Charlie Wilson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3704850 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Charlie Wilson |
| NOMBRES | Charlie |
| APELLIDO | Wilson |
| FIRMA | WILSON C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of East Anglia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8164-3566 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 161 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1992 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Dynamic micro-simulation of domestic electricity consumption
Agent-based modelling enables the simulation of household energy consumption at the individual level, considering heterogeneity, interactions and dynamics. However, existing agent-based domestic energy consumption models fail to capture the influence of associated urban subsystems (e.g., population and land use). To fill this gap, we develop an empirically based electricity consumption model and integrate it into an urban microsimulation platform…
Irreversibility in climate action
Towards an integrated understanding of circularity, urban design, planetary stability and well-being
Circularity strategies are increasingly recognized as essential for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and improving material efficiency in urban environments. However, existing approaches often analyze sectors in isolation, limiting their ability to capture systemic interactions and spatial dependencies. In this study, we introduce the Integrated Urban Circularity (INTURC) framework that integrates construction, building energy use, transpo…
Reconsidering convenience
On-demand digital services provide convenient and fast fulfilment of consumption. From their emergence in media, on-demand digital services have expanded in ride-hailing, food delivery and retail. While there is abundant research on digitalisation in various consumption sectors, few have identified the interrelations between digital services across multiple consumption sectors and their implications for consumption behaviours. Using domestication…
Prospects for public participation in energy transitions in Canada
In Canada, climate change and the rising cost of fossil fuel‐based energy are driving a transition to cleaner local energy systems—combining renewable energy, storage, and smart devices. While these technologies are important, without public support and participation, they will not ensure a just and sustainable transition. In this context, we analyze data from a nationally representative survey (n = 941) of Canadians’ views towards local energy s…
Harnessing social tipping dynamics
Social tipping points are promising levers for accelerating decarbonization progress. They describe how social, political, economic, or technological systems can move rapidly into a new state if positive feedback mechanisms are triggered. Analyzing the potential for social tipping requires the inherent complexity of social systems to be considered. Yet the growing social tipping literature is missing a practical framework that embeds conceptual a…
Energy democracy, public participation, and support for local energy system change in Canada
In the face of climate change and associated energy system change, there is a growing literature and more general recognition of the ‘four Ds’ (decarbonization, decentralization, digitalization, and democratization). Yet there has been very little quantitative work that analyzes public perceptions of these changes. Utilizing data from a Canada-wide, nationally representative survey (n = 941), this study conducted provincial and regional assessmen…
Clear support for an unclear concept? Public attitudes towards local energy systems in the United Kingdom
Decentralisation offers one route to energy system decarbonisation, and local energy systems (LES) provide focal points for decentralisation. LES involve the integration of different generation, storage, and demand-side technologies across heat, power, and transport systems, within defined localities. Public support is necessary for LES deployment at pace and scale, but while past research has examined public attitudes towards individual technolo…
Endogenous simulation of low-carbon lifestyle change in global climate mitigation pathways
Global Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) used to characterise mitigation pathways have very limited or no formal representation of lifestyles and lifestyle change. We demonstrate a novel approach to endogenously simulating low-carbon lifestyle heterogeneity and lifestyle change through soft-coupling with our new empirically-based LIFE model. Coupling LIFE to global IAMs enables dynamic simulation of distinctive lifestyle change contributions to…
A framework for measuring and modelling low-carbon lifestyles
Lifestyle is an integral and inevitable feature of transformation pathways consistent with the Paris Climate Agreement and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Studies differentiating lifestyle types, clusters, or segments vary in their focus, purpose, reach, generalizability and availability. Universal frameworks are largely proprietary in nature, developed and used by market research companies for targeted communication and behaviour c…
The discontinuance of low carbon digital products and services
Digital consumer innovations offer low-carbon alternatives to mainstream consumption practices. We address a lack of research on the factors influencing post-adoption decisions of discontinuance for this important class of innovations. We conducted a repeat survey with UK consumers (n = 995) in 2019 and 2020 to investigate 16 digital products and services across mobility, food, homes, and energy domains. Our survey captured temporal changes in ad…
Local conditions for the decentralization of energy systems
Local energy systems (LES) are designed to decarbonize, balance, and coordinate supply, storage and demand resources. Which local conditions enable LES to flourish? Using a unique dataset of 146 LES projects in the UK from 2010 to 2020, we apply econometric methods to identify energy, institutional and socio-economic conditions significantly associated with LES, but not other local energy forms. We show distributed power generation, low-carbon in…
Advancing energy and well-being research
Social networks and communication behaviour underlying smart home adoption in the UK
Are low-carbon innovations appealing? A typology of functional, symbolic, private and public attributes
A low energy demand scenario for meeting the 1.5 °C target and sustainable development goals without negative emission technologies
Learning to live in a smart home
Smart homes promise to significantly enhance domestic comfort, convenience, security and leisure whilst simultaneously reducing energy use through optimized home energy management. Their ability to achieve these multiple aims rests fundamentally on how they are used by householders, yet very little is currently known about this topic. The few studies that have explored the use of smart homes have tended to focus on special-interest groups and be …
Comparing future patterns of energy system change in 2 °C scenarios to expert projections
Benefits and risks of smart home technologies
Smart homes are a priority area of strategic energy planning and national policy. The market adoption of smart home technologies (SHTs) relies on prospective users perceiving clear benefits with acceptable levels of risk. This paper characterises the perceived benefits and risks of SHTs from multiple perspectives. A representative national survey of UK homeowners (n=1025) finds prospective users have positive perceptions of the multiple functiona…
Critical perspectives on disruptive innovation and energy transformation
Disruptive low-carbon innovations
Social influence in the global diffusion of alternative fuel vehicles – A meta-analysis
Modelling social influence and cultural variation in global low-carbon vehicle transitions
Apples, oranges, and consistent comparisons of the temporal dynamics of energy transitions
Diagnostic indicators for integrated assessment models of climate policy
Measuring the duration of formative phases for energy technologies
Apples, oranges, and consistent comparisons of the temporal dynamics of energy transitions
Why do homeowners renovate energy efficiently? Contrasting perspectives and implications for policy
This paper contrasts two perspectives on energy efficient home renovations from applied behavioural research on energy efficiency and from sociological research on homes and domestic life. Applied behavioural research characterises drivers and barriers to cost-effective renovations, and identifies personal and contextual influences on homeowners’ renovation decisions. Research findings inform policies to promote energy efficiency by removing barr…
Social influence in the global diffusion of alternative fuel vehicles – A meta-analysis
Comparing future patterns of energy system change in 2 °C scenarios with historically observed rates of change
Social networks and communication behaviour underlying smart home adoption in the UK
Disruptive low-carbon innovations
Modelling social influence and cultural variation in global low-carbon vehicle transitions
Trends in investments in global energy research, development, and demonstration
Recent national trends in investments in global energy research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) are inconsistent around the world. Public RD&D investments in energy are the metric most commonly used in international comparative assessments of energy‐technology innovation, and the metric employed in this article. Overall, the data indicate that International Energy Agency (IEA) member country government investments have been volatile: they …
Energy democracy, public participation, and support for local energy system change in Canada
In the face of climate change and associated energy system change, there is a growing literature and more general recognition of the ‘four Ds’ (decarbonization, decentralization, digitalization, and democratization). Yet there has been very little quantitative work that analyzes public perceptions of these changes. Utilizing data from a Canada-wide, nationally representative survey (n = 941), this study conducted provincial and regional assessmen…
Comparing future patterns of energy system change in 2 °C scenarios to expert projections
A framework for measuring and modelling low-carbon lifestyles
Lifestyle is an integral and inevitable feature of transformation pathways consistent with the Paris Climate Agreement and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Studies differentiating lifestyle types, clusters, or segments vary in their focus, purpose, reach, generalizability and availability. Universal frameworks are largely proprietary in nature, developed and used by market research companies for targeted communication and behaviour c…
Critical perspectives on disruptive innovation and energy transformation
Multiple Models to Inform Climate Change Policy
We have followed with interest the debate in this journal between Shove (2010; 2011) and Whitmarsh & colleagues (2011) on contrasting theoretical approaches and representations of pro-environmental behaviour and social change, and of the potential, rationale and merit of interdisciplinarity or integration. In this commentary, we offer a pragmatic response to the issues being debated from the perspective of policymakers concerned with near-term re…
Local conditions for the decentralization of energy systems
Local energy systems (LES) are designed to decarbonize, balance, and coordinate supply, storage and demand resources. Which local conditions enable LES to flourish? Using a unique dataset of 146 LES projects in the UK from 2010 to 2020, we apply econometric methods to identify energy, institutional and socio-economic conditions significantly associated with LES, but not other local energy forms. We show distributed power generation, low-carbon in…
Are low-carbon innovations appealing? A typology of functional, symbolic, private and public attributes
Promoting the Commercialization of Energy Innovations
This paper presents the results of an evaluation of the US Department of Energy's Energy-Related Inventions Program (ERIP). ERIP provides small grants and technical assistance to small businesses and independent inventors attempting to develop and commercialize new energy technologies. The primary purpose of this evaluation is to assess the effectiveness of ERIP in moving these technologies from the laboratory bench to the marketplace. A secondar…
Demonstrations
A Strategy for Sustainable Mobility
Models of Decision Making and Residential Energy Use
Research traditions across the social sciences have explored the drivers of individual behavior and proposed different models of decision making. Four diverse perspectives are reviewed here: conventional and behavioral economics, technology adoption theory and attitude-based decision making, social and environmental psychology, and sociology. The individual decision models in these traditions differ axiomatically. Some are founded on informed rat…
Trends in investments in global energy research, development, and demonstration
Recent national trends in investments in global energy research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) are inconsistent around the world. Public RD&D investments in energy are the metric most commonly used in international comparative assessments of energy‐technology innovation, and the metric employed in this article. Overall, the data indicate that International Energy Agency (IEA) member country government investments have been volatile: they …
Multiple Models to Inform Climate Change Policy
We have followed with interest the debate in this journal between Shove (2010; 2011) and Whitmarsh & colleagues (2011) on contrasting theoretical approaches and representations of pro-environmental behaviour and social change, and of the potential, rationale and merit of interdisciplinarity or integration. In this commentary, we offer a pragmatic response to the issues being debated from the perspective of policymakers concerned with near-term re…
Diagnostic indicators for integrated assessment models of climate policy
Integrated assessments of how climate policy interacts with energy-economy systems can be performed by a variety of models with different functional structures. In order to provide insights into why results differ between models, this article proposes a diagnostic scheme that can be applied to a wide range of models. Diagnostics can uncover patterns of model behavior and indicate how results differ between model types. Such insights are informati…
Smart homes and their users
The influence of contextual cues on the perceived status of consumption-reducing behavior
Why do homeowners renovate energy efficiently? Contrasting perspectives and implications for policy
This paper contrasts two perspectives on energy efficient home renovations from applied behavioural research on energy efficiency and from sociological research on homes and domestic life. Applied behavioural research characterises drivers and barriers to cost-effective renovations, and identifies personal and contextual influences on homeowners’ renovation decisions. Research findings inform policies to promote energy efficiency by removing barr…
Comparing future patterns of energy system change in 2 °C scenarios with historically observed rates of change
Apples, oranges, and consistent comparisons of the temporal dynamics of energy transitions
Measuring the duration of formative phases for energy technologies
Benefits and risks of smart home technologies
Smart homes are a priority area of strategic energy planning and national policy. The market adoption of smart home technologies (SHTs) relies on prospective users perceiving clear benefits with acceptable levels of risk. This paper characterises the perceived benefits and risks of SHTs from multiple perspectives. A representative national survey of UK homeowners (n=1025) finds prospective users have positive perceptions of the multiple functiona…
Critical perspectives on disruptive innovation and energy transformation
Disruptive low-carbon innovations
Social influence in the global diffusion of alternative fuel vehicles – A meta-analysis
Modelling social influence and cultural variation in global low-carbon vehicle transitions
A low energy demand scenario for meeting the 1.5 °C target and sustainable development goals without negative emission technologies
Learning to live in a smart home
Smart homes promise to significantly enhance domestic comfort, convenience, security and leisure whilst simultaneously reducing energy use through optimized home energy management. Their ability to achieve these multiple aims rests fundamentally on how they are used by householders, yet very little is currently known about this topic. The few studies that have explored the use of smart homes have tended to focus on special-interest groups and be …
Comparing future patterns of energy system change in 2 °C scenarios to expert projections
Are low-carbon innovations appealing? A typology of functional, symbolic, private and public attributes
Advancing energy and well-being research
Social networks and communication behaviour underlying smart home adoption in the UK
The discontinuance of low carbon digital products and services
Digital consumer innovations offer low-carbon alternatives to mainstream consumption practices. We address a lack of research on the factors influencing post-adoption decisions of discontinuance for this important class of innovations. We conducted a repeat survey with UK consumers (n = 995) in 2019 and 2020 to investigate 16 digital products and services across mobility, food, homes, and energy domains. Our survey captured temporal changes in ad…
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