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Abstract
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 generate both sustainability change and social knowledge. Yet RwLs are context-bound, and transferability is an issue for scaling up change. Drawing on Realistic Evaluation (RE) and Theories of Change (ToC), this paper analyses researchers’ and practitioners’ views on the role of contexts and change mechanisms in the outcomes of interventions targeting residential energy use. The results show that extracting the underlying logic of RwL designs could help to identify where and when these designs are likely to be transferrable. This contribution has implications for the design of future RwLs, given that RwLs have until now rarely articulated their ToC.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Gaia |
Volume | 27 |
Issue number | S1 |
Pages (from-to) | 60-67 |
Number of pages | 8 |
ISSN | 0940-5550 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 16 Mar 2018 |
MoE publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |
Fields of Science
- 517 Political science
- context dependence
- real-world laboratories
- residential energy use
- theories of change
- transferability
Projects
- 1 Finished
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ENERGISE: European Network for Research, Good Practice and Innovation for Sustainable Energy
Heiskanen, E. (Principal Investigator), Laakso, S. (Project manager), Apajalahti, E.-L. (Participant) & Matschoss, K. (Participant)
01/12/2016 → 30/11/2019
Project: Research project