects Contribute to Self-Dynamic Action | p. 214 |
| Dimensions of the Implementation of Energy Efficiency Solutions | p. 216 |
| New Insights into the Nature of Transaction Costs | p. 218 |
| The Original Contribution of Socio-Economic Research to the Policy Domain of Technical Progress and Diffusion | p. 220 |
| Conclusions | p. 222 |
| References | p. 223 |
| Motivation and decision criteria for energy efficiency in private households, companies and administrations in Russia | p. 229 |
| Introduction | p. 229 |
| Basic motivations and rationales for energy saving | p. 230 |
| Regional and Municipal Administrations | p. 230 |
| Private Households | p. 231 |
| Businesses | p. 233 |
| Conclusion | p. 233 |
| References | p. 234 |
| List of Editors and Authors | p. 235 |
| List of Reviewers, Rapporteurs, and Discussants | p. 237 |
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