Browsing Geography (Scholarly Articles) 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 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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...