Foulds, Chris and Royston, Sarah and Berker, Thomas and Nakopoulou, Efi and Pervez Bharucha, Zareen and Robison, Rosie and Abram, Simone and Ančić, Branko and Arapostathis, Stathis and Badescu, Gabriel and Bull, Richard and Cohen, Jed and Dunlop, Tessa and Dunphy, Niall and Dupont, Claire and Fischer, Corinna and Gram-Hanssen, Kirsten and Grandclément, Catherine and Heiskanen, Eva and Labanca, Nicola and Jeliazkova, Maria and Jörgens, Helge and Keller, Margit and Kern, Florian and Lombardi, Patrizia and Mourik, Ruth and Ornetzeder, Michael and Pearson, Peter J. G. and Rohracher, Harald and Sahakian, Marlyne and Sari, Ramazan and Standal, Karina and Živčič, Lidija (2022) An agenda for future Social Sciences and Humanities research on energy efficiency: 100 priority research questions. Humanities and social sciences communications, 9. pp. 1-18. ISSN 2662-9992
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IN ENGLISH: Decades of techno-economic energy policymaking and research have meant evidence from the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH)—including critical reflections on what changing a society’s relation to energy (efficiency) even means—have been underutilised. In particular, (i) the SSH have too often been sidelined and/or narrowly pigeonholed by policymakers, funders, and other decision-makers when driving research agendas, and (ii) the setting of SSH-focused research agendas has not historically embedded inclusive and deliberative processes. The aim of this paper is to address these gaps through the production of a research agenda outlining future SSH research priorities for energy efficiency. A Horizon Scanning exercise was run, which sought to identify 100 priority SSH questions for energy efficiency research. This exercise included 152 researchers with prior SSH expertise on energy efficiency, who together spanned 62 (sub-)disciplines of SSH, 23 countries, and a full range of career stages. The resultant questions were inductively clustered into seven themes as follows: (1) Citizenship, engagement and knowledge exchange in relation to energy efficiency; (2) Energy efficiency in relation to equity, justice, poverty and vulnerability; (3) Energy efficiency in relation to everyday life and practices of energy consumption and production; (4) Framing, defining and measuring energy efficiency; (5) Governance, policy and political issues around energy efficiency; (6) Roles of economic systems, supply chains and financial mechanisms in improving energy efficiency; and (7) The interactions, unintended consequences and rebound effects of energy efficiency interventions. Given the consistent centrality of energy efficiency in policy programmes, this paper highlights that well-developed SSH approaches are ready to be mobilised to contribute to the development, and/or to understand the implications, of energy efficiency measures and governance solutions. Implicitly, it also emphasises the heterogeneity of SSH policy evidence that can be produced. The agenda will be of use for both (1) those new to the energy-SSH field (including policyworkers), for learnings on the capabilities and capacities of energy-SSH, and (2) established energy-SSH researchers, for insights on the collectively held futures of energy-SSH research. --------------- IN CROATIAN: Desetljeća donošenja tehnološko-ekonomskih energetskih politika i istraživanja energetike obilježena su nedovoljnom iskorištenošću dokaza iz društvenih i humanističkih znanosti, što uključuje i kritičke osvrte na to što uopće podrazumijeva mijenjanje odnosa društva prema energetskoj učinkovitosti. Konkretno, (i) društveno-humanističke znanosti predugo su gurali u stranu ili preusko tematski definirali donositelji politika, financijeri i drugi koji su odlučivali o upravljanju istraživačkim programima, i (ii) okruženje društveno-humanističkih istraživačkih programa nije u prošlosti uključivalo inkluzivne i savjetodavne procese. Svrha ovoga rada je premostiti te razlike stvaranjem istraživačkog programa koji će naznačiti buduće prioritete društveno-humanističkih istraživanja energetske učinkovitosti. Primijenjena je vježba Horizon Scanning, kojom je identificirano 100 prioritetnih društveno-humanističkih (D-H) istraživačkih pitanja za istraživanje energetske učinkovitosti. Vježba je uključivala 152 istraživača s prijašnjim D-H iskustvom vezanim za energetsku učinkovitost, raspoređenih u 62 D-H (pod)discipline, iz 23 države i u svim stadijima karijere. Dobivena pitanja induktivno su podijeljena u sedam tematskih klastera: (1) Građanstvo, uključenost i razmjena znanja o energetskoj učinkovitosti; (2) Energetska učinkovitost u odnosu na jednakost, pravednost, siromaštvo i ranjivost; (3) Energetska učinkovitost u odnosu na svakodnevni život i prakse proizvodnje i potrošnje energije; (4) Smještanje u okvir, definiranje i mjerenje energetske učinkovitosti; (5) Upravljanje, javne politike i politička pitanja u vezi s energetskom učinkovitosti; (6) Uloge gospodarskih sustava, lanaca opskrbe i financijskih mehanizama u unaprjeđivanju energetske učinkovitosti; i (7) Interakcije, nenamjeravane posljedice i povratni učinci intervencija vezanih za energetsku učinkovitost. S obzirom na to da je energetska učinkovitost konzistentno središnje pitanje u programima javnih politika, ovim se radom ističe da su dobro razvijeni D-H pristupi spremni za mobilizaciju kako bi doprinijeli razvoju mjera i upravljačkih odluka vezanih za energetsku učinkovitost, i/ili razumijevanju njihovih implikacija. Implicitno, rad naglašava heterogenost dokaza za D-H politike do kojih se može doći. Program će koristiti s jedne strane (1) onima kojima je D-H područje energetike novo (uključujući praktičare javnih politika) za učenje o mogućnostima i kapacitetima D-H energetike, a s druge i (2) etabliranim istraživačima D-H energetike za uvide u zajedničku budućnost istraživanja u tom području.
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| Additional Information: | Language: English. - Title in Croatian: Program za buduća društveno-humanistička istraživanja energetske učinkovitosti: 100 prioritetnih istraživačkih pitanja. - Article number: 223. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Environmental studies, geography, politics and international relations, science, technology and society, sociology (istraživanje okoliša, geografija, politika i međunarodni odnosi, znanost, tehnologija i društvo, sociologija) |
| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General) G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences H Social Sciences > HM Sociology J Political Science > JA Political science (General) J Political Science > JZ International relations Q Science > Q Science (General) T Technology > T Technology (General) |
| Depositing User: | Karolina |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Jul 2022 09:12 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Jul 2022 12:38 |
| URI: | http://idiprints.knjiznica.idi.hr/id/eprint/1025 |
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