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Achieving a [`]step-change' in energy efficiency behaviours will require enhanced knowledge of behavioural drivers, and translation of this knowledge into successful intervention programmes. The [`]Energy Cultures' conceptual framework aims to assist in understanding the factors that influence energy consumption behaviour, and to help identify opportunities for behaviour change. Building on a history of attempts to offer multi-disciplinary integrating models of energy behaviour, we take a culture-based approach to behaviour, while drawing also from lifestyles and systems thinking. The framework provides a structure for addressing the problem of multiple interpretations of [`]behaviour' by suggesting that it is influenced...
Using the theory of the firm, the effects of unbalanced rates of output growth on aggregate energy demand are examined. Theoretical results show that failure to consider unbalanced growth leads to bias in aggregate price elasticity estimates. Empirically, differential output growth rates are important contributors to the overall growth of energy and other inputs; they can be as important as net price effects in explaining input growth. Unbalanced growth effects help to explain changes in labor’s productivity growth and have increased in importance since the Arab oil embargo. They are quite significant relative to other sources of change during business cycle downturns.