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Thinking about ‘Energy Behaviour’: a multi model approach

This paper introduces the reader to different ways of thinking about the way that people use energy. It draws on evidence from behavioural economics…

• From: Department of Energy & Climate Change
• Published: 16 December 2011

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

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This paper introduces the reader to different ways of thinking about the way that people use energy. It draws on evidence from behavioural economics, social psychology and sociology to examine different ways of changing ‘energy behaviour’. The paper draws on some of the key models and theories of behaviour change, in relation to energy, and presents them in a way that policies can take them into account.

Published 16 December 2011