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The authors deserve huge credit for modernising this excellent book while losing none of its insight. As a means of more effectively reducing carbon dioxide emissions, we conclude that policy should focus on sustainable energy use. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. It provides a fresh perspective, uses accessible language, and employs logic to explain complex concepts to students.However, case study participants largely agree on the beneficial role of government regulation and efforts to “nudge” them in the right direction with regard to their energy use. Dr Tom Clark, Dr Liam Foster, and Dr Luke Sloan bring specialist expertise and have worked closely with students and lecturers to build on Alan Bryman's impressive legacy.

By employing a focused case study approach using both quantitative and qualitative response analysis, it considers the motivations of residential householders in the UK to reduce fossil fuel use, with additional perspectives from UK landlords, a global environmental NGO, a senior politician, and two senior stakeholder strategy managers from a large energy company. Also available as an e-book enhanced with self-assessment activities and multi-media content to offer a fully immersive experience and extra learning support. Clear theoretical explanations in the main text are enhanced by 'Key concept' boxes, which summarize important terms and processes, and 'Thinking deeply' boxes, which encourage students to go further in considering an issue or debate.The thoroughly updated sixth edition offers unrivalled coverage of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods with renewed focus and a fresh, modern feel. The findings allow us to understand why important recent policy initiatives such as the UK Green Deal failed to achieve their objectives and they suggest lessons for more effective incentive based policy making in the field of residential energy consumption. The importance of evidence to inform decisions on social phenomena has never been greater; or more widely accepted. A key lesson from recent advances in behavioural economics is that the responses of individuals to both policy incentives and uncertainty may differ from the predictions of classical rational optimising behaviour. The authors have worked closely with lecturers and students in thoroughly updating the sixth edition to reflect the current social science landscape, and carefully streamlining content to make it relevant and appealing to today's students.

Experiments, surveys, participant observation and interviewing - and more particular problems such as measurement, levels of analysis and the relevance of epistemological issues - are thoroughly discussed.Please note that textbooks and other products described on this site may not be available outside the USA. ABSTRACT: This paper investigates residential energy consumption in the UK by using a novel and topical approach based on behavioural analysis.