Supervisory team: Jack Goulding & Mark Toogood

Transdisciplinarity for Housing Sustainability

Renuka Thakore CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

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EMPIRICAL LEVEL “What exists”

PRAGMATIC LEVEL “What we are capable of doing”

NORMATIVE LEVEL “What we want to do”

Complexity

Principal/agent relationship Networked forms of governance

Network Theory New institutional theory of organisational fields

Central-local relations New economics Organisational behaviour

Institutional and Organisational theory Public service reform

Causal mechanisms Structuralist interpretations Systems of actors

Sociological theory Theories of society & action Political/ethical theory

Neo-classical Econometric testing Market analysis

Economic theory Behavioural economics Welfare economics

VALUE LEVEL “What we must do”

• Increased competitiveness

• Energy affordability Energy security

• Reducing resource scarcity

• Improved state of living conditions

• Public health Reduce social inequality

• Increase social cohesion

• Balanced energy efficiency programmes

• Improved consumer behaviour

• Sustainable development

• Efficient technologies

• Increased technical capacity

• Exchange of technical support

• Energy savings • Energy efficiency • Reduce carbon

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conservation • Water

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Integrated sustainability for energy efficiency sustainable housing

Economic Social Environmental Development Technical

Resources Commitment

Priorities Partnerships

Human behaviour Mixed tenure

Weak leadership

Carbon emissions Cost & time Fuel poverty

Stock depreciation Market

Lost information High energy use

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Environmental Development

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Overcome Challenges

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Sustainable Development

Strategic Interventions Environment Management

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AIM • To review theoretical development in Housing; • To assess practices contributing towards housing sustainability; • To identify housing sustainability interventions linking theories to practices

applying transdisciplinarity approach.

CONCLUSION • Captured challenges of the energy efficiency problem in housing; • Engaged housing stakeholders to identify strategic interventions; • Linked theories to practices; • Theories & methods cannot be generalised due to its contextual nature.

RESULTS Transdisciplinary Framework for Housing Sustainability

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Translations towards Housing Sustainability

Objectivity Subjectivity Multidisciplinary Interdisciplinary