Sustainability Transitions in the Construction Sector: A Bibliometric Review

LF Cândido, JC Lazaro, AO Freitas e Silva… - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Sustainability transition constitutes an important topic in innovation studies that have been
providing insights into contemporary sustainability issues. These insights can help us to …

'Small stories of closing loops': social circularity and the everyday circular economy

K Hobson - Climatic Change, 2020 - Springer
There is now no doubt that current global production-consumption-disposal systems are
threatening the fundamental conditions of existence on this planet. In response, the pressing …

Dragon-breath and snow-melt: Know-how, experience and heat flows in the home

S Royston - Energy Research & Social Science, 2014 - Elsevier
People manage heat flows in their homes through diverse skilful engagements, including
interactions with a wide range of materials that help to generate heat, move it around, or …

Revising the smart home as assemblage

S Maalsen - Housing Studies, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Although aspirations for the 'smart home'have existed since the 1950s, the recent
understanding of smart technological interventions as ecosystems of policy, material …

[HTML][HTML] An ethnography of energy demand and working from home: Exploring the affective dimensions of social practice in the United Kingdom

S Hampton - Energy Research & Social Science, 2017 - Elsevier
The practice of working from home has become widespread in developed countries, and the
numbers of regular home workers are steadily increasing. There are potentially positive …

[HTML][HTML] “I never look at a temperature device, I just feel it”: Practical knowledge, smart technologies, and heating and cooling practices between Denmark and …

R Martin, SPAK Larsen - Energy Research & Social Science, 2024 - Elsevier
Drawing on insights from Danish and Australian households, this article explores the role of
practical knowledge in shaping the energy-intensive practices of domestic heating and …

Visibility and security in the smart home

J Humphry, C Chesher - Convergence, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Smart home, media and security systems intervene in the territory and boundaries of the
home in a variety of ways. Among these are the capacity to watch the home from afar, and to …

Making sense of renewable energy: Practical knowledge, sensory feedback and household understandings in a Scottish island microgrid

R Martin - Energy Research & Social Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Technology-mediated energy feedback is a common demand management intervention
aiming to encourage shedding and shifting practices, whereby householders potentially …

The comfortable home and energy consumption

LV Madsen - Housing, Theory and Society, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
This paper investigates relations between notions of comfort and notions of home, aiming at
a better understanding of residential comfort and the related energy consumption …

Apartments, co-ownership and sustainability: implementation barriers for retrofitting the built environment

E Altmann - Journal of environmental policy & planning, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Environmental sustainability issues have been at the centre of urban densification and the
walkable city in Australia. While many newer developments are built with green star ratings …