Sustainable Consumption Institute

This 5-year research centre, funded by ESRC/EPSRC, aims to develop an interdisciplinary understanding of the emergence, diffusion and impact of low-energy innovations – new technologies, organisational arrangements or modes of behaviour that are expected to improve energy efficiency and/or reduce energy demand. The centre uses the multi-level perspective as conceptual background, but also mobilizes insights from economics, human geography, and consumption studies. Research addresses low-energy innovations in various empirical domains: transport, housing, energy.

One of the projects currently being under taken is the "The diffusion of low-energy systems: lessons from a comparative analysis of the UK and other countries"

Conference Papers & Presentations

Geels, F. (2014), ‘Technological reorientation for sustainability: A dialectic industry-in-context perspective’, Presentation at International Innovation 4 Sustainability network, Manchester, UK, 7^th May

Geels, F. (2014), ‘Regime resistance against low-carbon energy transitions’,’, International Conference on Sustainability Transitions, Utrecht, Netherlands, 27-29th August

Geels, F. (2014), ‘A critical appraisal of sustainable consumption and production research’, International Conference on Sustainability Transitions, Utrecht, Netherlands, 27-29th August

Geels, F. (2014), ‘Transitions thinking and the MLP: Deepening, broadening and scaling up’, Lecture at Climate-KIC Summer school, Frankfurt, Germany, 2^nd September

Geels, F. (2014), Co-organiser of international expert workshop (30 participants) on Incumbent-Challenger Interactions in Energy Transitions, Stuttgart, 22-23rd September

Geels, F. (2014), ‘Understanding the dynamics of transitions: The multi-level perspective and reflections’, Presentation for the Institute for Research and Innovation in Society Summer School, Florence, 25-26th September