Supply and Demand for Low Energy Housing in the UK: Insights from a Science and Technology Studies Approach
Supply and Demand for Low Energy Housing in the UK: Insights from a Science and Technology Studies Approach
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英国低能耗住房的供需：科学技术研究方法的见解
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2005
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H. Lovell
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H. Lovell
关于供给和需求的经济学理论表明，如果消费者对产品的需求增加，那么生产者就会增加供给。在英国住房市场，有证据表明消费者对低能耗住房的需求不断增加，但迄今为止，私营部门的房屋建筑商几乎没有建造低能耗住房：现有的低能耗住房主要属于社会住房和自建部门。从科学和技术研究（STS）的想法介绍，以帮助进一步了解为什么住房市场可能是缓慢的反应不断变化的消费者的喜好。虽然有关成本和价格的标准经济概念能够部分解释这种情况，但更多地关注社会技术问题突出了创新和变革难以实现的一些原因。住房市场最好被看作是一个社会技术系统，社会和技术是相互关联的。
Economic theory about supply and demand suggests that if consumer demand for a product increases then producers respond by increasing supply. In the UK housing market there is emerging evidence of consumer demand for low energy housing, yet little has been built to date by private sector housebuilders: existing low energy housing is largely within the social housing and self-build sectors. Ideas from science and technology studies (STS) are introduced to help further understanding of why the housing market might be slow to respond to changing consumer preferences. Although standard economic concepts concerning costs and price are able in part to explain the situation, greater attention to socio-technical issues highlights some of the reasons why innovation and change are difficult to effect. The housing market is best viewed as a socio-technical system, whereby the social and the technical are interlinked.