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Author: Ray Galvin (University of Cambridge, UK and RWTH-Aachen University, Germany)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.476kg
ISBN: 9781138788343
ISBN 10: 1138788341
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 18 June 2015
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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Professional & Vocational
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
This book is a must-read for anyone who needs or wants to understand the reasons why home retrofit energy savings are so often disappointing. - Nicola Terry, Consultant, UK
This book is a must-read for anyone who needs or wants to understand the reasons why home retrofit energy savings are so often disappointing. -Nicola Terry, Consultant, UK This is a useful, interesting, short, but complex book. It could be read by anyone interested in exploring the impact of policy on building space conditioning energy use. -SBSE News, Nigel Isaacs, School of Architecture, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Galvin seeks to offer a practical guide for policy-makers and practitioners in understanding how rebound affects home heating. The aim of the book is to offer its audience a deeper understanding of the rebound effect, practical methods for understanding and analysing it, and the implications it might have in both research and policy. This respectfully slim book contains a well-selected set of chapters covering: an introduction to the rebound effect as it applies to domestic heating, a discussion of the causes of rebound effect as under- stood by various disciplines; methods for estimating the effect on home heating energy demand; the relationship between rebound and fuel poverty and also low-energy housing; along with a consideration about how the effect is seen in non-residential buildings. .... This book is a welcome addition to an under-studied issue within the home heating literature. -Ian Hamilton, University College London
Author Information
Ray Galvin has an interdisciplinary background, including engineering, social science and policy studies. He works with the Engineering and Architecture Departments at the University of Cambridge, UK, and the Business and Economics Faculty at RWTH-Aachen University, Germany. His main research interest in recent years has been energy efficiency upgrades of existing homes, focusing mostly on Germany and the UK, but also on Europe more widely. He has published extensively on economic, social, technical and policy issues with regard to domestic energy consumption. His empirical and theoretical work includes research on the rebound effect in both buildings and transport.
