Buildings are key in supporting human activities and well-being by providing shelter and
other important services to their users. Buildings are, however, also responsible for major …

Ambitious climate mitigation policies face social and political resistance. One reason is that
existing policies insufficiently capture the diversity of relevant insights from the social …

Mitigation solutions are often evaluated in terms of costs and greenhouse gas reduction
potentials, missing out on the consideration of direct effects on human well-being. Here, we …

Assessment of the social science literature and regional case studies reveals how social
norms, culture, and individual choices, interact with infrastructure and other structural …

Chapter 3 takes a long-term perspective on climate change mitigation pathways. Its focus is
on the implications of long-term targets for the required short-and medium-term system …

Households are responsible for 70% of CO 2 emissions (directly and indirectly). While
households as agents of change increasingly become a crucial element in energy …

Buildings account for 36% of global final energy demand and are key to mitigating climate
change. Assessing the evolution of the global building stock and its energy demand is …

Substantial reductions in carbon emissions are necessary to control global warming.
However, the low capacity of individual companies to reduce emissions can constrain the …

Households are responsible for a significant share of global greenhouse emissions. Hence,
academic and policy discourses highlight behavioral changes among households as an …

There has so far been no shared understanding of validity in agent-based simulation. We
here conceptualise validation as systematically substantiating the premises on which …