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Lia Marchi
Department of Architecture, University of Bologna, 40136 Bologna, Italy

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Conference paper
Published: 28 May 2021 in E3S Web of Conferences
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Many actions have been undertaken worldwide to cope with climate change and to effectively reach the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Top-down approaches, based on both policies for the development of enabling technologies and incentives to promote their wide applications, have been largely adopted in most of the cases. However, the potential contribution of changes in individual behaviours still represents an underestimated field of improvement, despite many scholars have already evidenced their considerable expected impacts. This paper presents the first outcomes of a study on the role of citizens’ behavioural change in reducing GHG emissions, focussing on the functions and performed activities at household level. Starting from a review of the emerging body of literature on the topic, a map is drafted linking the people’s actions and choices and their most relevant effects on each of the environmental categories they can interact with. The mapping provides a list of suitable practices and lifestyles shifts to be adopted, organized by categories and weighted by their emission potential reduction on the whole households’ carbon footprint. This results in a sort of easy-to-read console allowing citizens to operate according to more informed decisions within their homes, thus accelerating the sustainable transition by bottom-up initiatives.

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Lia Marchi; Vincenzo Vodola; Cristina Visconti; Jacopo Gaspari; Ernesto Antonini. Contribution of individual behavioural change on household carbon footprint. E3S Web of Conferences 2021, 263, 05024 .

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Lia Marchi, Vincenzo Vodola, Cristina Visconti, Jacopo Gaspari, Ernesto Antonini. Contribution of individual behavioural change on household carbon footprint. E3S Web of Conferences. 2021; 263 ():05024.

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Lia Marchi; Vincenzo Vodola; Cristina Visconti; Jacopo Gaspari; Ernesto Antonini. 2021. "Contribution of individual behavioural change on household carbon footprint." E3S Web of Conferences 263, no. : 05024.

Journal article
Published: 08 May 2021 in Sustainability
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Since energy transition depends significantly on reducing the built environment’s energy needs, many regulations and incentives have been implemented globally over the last three decades. Despite some positive results, many scholars suggest that households’ behavioral change could greatly accelerate progress. People’s levels of awareness and willingness to change, as well as the provision of feedback technologies, are important factors affecting the process. In spite of the extent of this body of literature, household consumption keeps rising. Our thesis is that the subject has been investigated without considering some important correlations among factors. Therefore, this study developed a survey to investigate actual consumers’ perspectives on the topic by combining people’s awareness of energy use, interaction with metering devices, and user motivation into a coherent framework. A testing session involving 500 people was held as a validation phase for a future large-scale launch of the questionnaire. The test yielded some early outcomes on how people become more interested in changing as they gain more knowledge and are offered suggestions. However, despite their supposedly advanced knowledge as educators and students, the sample’s level of awareness was low, suggesting that a more user-centered approach is needed for wide-scale progress.

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Jacopo Gaspari; Ernesto Antonini; Lia Marchi; Vincenzo Vodola. Energy Transition at Home: A Survey on the Data and Practices That Lead to a Change in Household Energy Behavior. Sustainability 2021, 13, 5268 .

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Jacopo Gaspari, Ernesto Antonini, Lia Marchi, Vincenzo Vodola. Energy Transition at Home: A Survey on the Data and Practices That Lead to a Change in Household Energy Behavior. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (9):5268.

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Jacopo Gaspari; Ernesto Antonini; Lia Marchi; Vincenzo Vodola. 2021. "Energy Transition at Home: A Survey on the Data and Practices That Lead to a Change in Household Energy Behavior." Sustainability 13, no. 9: 5268.

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Published: 01 May 2020 in International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning
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Lia Marchi; Ernesto Antonini; Valentina Orioli; Steve Evans. Mitigating the Impact of Factories on the Landscape: An Assessment and Design Support Tool. International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning 2020, 15, 309 -318.

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Lia Marchi, Ernesto Antonini, Valentina Orioli, Steve Evans. Mitigating the Impact of Factories on the Landscape: An Assessment and Design Support Tool. International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning. 2020; 15 (3):309-318.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Lia Marchi; Ernesto Antonini; Valentina Orioli; Steve Evans. 2020. "Mitigating the Impact of Factories on the Landscape: An Assessment and Design Support Tool." International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning 15, no. 3: 309-318.