Energy consumption behaviour: rational or habitual?

Davoudi, Simin; Dilley, Luke; Crawford, Jenny

doi:10.1080/02513625.2014.979039

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“…A new rule or 'planning slogan' (Gunder, 2010: 207) can unsettle the old. It may reveal what is hidden in planners' mundane routines, make them amenable to conscious deliberations and, hence, lead to new habit formation (Davoudi et al, 2014).…”

Section: Practice Of Knowing Is Mediated and Contestedmentioning

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Planning as practice of knowing

2015

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It is often suggested that a defining feature of planning is its interventionist nature which requires connecting knowledge to action. With the upsurge of evidence-based planning, much is rehearsed about the utilitarian necessity of making such connection. What is less widely discussed is the epistemological nuances and challenges of knowledge-action relationship. This essay aims to contribute to the latter by conceptualising planning as practice of knowing. This is to shift the focus from knowledge as something that planners have to knowing as something that planners do. I would argue that, rather than thinking about knowledge as having an instrumental place in planning, it is more useful to think about planning as practice of knowing that involves knowing what, knowing how, knowing to what end and doing. Seen in this way, practice of knowing is a dynamic process that is situated and provisional, collective and distributed, purposive and pragmatic, and mediated and contested.

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Section: Practice Of Knowing Is Mediated and Contestedmentioning

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2015

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“…These motives are similar to the self--enhancement values in the Schwartz Theory of Basic Values discussed earlier [182]. Specific to PEB, Davoudi et al identify concern for oneself as a major antecedent of energy consumption behavior [49]. Three of the six drivers of product utility identified in a study of consumer purchasing behavior, productivity, simplicity, and convenience, can be categorized as egoistic [30].…”

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“…This study is often cited to support that habits can be broken, if people try new behavior and learn that the new behavior has more positive consequences than they anticipated. Davoudi et al (2014) investigated rational versus habitual aspects of energy consumption behavior. They prioritized the forming of new habits consistent with PEB, as this may elevate related behaviors from practical or routine to "discursive (intentional, goal---oriented) consciousness" at the community rather than individual level [49].…”

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Design for reduced resource consumption during the use phase of products

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Much work on sustainable design has focused on product manufacture/assembly and end of life. Gains in products' technical efficiency address the use phase, but how these products are used clearly affects resource consumption. There are two main approaches to design interventions to reduce resource consumption during product life. Firstly, interventions aim to change user behavior, through information and feedback, as well as physical product affordances abstracted from lead users to guide or steer users toward the desired behavior. Secondly, automatic adjustment of product systems performance levels based on personal user profiles and anticipated usage is implemented using artificial intelligence techniques.

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“…. ]" [60] (p.14). Accordingly, end-users may either be willed to "invest cognitive effort in the decision-making process" or they may act out of habit [61] (p. 1936).…”

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Modelling End-User Behavior and Behavioral Change in Smart Grids. An Application of the Model of Frame Selection

2020

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This paper presents an agent-based model (ABM) for residential end-users, which is part of a larger, interdisciplinary co-simulation framework that helps to investigate the performance of future power distribution grids (i.e., smart grid scenarios). Different modes of governance (strong, soft and self-organization) as well as end-users’ heterogeneous behavior represent key influential factors. Feedback was implemented as a measure to foster grid-beneficial behavior, which encompasses a range of monetary and non-monetary incentives (e.g., via social comparison). The model of frame selection (MFS) serves as theoretical background for modelling end-users’ decision-making. Additionally, we conducted an online survey to ground the end-user sub-model on empirical data. Despite these empirical and theoretical foundations, the model presented should be viewed as a conceptual framework, which requires further data collection. Using an example scenario, representing a lowly populated residential area (167 households) with a high share of photovoltaic systems (30%), different modes of governance were compared with regard to their suitability for improving system stability (measured in cumulated load). Both soft and strong control were able to decrease overall fluctuations as well as the mean cumulated load (by approx. 10%, based on weekly observation). However, we argue that soft control could be sufficient and more societally desirable.

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Energy consumption behaviour: rational or habitual?

Cited by 13 publications

References 50 publications

Planning as practice of knowing

Planning as practice of knowing

Design for reduced resource consumption during the use phase of products

Modelling End-User Behavior and Behavioral Change in Smart Grids. An Application of the Model of Frame Selection

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