Chapter 1.3

Beyond energy behaviour: A broader way to see people for climate change technology planning

Mithra Moezzia; Loren Lutzenhiserb    a QQForward, Marin County, CA, United Statesb Portland State University, Portland, OR, United States

Abstract

People have finally been more widely recognised as important determinants of what energy technologies do. There is now modest attention to people’s roles in achieving ambitious goals for energy transitions being set in the name of climate change. Among nonspecialists, understanding of how people matter often centres on individual behaviour. The shorthanding of people to ‘behaviour’ is a disservice to multi- and cross-disciplinary work, one that sets people as an afterthought to technology-centred ...

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