The increasing phenomena related to urbanization and human impact on landscape leads to re-think the future of the cities. As well as in buildings, a careful design, the use of renewable sources and the use of advanced technical solutions, to achieve a significant energy savings, are strategies not sufficient to define a “Post-Carbon city” or a “Post-Carbon building”. It is necessary that the citizen/occupant become a “Post-Carbon society”, i.e. they pursue conscious lifestyle marked on energy saving principles. This suggest that the occupant’s behaviour plays a fundamental role. In fact, many studies have shown that the human behaviour influences, mainly, the energy performance, explaining, in this way, the discrepancy gap between predicted and real consumptions. Since human behaviour is, in large part, influenced by several factors, a behavioural change towards sustainable lifestyle is desirable and this is possible, for examples, by providing to users feedback and information on comfort condition and energy use. The main goal of this research is to identify the pro-environmental behaviour by a questionnaire survey. Specifically, the structure of the survey will be described in this paper and the main results presented.

Insights on pro-environmental behavior towards post-carbon society / Fabi, Valentina; DI NICOLI, MARIA VALENTINA; Spigliantini, Giorgia; Corgnati, Stefano Paolo. - In: ENERGY PROCEDIA. - ISSN 1876-6102. - 134:(2017), pp. 462-469. [10.1016/j.egypro.2017.09.604]

Insights on pro-environmental behavior towards post-carbon society

Fabi, Valentina;DI NICOLI, MARIA VALENTINA;Spigliantini, Giorgia;Corgnati, Stefano Paolo
2017

Abstract

The increasing phenomena related to urbanization and human impact on landscape leads to re-think the future of the cities. As well as in buildings, a careful design, the use of renewable sources and the use of advanced technical solutions, to achieve a significant energy savings, are strategies not sufficient to define a “Post-Carbon city” or a “Post-Carbon building”. It is necessary that the citizen/occupant become a “Post-Carbon society”, i.e. they pursue conscious lifestyle marked on energy saving principles. This suggest that the occupant’s behaviour plays a fundamental role. In fact, many studies have shown that the human behaviour influences, mainly, the energy performance, explaining, in this way, the discrepancy gap between predicted and real consumptions. Since human behaviour is, in large part, influenced by several factors, a behavioural change towards sustainable lifestyle is desirable and this is possible, for examples, by providing to users feedback and information on comfort condition and energy use. The main goal of this research is to identify the pro-environmental behaviour by a questionnaire survey. Specifically, the structure of the survey will be described in this paper and the main results presented.
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