Complexity, Entanglement, and Overflow in the New Carbon Economy: The Case of the UK's Energy Efficiency Commitment
Complexity, Entanglement, and Overflow in the New Carbon Economy: The Case of the UK's Energy Efficiency Commitment
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新碳经济的复杂性、纠缠性和溢出性：以英国能源效率承诺为例
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10.1068/a40347
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2009
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G. Powells
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G. Powells
我利用经济和社会技术关系的复杂性，尤其是约翰·劳（John Law）和米歇尔·卡伦（Michel Callon）的研究成果，在政府干预试图减少碳排放的同时解决燃料贫困的背景下，考虑国内能源效率。英国对能源效率的政策反应在很大程度上是由“市场”构成的，在诸如“能源效率承诺”等干预措施中继续执行市场。本文探讨了能源效率承诺在执行福利功能的同时减少二氧化碳排放的方式以及以这种方式校准它的多重影响。特别是，我认为，对能源网络进行秩序和管理的尝试，很难遏制由气候变化和燃料匮乏引起的生成效应，这些效应与同样的技术和社会现象（如家庭、能源技术和能源用户）密不可分。
I use ideas about the complexity of economic and sociotechnical relations, drawing especially on the work of John Law and Michel Callon, to consider domestic energy efficiency in a landscape in which governmental interventions attempt to reduce carbon emissions while also tackling fuel poverty. Policy responses to energy efficiency in the UK largely framed by ‘the market’ go on to perform the market in interventions such as the Energy Efficiency Commitment. The way that the Energy Efficiency Commitment has been designed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions while performing a welfare function and the multiple effects of calibrating it in such a way are explored in the paper. In particular, I suggest that attempts to order and govern energy networks struggle to contain the generative effects that stem from climate change and fuel poverty being hardwired to the same technical and social phenomena such as homes, energy technologies, and energy users.