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Building owner vs. energy user: a split incentive for energy reduction: Attitudes and behaviours of building owners and users: the key driver of energy consumption in UK non-domestic buildings - Couverture souple

Emblen-Perry, Kay

 
9783659873256: Building owner vs. energy user: a split incentive for energy reduction: Attitudes and behaviours of building owners and users: the key driver of energy consumption in UK non-domestic buildings
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ISBN 10 : 365987325X ISBN 13 : 9783659873256
Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

The UK’s historically low cost of energy has encouraged a culture that considers energy to be in limitless supply and excessive levels of consumption acceptable. Now that supplies are becoming restricted and costs rising, it is becoming recognised this energy culture has created a legacy stock of buildings with poor building fabric, limited energy efficiency equipment and even lower levels of energy awareness. Cost effective technologies are readily available but not adopted by UK SMEs in non-domestic buildings, as rational economic theory would expect. Policy-makers attribute this to inaccessibility of information and investment and design policies accordingly. However, as escalation of demand continues an alternative driver of this paradox must exist. This research hypothesises that this is the ownership structures of non-domestic buildings. Tenure of business premises is found to prevent adoption of energy conservation opportunities; 64% of SME surveyed encountered barriers to energy efficiency related to building ownership. When increased pro rata to reflect the UK SME population, almost 2.5 million businesses appear unable to benefit from energy improvements.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The UK’s historically low cost of energy has encouraged a culture that considers energy to be in limitless supply and excessive levels of consumption acceptable. Now that supplies are becoming restricted and costs rising, it is becoming recognised this energy culture has created a legacy stock of buildings with poor building fabric, limited energy efficiency equipment and even lower levels of energy awareness. Cost effective technologies are readily available but not adopted by UK SMEs in non-domestic buildings, as rational economic theory would expect. Policy-makers attribute this to inaccessibility of information and investment and design policies accordingly. However, as escalation of demand continues an alternative driver of this paradox must exist. This research hypothesises that this is the ownership structures of non-domestic buildings. Tenure of business premises is found to prevent adoption of energy conservation opportunities; 64% of SME surveyed encountered barriers to energy efficiency related to building ownership. When increased pro rata to reflect the UK SME population, almost 2.5 million businesses appear unable to benefit from energy improvements.

Biographie de l'auteur

Dr Kay Emblen-Perry is Senior Lecturer of Sustainable Management at Worcester Business School. Her work is focused on the impact of the barriers to energy efficiency inherent in UK non-domestic building tenure and how to overcome them. Kay is a Doctor of Environmental Management, has an MSc from Coventry University and an MBA from Aston University

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Éditeur
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
365987325X
ISBN 13 
9783659873256
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
248
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