Culture and Sustainability Janet Stephenson

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Take a look at these research articles* and reports using the Cultures Framework.

*Note that unless you are in an academic institution, many of these links will only take you to the abstract as they are behind a journal paywall.

Words against injustices: A deep narrative analysis of energy cultures in poverty of Abuja, Mumbai and Rio de Janeiro

Debnath, R., Bardhan, R., Darby, S., Mohaddes, K., Sunikka-Blank, M., Coelho, A. C. V., & Isa, A. (2021).
Energy Research & Social Science, 72, 101892.

Enabling Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to Become Leaders in Energy Efficiency Using a Continuous Maturity Matrix

Fatima, Z., Oksman, V., & Lahdelma, R. (2021).
Sustainability, 13(18), 10108.

Factors dominating peak electricity demand in Bangladeshi urban households: an assessment through the energy cultures framework

Khan, I. (2021).
Energy Sources, Part B: Economics, Planning, and Policy, 16(3), 279–299.

Dominant factors for targeted demand side management: An alternate approach for residential demand profiling in developing countries

Khan, I., Jack, M. W., & Stephenson, J. (2021).
Sustainable Cities and Society, 67, 102693.

Managing the duck curve: Energy culture and participation in local energy management programs in the United States

Krietemeyer, B., Dedrick, J., Sabaghian, E., & Rakha, T. (2021).
Energy Research & Social Science, 102055.

On Common Ground: How landlords & tenants shape thermal performance of private rental properties

Nicholas, L. (2021).
Masters Thesis, University of Otago.

Towards sustainable energy culture in the industrial sector: introducing an interdisciplinary method for understanding energy culture in business industries

Oksman, V., Reda, F., Karjalainen, S., & Fatima, Z. (2021).
Energy, Sustainability and Society, 11(1), 1–13.

Energy cultures and national decarbonisation pathways

Stephenson, J. R., Sovacool, B. K., & Inderberg, T. H. J. (2021).
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 137(October 2020), 110592.

Faces of stone: environmental history and cultures of Paha Sapa (The Black Hills), USA

Stovall, W. R. (2021).
PhD Thesis, University of Otago, New Zealand.

Solar electricity cultures: Household adoption dynamics and energy policy in Switzerland.

Bach, L., Hopkins, D., & Stephenson, J. (2020).
Energy Research and Social Science, 63, 101395.

When I was your age: generational effects on long-run residential energy consumption in Italy.

Bardazzi, R., & Pazienza, M. G. (2020).
Energy Research & Social Science, 70, 101611.

The energy cultures framework: understanding material culture barriers to the uptake of natural gas

Binney, M., & Grigg, N. (2020).
Journal of Asia Entrepreneurship and Sustainability, 16(5), 105–139.

Applying the energy cultures framework to understand energy systems in the context of rural sustainability transformation

Klaniecki, K., Duse, I. A., Lutz, L. M., Leventon, J., & Abson, D. J. (2020).
Energy Policy, 137, 111092.

Changing energy cultures? Household energy use before and after a building energy efficiency retrofit

Rau, H., Moran, P., Manton, R., & Goggins, J. (2020).
Sustainable Cities and Society, 54, 101983.

Sustainability Cultures: Exploring the Relationships Between Cultural Attributes and Sustainability Outcomes.

Stephenson, J. (2020).
In Katharine Legun, Julie Keller, Michael Bell, Michael Carolan (Eds) Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology. Cambridge University Press. Pp 236-248.