Browsing Geography (Scholarly Articles) by Author "Goggins, Gary"
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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 ... -
Alteration spaces: Charting the sustainability potential of large organizations
Goggins, Gary; Rau, Henrike (Elsevier, 2021-10-08)Large organizations play a key role in sustainability transitions through their systems of production and consumption and their influence on wider society. Recognizing the uniqueness and complexity of structure-agency ... -
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 ... -
Beyond calorie counting: assessing the sustainability of food provided for public consumption
Goggins, Gary; Rau, Henrike (Elsevier, 2015-06-19)Food consumption outside home is a growing phenomenon that is rapidly gaining in importance in terms of its impact on both consumers and the food system. This paper presents an innovative tool for measuring the sustainability ... -
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 ... -
Designing real-world laboratories for the reduction of residential energy use: Articulating theories of change
Heiskanen, Eva; Laakso, Senja; Matschoss, Kaisa; Backhaus, Julia; Goggins, Gary; Vadovics, Edina (Oekom Verlag, 2018-01-01)Reducing residential energy use and carbon dioxide emissions is a policy concern across Europe. One of the approaches to address this problem, real-world laboratories (RwLs), has recently gained prominence as a means to ... -
Developing a sustainable food strategy for large organizations: The importance of context in shaping procurement and consumption practices
Goggins, Gary (Wiley, 2018-02-08)Organizations such as hospitals, educational institutions and workplaces feed thousands of people every day and are key intermediaries in the food system. They are in a position to significantly shape the production, ... -
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 ... -
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 ...