A middle-out approach for improving energy performance in buildings
A middle-out approach for improving energy performance in buildings
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DOI：
10.1080/09613218.2013.743396
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发表时间：
2013-02-01
影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Parag, Yael
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作者：
Janda, Kathryn B.;Parag, Yael
中间视角用于调查专业人士和从业者在创造社会变革中的潜在角色。社会和技术创新通常被视为要么是由自上而下引发的，要么是由自下而上演变而来的。相反，中间视角关注的是位于顶部和底部之间的中间位置的变革推动者。这种观点表明，中间角色可以影响几个不同方向的变化：上游、下游和横向。通过更明确地将上层和下层联系起来，这种方法既是自下而上和自上而下的努力的替代，也是对社会实施低碳创新和实践的补充。在建筑环境中探索了一种特殊的中间类型：建筑专业人员鼓励（或阻止）社会变革的作用。以能源系统的需求方面为重点，对国内和非国内部门的建筑专业人员进行了案例研究，以强调这些中间代理人作为促进/阻碍、调解人和聚合者的素质。本文从中间视角阐述了政策含义，并对建筑专业与建筑性能之间的近期和长期关系进行了评论。
A middle-out perspective is used to investigate potential roles for professionals and practitioners in creating societal change. Social and technological innovations are commonly seen as either being induced from the top-down or evolving from the bottom-up. Instead, a middle-out perspective focuses on agents of change that are located in the middle, between the top and the bottom. This perspective shows that middle actors can affect change in several different directions: upstream, downstream and sideways. By linking the top and bottom more explicitly, this approach is both an alternative and complementary to bottom-up and top-down efforts to implementing low-carbon innovations and practices in society. One particular kind of middle in the built environment is explored: the role of building professionals to encourage (or discourage) societal change. Focusing on the demand side of the energy system, case studies of building professionals in the domestic and non-domestic sectors are used to emphasize the qualities of these middle agents as enablers/disablers, mediators and aggregators. Policy implications from the middle-out perspective are drawn, and comments on the near and long-term relationship between building professions and building performance are made.