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As the residential buildings sector accounts for around 30 percent of the final energy demand in Germany, this sector is increasingly becoming the focus of public attention with regard to climate change. In this book, decisions on energy consumption by private households are examined. The analyses are based on several empirical methods. The results show that the road to more sustainable energy consumption in residential buildings is not hampered by a lack of will on behalf of the consumers. However one should be realistic that there are many instances where improving thermal institution involves additional economic costs for individual households.

This article examines how local experiments and negotiation processes contribute to social and field-level learning. The analysis is framed within the niche development literature, which offers a framework for analyzing the relation between projects in local contexts and the transfer of local experiences into generally applicable rules. The authors examine 2 case studies drawn from a meta-analysis of 27 new energy projects. The case studies, both pertaining to biogas projects for local municipalities, illustrate the diversity of applications for a technology through processes of local variation and selection. The authors examine the diversity of expectations and the negotiation and alignment of these expectations underlying the diversity of local solutions. Moreover, the authors address how the transfer of lessons from individual local experiments can follow different pathways and yet always require due attention to the social and cultural limits to the transferability of solutions.

Das Erreichen ambitionierter Nachhaltigkeitsziele ist nur mit Hilfe sozio-technischer Transformationen möglich. Aber wie kann der dringend notwendige Umbruch – zeitlich und gesellschaftlich angemessen – initiiert und unterstützt werden? Und welche Gesellschaftsbereiche und Stakeholder müssen berücksichtigt werden? Das Buch bietet eine Aufarbeitung des aktuellen Forschungstandes, ergänzt durch praktische Fallbeispiele. Die Ergebnisse der Analyse werden in einer Heuristik zusammengeführt. So werden unter anderem die gesellschaftlichen Teil-Systeme, die im Rahmen einer Transformation adressiert werden sollten, zusammengestellt und ihre Bedeutung erläutert. Zusätzlich werden Governance-Herausforderungen, die sich aus dem speziellen Charakter von Transformationsprozessen ergeben, identifiziert. Das Buch bietet sowohl neue Ansätze für die Transformationsforschung als auch wichtige Erkenntnisse und Beispiele für all jene Akteure, die ein Interesse an der Initiierung und dem Management von Transformationen haben

Many environmental problems have been successfully resolved in recent decades. However some are persistent and prove difficult to solve, and new ones have been added. Environmental problems can be particularly persistent if their causes are closely linked to the way we do business, to central aspects of our society or to lifestyles that are perceived as attractive. This guide can help staff in the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU ) to tackle such environmental problems. For this purpose, approaches to "transformative environmental policy" are presented.