ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with the household side of the low carbon housing debate. Low carbon behaviour and practice is high on the agenda as policy makers look to households to address climate change. The first part reviews the main approaches to date and summarises their shortcomings. Then, a broader range of flatter ontologies of households and climate change is introduced. Using the example of Australian households, three vignettes are presented that illustrate particular aspects of socio-material domestic arrangements and their implications for climate change. The chapter concludes by considering how policy and programme makers might rethink existing approaches to households and climate change in an attempt to extend existing horizons beyond behaviour change.
