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ToolsStudent, Jillian, Papyrakis, Elissaios and van Beukering, Pieter (2017) Buildings behaving badly:A behavioral experiment on how different motivational frames influence residential energy label adoption in the Netherlands. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 32 (1). 107–132. ISSN 1566-4910
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Abstract
Heating buildings contributes to approximately 36% of Europe’s energy demand and several EU member states have adopted mandatory energy labels to improve energy efficiency by promoting home weatherization investments. This paper focuses on the perception of the energy label for residential buildings in the Netherlands and the role of different frames (egoistic, biospheric and social norms and neutral frames) in motivating adoption of energy labels for housing. We used a behavioral email experiment and an online survey to investigate these motivational factors. We find that biospheric frames are weaker than the other three motivational frames in terms of engaging interest in the energy label, but that the biospheric frame results in higher willingness to pay (WTP) for the energy label. We also find that age (rather than income) correlates with higher willingness to pay for home energy labels.
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| Additional Information: | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | building energy efficientcy,energy conservation,energy efficiency,(residential) energy label,motivating conservation behavior,motivational (message) framing,social norms,the netherlands,sdg 7 - affordable and clean energy ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/affordable_and_clean_energy |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development) |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Climate Change Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Globalisation and CSR |
| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Feb 2016 16:01 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Oct 2022 00:50 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/57153 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10901-016-9500-y |
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