Industrial energy efficiency is a key element of our efforts to mitigate global warming, and this combination of engineering and social science approaches does much to enhance our understanding in both technical-industrial and policy-making contexts.
The Interconnection Between STS and Barriers to Industrial Energy Efficiency.- Barriers to Energy Efficiency - Earlier Research and Theoretical Baseline.- Science and Technology Studies - Earlier Research on Socio-Technical Transition and Theoretical Baseline.- Improving Energy Efficiency - Using an Interdisciplinary Perspective.- Integrating STS and Barrier Perspective - Methodological Implications.- Apply a Combined STS and Barrier Perspective on Industrial Energy Efficiency - Policy Implications.- Implications for EUs 2020-Goals.- Concluding Discussion.