Industry Perceptions of Government Interventions: Generating an Energy Efficiency Norm
| Autor: | Laurel Besco, Elizabeth A. Kirk |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Public economics
business.industry media_common.quotation_subject M210 Public Law 0211 other engineering and technologies Psychological intervention Antipathy 021107 urban & regional planning 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law M290 Law by topic not elsewhere classified 01 natural sciences L490 Social Policy not elsewhere classified Environmental law 13. Climate action Hospitality Sustainability Command and control Business Norm (social) 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Efficient energy use media_common |
| Popis: | The world has been grappling with energy efficiency for decades. Much attention has been focused on how government can encourage energy efficiency, but there has been essentially none on industry perspectives of which government interventions are necessary to encourage these actions to become the norm. We address this gap through a study of industry views as to which government interventions prompt corporate actors to adopt energy efficiency measures across three industries (building and construction, energy/utilities, and hospitality) in Canada and the United Kingdom. Our findings demonstrate that industry responses mirror recent literature on the need for a mixture of policy tools. Where our findings depart from this literature is that we find a strong endorsement of the use of information provision by government and antipathy towards the use of economic instruments to engender new norms of behaviour. This finding is particularly significant given that much of the literature focuses on the benefits of economic instruments in advancing sustainability goals. We also find the express norms found in command and control instruments are, in the views of industry actors, necessary to make a shift from energy efficiency actions being carried out only by leaders within industry to these actions becoming standard. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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