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The impacts of household behaviors and housing choice on residential energy consumption.

机译：家庭行为和住房选择对住宅能耗的影响。

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Despite efforts made in the past decade to curb excessive energy consumption and the corresponding greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, both energy consumption and GHG emissions are expected to increase in coming years. Not only does such increasing trends epitomize the escalating, enduring human contribution to global warming, it verifies that our current policies are not working, at least not as well as expected or hoped.;Globally, approximately a quarter of our total energy consumption is in the home, almost as much as in any other sector. Yet an understanding of the processes, determinants, and consequences of household energy consumption remains elusive. Conventional research on residential energy consumption has often applied linear methodologies and overwhelmingly focused on physical attributes of the housing stocks and systems. This approach, therefore, has failed: 1) to provide a coherent perspective of energy consumption processes, and 2) to account for the role of household behaviors. Accordingly, conventional energy policy has been left without the essential understanding of the phenomenon that would allow it to take effective action.;To rectify issues with conventional research and policy, this research applies a non-linear and interdisciplinary approach to household energy consumption as an outcome of housing consumption and choice behaviors. Using data from the latest Residential Energy Consumption Survey, I use a set of Structural Equation Models to estimate the direct, indirect, and total effects of household and housing characteristics on energy use. Outcomes demonstrate that household characteristics have an indirect effect on energy consumption by influencing housing unit attributes, the housing choice effect on energy consumption. That is, a household's choice of housing unit has a permanent effect on the household's energy consumption, as an outcome, up until they relocate. Results of this study show that, accounting for the housing choice effects, the overall effect of household characteristics on energy consumption is almost twice as important as anticipated by conventional research.;This study's findings highlight the role of housing choice and consumption behaviors in shaping residential energy consumption patterns. Energy consumption is expected to increase due to inevitable sociodemographic and economic changes. In addition to investing in improved building efficiencies and technologies, smart energy policies aimed at reducing energy consumption should promote more sustainable housing consumption behaviors and provide better housing choices.
机译：尽管在过去十年中为抑制过多的能源消耗和相应的温室气体（GHG）排放做出了努力，但预计未来几年能源消耗和GHG排放都将增加。这种不断增长的趋势不仅体现了人类对全球变暖不断增长的，持久的贡献，而且还证明了我们当前的政策没有奏效，至少没有达到预期或希望的水平。全球，约有四分之一的能源消耗在家庭，几乎与其他任何部门一样多。然而，对家庭能源消耗的过程，决定因素和后果的了解仍然难以捉摸。关于住宅能源消耗的常规研究通常采用线性方法，并且绝大多数关注住房存量和系统的物理属性。因此，这种方法失败了：1）提供能源消耗过程的连贯视角，以及2）解释家庭行为的作用。因此，传统的能源政策对这一现象缺乏本质的了解，无法采取有效的行动。为了纠正传统研究和政策的问题，本研究将非线性和跨学科方法应用于家庭能源消耗住房消费和选择行为的结果。利用最新的住宅能耗调查中的数据，我使用了一组结构方程模型来估算家庭和住房特征对能源使用的直接，间接和总体影响。结果表明，家庭特征通过影响住房单位属性（住房选择对能源消耗的影响）对能源消耗产生间接影响。也就是说，家庭的住房单位选择对家庭的能源消耗有永久性的影响，因此直到他们搬迁为止。这项研究的结果表明，考虑到住房选择的影响，家庭特征对能源消耗的总体影响几乎是传统研究预期的两倍。;该研究的结果突出了住房选择和消费行为在塑造住宅方面的作用能源消耗模式。由于不可避免的社会人口和经济变化，预计能源消耗将增加。除了投资于提高建筑效率和技术外，旨在减少能耗的智能能源政策还应促进更可持续的住房消费行为并提供更好的住房选择。

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    Estiri, Hossein.;

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    University of Washington.;

  • 授予单位 University of Washington.;
  • 学科 Urban planning.;Public policy.;Energy.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2014
  • 页码 160 p.
  • 总页数 160
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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