Sustainable Energy Consumption in Residential Buildings

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction and Theoretical Framework

   • Bettina Brohmann, Tim Clamor, Stefanie Heinzle, Klaus Rennings, Joachim Schleich, Rolf Wüstenhagen

   Pages 1-37

3. Analysis of Existing Data: Determinants for the Adoption of Energy-Efficient Household Appliances in Germany

   • Bradford Mills, Joachim Schleich

   Pages 39-67

4. Results of the SECO@Home Household Survey and Discrete Choice Analysis (Conjoint Studies)

   • Stefanie Heinzle, Rolf Wüstenhagen

   Pages 69-104

5. Firm Strategies and Political Instruments

   • Stefanie Heinzle

   Pages 105-157

6. Impacts of the Instruments

   • Lothar Rausch, Christof Timpe

   Pages 159-189

7. Home Heating, Technology and Gender: A Qualitative Analysis

   • Ursula Offenberger, Julia Nentwich

   Pages 191-211

8. Back Matter

   Pages 212-263

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As the residential buildings sector accounts for around 30 percent of the final energy demand in Germany, this sector is increasingly becoming the focus of public attention with regard to climate change. In this book, decisions on energy consumption by private households are examined. The analyses are based on several empirical methods. The results show that the road to more sustainable energy consumption in residential buildings is not hampered by a lack of will on behalf of the consumers. However one should be realistic that there are many instances where improving thermal institution involves additional economic costs for individual households.

• Conjoint analysis
• Discrete choice methods
• Energy efficiency
• Gender and Technology Studies
• Sustainable Energy Consumption

• Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH (ZEW), FB Umwelt- und Ressourcenökonomik,, Zentrum für Europäische, Mannheim, Germany

  Klaus Rennings

• Öko-Institut e.V., Darmstadt, Germany

  Bettina Brohmann

• St Gallen, Switzerland

  Julia Nentwich

• Systems and, Innovation Research ISI, Fraunhofer Institute for, Karlsruhe, Germany

  Joachim Schleich

• German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, Germany

  Thure Traber

• University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland

  Rolf Wüstenhagen

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