This paper explores conceptualisations of households in sustainability transitions. Existing
literature in the field has only engaged with households in a limited and fragmented way …

Energy Consumption monitoring technology (ECMT) can effectively reduce the energy
consumption of public buildings (PB) in the operational phase, but it is not used widely in …

Academics are increasingly expected to produce concrete and directly applicable solutions
to hard-to-solve 'real-world problems' such as poverty, development, and environmental …

Rapid urbanization poses a significant challenge of accommodating the poor, particularly in
developing countries such as China where affordable housing has only been initiated a few …

Stimulating innovation and encouraging green development require different policy
instruments, implying that an effective combination of these instruments is critical for …

Local governments in China actively promote low carbon city pilots to respond to the
challenges of climate change mentioned in the Sustainable Development Goals, including …

Household consumption patterns contribute to climate change. Therefore, an understanding
of the drivers of household consumption (food, housing, travel, services, and tangibles) and …

Public support is usually a precondition for the adoption and successful implementation of
costly policies. We argue that such support is easier to achieve with policy-packages that …

China has established three rounds of low-carbon pilot city initiatives. However, a gap exists
between policy making and successful implementation, and the effects on greenhouse gas …

The current patterns of household consumption are environmentally unsustainable,
especially in wealthy societies such as the Nordic countries. Globally, housing and energy …