Upgrading the energy label for dwellings in Flanders: an example of a behaviourally informed policy tool
| العنوان: | Upgrading the energy label for dwellings in Flanders: an example of a behaviourally informed policy tool |
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| المؤلفون: | Griet Verbeeck, Erik Nuyts, Victoria Taranu |
| المساهمون: | Taranu, Victoria, Verbeeck, Griet, Nuyts, Erik |
| المصدر: | Building Research & Information. 48:18-33 |
| بيانات النشر: | Informa UK Limited, 2019. |
| سنة النشر: | 2019 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Nudge theory, 05 social sciences, 0211 other engineering and technologies, Computer Science::Social and Information Networks, 02 engineering and technology, Building and Construction, Environmental economics, Computer Science::Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science, 0502 economics and business, Economics, 050211 marketing, 021108 energy, Energy label, nudges, social norm, energy renovation, energy efficiency, laboratory experiments, Energy (signal processing), Civil and Structural Engineering, Efficient energy use |
| الوصف: | The energy performance certificate (EPC) is mandatory in the EU, aiming to enable prospective buyers and renters to compare dwellings in terms of energy performance. Flanders intends to improve its current EPC, by adding a label to the existing coloured scale and EPC score. Our research aimed to inform the Flemish Energy Agency by testing before releasing the new version of the certificate, thus being an example of behaviourally informed policies. A literature review of experiments on information framing in similar contexts established the background to the research. Given the evidence of the importance of information framing, we tested 10 versions of the new label on 224 respondents (N = 224). We verified two main hypotheses – the ‘normal distribution illusion’ and the ‘energy efficiency fallacy’. The former tested whether respondents assess too optimistically the dwellings in the red spectrum of the scale. The latter verified whether respondents focused exclusively on energy efficiency, ignoring the dwelling size or total energy consumption. Nudges tested to overcome these biases included social norm, anchoring and rescaling. Based on these results the label was rescaled, from the initial G-A to FA+. Rescaling corrects the overoptimistic assessment of the energy performance of label F. |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| تدمد: | 1466-4321 0961-3218 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::a483d0fe54b00a4ef5b1b68baf1ae989 https://doi.org/10.1080/09613218.2019.1661763 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....a483d0fe54b00a4ef5b1b68baf1ae989 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
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