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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102200
	Beyond climate; culture and comfort in European preferences for low-carbon heat
	Sovacool B.K.; Demski C.; Noel L.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	0094-8276
卷号	66
英文摘要	It is imperative that climate, energy, and sustainability policy researchers and practitioners grapple with the difficulty of decarbonizing heat, which remains the largest single end-use energy service worldwide. In this study, based on a comparative assessment of five original and representative national surveys in Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom (N = 10,109), we explore public attitudes of household heat decarbonization in Europe. We explore how people conceive of the purposes of low-carbon heat, their preferences for particular forms of heat supply, and their (at times odd) practices of heat consumption and temperature settings. The data reveal four significant challenges to heat decarbonization that are consistent across geographies: 1) High satisfaction with existing, often fossil fuel based, heating systems; 2) Varying and divergent preferences and expectations for thermal comfort; 3) Householders unlikely to change their heating system in the near-term, in part driven by low familiarity and knowledge of alternative systems; and 4) heat satisfaction appears lower as the fuel mix is decarbonized. The paper concludes by connecting these findings with policy and research implications. © 2020 The Author(s)
语种	英语
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/170907
作者单位	Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), School of Business, Management, and Economics, University of Sussex, United Kingdom; Center for Energy Technologies, Department of Business Development and Technology, Aarhus University, Denmark; Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Sovacool B.K.,Demski C.,Noel L.. Beyond climate; culture and comfort in European preferences for low-carbon heat[J],2021,66.
APA	Sovacool B.K.,Demski C.,&Noel L..(2021).Beyond climate; culture and comfort in European preferences for low-carbon heat.Global Environmental Change,66.
MLA	Sovacool B.K.,et al."Beyond climate; culture and comfort in European preferences for low-carbon heat".Global Environmental Change 66(2021).