Browsing Geography by Author "Fahy, Frances"
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Achieving sustainability transitions in residential energy use across Europe: The importance of problem framings
Jensen, Charlotte Louise; Goggins, Gary; Røpke, Inge; Fahy, Frances (Elsevier, 2019-08-15)Reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the residential sector is central to European energy policy. However, the speed and scale of sustainable energy transitions need to accelerate. There is a growing consensus that meeting ... -
Alternative energy imaginaries: Implications for energy research, policy integration and the transformation of energy systems
Genus, Audley; Iskandarova, Marfuga; Goggins, Gary; Fahy, Frances; Laakso, Senja (Elsevier, 2021-01-16)The paper highlights shortcomings in the contribution of qualitative social sciences and humanities (SSH) research to tackling challenges connected with energy and climate change. These shortcomings are illustrated based ... -
Challenging conventions towards energy sufficiency: ruptures in laundry and heating routines in Europe
Sahakian, Marlyne; Naef, Patrick; Jensen, Charlotte; Goggins, Gary; Fahy, Frances (eceee Summer Study, 2019-06-03)This contribution proposes to address a central question in social science approaches to household energy studies: how do conventions around energy services evolve, how do they alter over time, and how can they be changed ... -
Challenging practices: experiences from community and individual living lab approaches
Matschoss, Kaisa; Fahy, Frances; Rau, Henrike; Backhaus, Julia; Goggins, Gary; Grealis, Eoin; Heiskanen, Eva; Kajoskoskia, Tuija; Laakso, Senja; Apajalahti, Eeva-Lotta; Genus, Audley; Godin, Laurence; Iskandarova, Marfuga; Musch, Annika-Kathrin; Sahakian, Marlyne; Scholl, Christian; Vadovics, Edina; Vasseur, Veronique (Taylor & Francis, 2021-05-20)In this article, we examine a change initiative designed to involve households in testing ways to transform two everyday practices heating and doing laundry. The research design included an examination of the challenges ... -
Challenging social norms to recraft practices: A Living Lab approach to reducing household energy use in eight European countries
Sahakian, Marlyne; Rau, Henrike; Grealis, Eoin; Godin, Laurence; Wallenborn, Grégoire; Backhaus, Julia; Friis, Freja; Genus, Audley T.; Goggins, Gary; Heaslip, Eimear; Heiskanen, Eva; Iskandarova, Marfuga; Jensen, Charlotte Louise; Laakso, Senja; Musch, Annika-Katrin; Scholl, Christian; Vadovics, Edina; Vadovics, Kristof; Vasseur, Véronique; Fahy, Frances (Elsevier, 2021-02-10)ENERGISE is the first large-scale European effort to reduce household energy use through a change initiative that adopted a ‘living lab’ approach informed by social practice theory. Two challenges were introduced to 306 ... -
Creating context for corridors of consumption: the case of Ireland
Lavelle, Mary Jo; Fahy, Frances (Taylor & Francis, 2021-01-25)Global consumption levels are significant contributors to detrimental environmental change and the current climate crisis. Across Ireland, domestic consumption levels have increased dramatically during the past three ... -
Energy demand challenges in Europe: Implications for policy, planning and practice
Fahy, Frances; Goggins, Gary; Jensen, Charlotte (Palgrave Pivot imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature, 2019)This open access book examines the role of citizens in sustainable energy transitions across Europe. It explores energy problem framing, policy approaches and practical responses to the challenge of securing clean, affordable ... -
Framing the sustainable energy challenge and implications for solutions
Jensen, Charlotte; Røpke, Inge; Goggins, Gary; Fahy, Frances (Palgrave Pivot, Cham, 2019-06-08)Sustainable consumption policies often rely on ecological modernisation rationality, where the focus is usually on making current consumption patterns more sustainable in such a way that status quo (ideas about the quality ... -
From invisibility to impact: Recognising the scientific and societal relevance of interdisciplinary sustainability research
Rau, Henrike; Goggins, Gary; Fahy, Frances (Elsevier, 2017-11-20)Academics are increasingly expected to produce concrete and directly applicable solutions to hard-to-solve 'real world problems' such as poverty, development, and environmental degradation. However, conventional assessments ... -
Imaginaries and practices: learning from ENERGISE about the integration of social sciences with the EU Energy Union
Genus, Audley; Fahy, Frances; Goggins, Gary; Iskandarova, Marfuga; Laakso, Senja (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018-08-24)This chapter aims (1) to identify problematic framings relating to the integration of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) research with the developing EU Energy Union and (2) to account for the practice of SSH-related ... -
An introduction to energy demand challenges in Europe
Fahy, Frances; Goggins, Gary (Palgrave Pivot, Cham, 2019-06-08)This opening chapter calls for greater attention to energy demand challenges in Europe. It argues that many obstacles and opportunities in achieving the so-called energy transition are social and cultural in nature and ... -
Reducing residential carbon emissions in Ireland: Challenges and policy responses
Goggins, Gary; Fahy, Frances; Heaslip, Eimear (Palgrave Pivot, Cham, 2019-06-08)Carbon emissions from the residential sector in Ireland are higher than the European average and are rising. This is a concern in a country already struggling to meet its agreed climate targets. In this chapter, the authors ... -
Steering demand? Exploring the intersection of policy, practice and lives in energy systems change in Ireland
Greene, Mary; Fahy, Frances (Elsevier, 2019-11-07)Recent advances in sociological investigations of energy-systems-change highlight the influence of a wide rangeof policies, beyond those typically considered relevant to energy, on energy demand. To this, a newfield of( ... -
Sustainable transitions in residential energy use: Characteristics and governance of urban-based initiatives across Europe
Goggins, Gary; Fahy, Frances; Jensen, Charlotte Louise (Elsevier, 2019-07-25)Reducing domestic energy use in cities has become a key focus in achieving sustainability goals. Recent and on-going efforts to address excessive residential energy use have taken various forms and have been initiated by ... -
Towards a practice-theoretical classification of sustainable energy consumption initiatives: Insights from social scientific energy research in 30 European countries
Jensen, Charlotte Louise; Goggins, Gary; Fahy, Frances; Grealis, Eoin; Vadovics, Edina; Genus, Audley; Rau, Henrike (Elsevier, 2018-07-03)Reducing residential energy use and related CO2 emissions across society requires approaches that understand energy demand as dependent on the performance of a range of interconnected social practices, which includes aspects ...