Factors Affecting the Adoption of Home Heating Energy Conservation Measures: A Behavioral Approach

The basic aim of this research is to better understand homeowners' adoption of home heating energy conservation measures by analysing a number of factors that are thought to be underlying determinants of adoption behavior. The basic approach is behavioral drawing on the knowledge built up in behavioral geography through studies on natural hazards and innovation diffusion, and borrowing from psychological theories of attitude formation and decision making. In particular, six factors (information, environmental personality, socio-economic and demographic factors, dwelling unit characteristics, psychological variables, and past experience) are shown to directly and indirectly affect adoption behavior. By this means, differences between adopters and nonadopters in the underlying cognitive structures and in the situational factors that affect their decisions are identified.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Geography

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Macey, Susan Michele

• Geography

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8302924

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/70638