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作者

来源

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF URBAN AND REGIONAL RESEARCH,Vol.41,Issue2,P.353-365

语言

英文

关键字

eco-housing; eco-homes; materialisms; social practices; building; occupying; scale; sustainability; environmental governance; carbon emissions; ZERO-CARBON HOMES; CLIMATE-CHANGE; SOCIOTECHNICAL TRANSITIONS; URBAN ARCHITECTURES; BUILDING SECTOR; LIVING-WIT

作者单位

[Pickerill, Jenny] Univ Sheffield, Dept Geog, Winter St, Sheffield S10 2TN, S Yorkshire, England. Pickerill, J (reprint author), Univ Sheffield, Dept Geog, Winter St, Sheffield S10 2TN, S Yorkshire, England. E-Mail: j.m.pickerill@sheffield.ac.uk

摘要

Eco-homes have only been researched in fragmented and partial ways, which fail to adequately examine their complexities and possibilities. Numerous myths about eco-homes persist in the public imagination and policy support has been mixed with, in practice, little change to the construction of contemporary homes. The ecological and social potential of eco-homes are being undermined by a technocratic focus, the capacity and behaviour of occupants, and a weakening of design as developments are scaled up. This intervention identifies five ways in which eco-homes need to be more robustly interrogated to strengthen their potential, through their breadth and diversity, dynamic nature, socio-material interdependencies, place, and understanding of their political economies. Crucially these interrogations need to be researched simultaneously to ensure that the full diversity of eco-homes is understood through their multiple interdependencies, multi-scalar practices and materialities.