People's decisions matter: understanding and addressing energy poverty with behavioral economics
People's decisions matter: understanding and addressing energy poverty with behavioral economics
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DOI：
10.1016/j.enbuild.2019.109515
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发表时间：
2019-12-01
影响因子：
6.7
通讯作者：
DellaValle, Nives
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作者：
DellaValle, Nives
由于无法获得负担得起、安全可靠的能源服务，个人失去了过上美好、令人满意和公正生活的基本手段。这个问题在城市地区变得越来越紧迫，特别是在低收入社区，在这些地区，无法满足能源成本反映了社会隔离和分配不平等。让所有家庭都能使用更清洁的技术和提供财政援助是与能源贫困作斗争的战略。然而，了解人们影响能源使用的日常决定也是至关重要的。必须认真审查推动决策的根本机制，尤其是在以稀缺条件为特征的情况下。生活在匮乏的环境中会耗尽人们可用的认知资源，从而使他们的决定更容易受到认知偏差的影响。例如，稀缺性的背景会引发一种倾向，即比起延迟的较大回报，更倾向于立即获得较小的回报。然而，研究表明，这可以通过允许个人建立社区信任来缓解。这项研究利用了行为科学的最新发现，即稀缺条件对决策的作用，目的是(I)审查在能源匮乏的情况下可能出现的某些认知偏差，以及(Ii)设计策略，以释放个人做出决策的潜力，从而为自己和周围环境带来更好的结果。(C)2019年提交人。爱思唯尔出版公司(Elsevier B.V.)
Insufficient access to affordable, safe and reliable energy services deprives individuals of the essential means to live a good, satisfactory and just life. This problem is becoming more and more urgent in urban areas, in particular in low-income neighborhoods, in which the inability to meet energy costs reflects social segregation and distributional inequalities. Making cleaner technologies available for all homes and providing financial aid are strategies that would combat energy poverty. However, understanding people's everyday decisions that affect their energy use is also crucial. A careful examination of the underlying mechanisms that drive decisions is required, above all in contexts characterized by conditions of scarcity. Living in a context of scarcity depletes people's available cognitive resources, thus rendering their decisions more susceptible to cognitive biases. As an example, contexts of scarcity trigger a tendency to prefer immediate smaller rewards to delayed larger ones. However, studies demonstrate that this can be mitigated by allowing individuals to build community trust. This study taps into recent findings from behavioral sciences regarding the role that scarcity conditions have on decision-making, with the aim to (i) review certain cognitive biases that might arise in energy poverty contexts, and (ii) devise strategies to unlock individuals' potential to make decisions that result in better outcomes for themselves and their surroundings. (C) 2019 The Author. Published by Elsevier B.V.