ABSTRACT
This chapter helps stakeholders find a path for transition toward more sustainable energy use in housing, based on what they learned from the case studies in this book and more generally from the Sustainable Consumption Research Exchanges (SCORE) Research programme. In stable sustainable systems, individual behaviour is regulated at three levels: physical infrastructure; representations and practice; and institutions—the so-called triple-determination framework. Working with the meta-factors and convincing and supporting the stock of stakeholders in the regime, notably inhabitants, to reduce energy-intensive consumption, seems necessary given the need to make fundamental changes in a fraction of a generation. The chapter gives a short comparison of the main differences and similarities across the three domains, using some key concepts introduced in the first SCORE book. The chapter also presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book.
