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MAGIC and MEDEAS have received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement
No. 689669 and No. 691287, respectively. The results presented at the workshop reflect the authors' view only; the funding agency is not
responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.
The present work reflects only the author's view and the Funding Agency can not be held responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.
Integrating Social Practices in Energy Models
EMP-E 2919 Conference: Modelling the implementation of A Clean Planet For All Strategy PARALLEL SESSION 2A: INTEGRATING SOCIAL PRACTICES IN ENERGY MODELS
11:45h - 13:30h, 9 October 2019, Brussels
Raúl Velasco-Fernández, Mario Giampietro, Roger Samsó & Jordi Solé
The present work reflects only the author's view and the Funding Agency can not be held responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No. 689669.
Organization of the focus group
• World Cafè format
Time schedule Item Who Time allocation
Welcome & Introduction:
MAGIC & MEDEAS
Mario Giampietro, Institute of Environmental Science
and Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
(ICTA-UAB). ES
5 min
Presentation of the questions fostering the debate, some examples from MEDEAS and MAGIC
MAGIC & MEDEAS
Wander Jager, Groningen Center for Social
Complexity Studies, University of Groningen, NL
Raúl Velasco-Fernández, Institute of
Environmental Science and Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB). ES
20 min
World Café
All participants (3 tables)
Table hosts: - Wander Jager - Mario Giampietro - Raúl Velasco-Fernández
3 rounds of 20
min each
Total: 60 min
Feedback from each table host and plenary
discussion Table hosts and all participants 15 min
Closing remarks MAGIC & MEDEAS 5 min
In each of the different tables we will have one moderator
fostering the discussion:
(i) The challenge of modelling agency and social dynamics in energy models.
Wander Jager
(ii) Alternative methods for studying agency and social practices in energy models.
Mario Giampietro
(iii) Governance implications of agency and social dynamics in energy model outcomes.
Raúl Velasco-Fernández
Three issues to be discussed but not limited to those
The present work reflects only the author's view and the Funding Agency can not be held responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No. 689669.
Expected outcomes
• Identification of common challenges and problems when addressing agency and social dynamics in energy models.
• Possible solutions for a better analysis of agency and institutional effects in energy models.
• Suggestions for improving energy modelling informing policy and avoiding the attractor of technocentric advices.
MAGIC and MEDEAS have received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement
No. 689669 and No. 691287, respectively. The results presented at the workshop reflect the authors' view only; the funding agency is not
responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.
The present work reflects only the author's view and the Funding Agency can not be held responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.
Integrating Social Practices in Energy Models
EMP-E 2919 Conference: Modelling the implementation of A Clean Planet For All Strategy PARALLEL SESSION 2A: INTEGRATING SOCIAL PRACTICES IN ENERGY MODELS
11:45h - 13:30h, 9 October 2019, Brussels
Raúl Velasco-Fernández, Mario Giampietro, Roger Samsó & Jordi Solé
MAGIC and MEDEAS have received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement
No. 689669 and No. 691287, respectively. The results presented at the workshop reflect the authors' view only; the funding agency is not
responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.
The present work reflects only the author's view and the Funding Agency can not be held responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.
Integrating Social Practices in Energy Models
EMP-E 2919 Conference: Modelling the implementation of A Clean Planet For All Strategy PARALLEL SESSION 2A: INTEGRATING SOCIAL PRACTICES IN ENERGY MODELS
11:45h - 13:30h, 9 October 2019, Brussels
Raúl Velasco-Fernández, Mario Giampietro, Roger Samsó & Jordi Solé
Fostering the debate
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZjq6sqJCqo&list=PLIZrkdjNiMaWa0Gq3RT2NRQHpTkrARVmH&index=3&t=1s
Looking beyond technology…
How we explain the differences among these households? - It is just a individual choice? A rational behavior? - It is just a social practice?
Rational choice, rational agents • The rational agent is assumed to take account of available information, probabilities
of events, and potential costs and benefits in determining preferences, and to act
consistently in choosing the self-determined best choice of action.
• A rational agent is an agent that has clear preferences, models uncertainty via
expected values of variables or functions of variables, and always chooses to perform
the action with the optimal expected outcome for itself from among all feasible
actions.
• Homo economicus is the portrayal of humans as agents who are consistently rational,
narrowly self-interested, and who pursue their subjectively-defined ends optimally.
Wikipedia
Practice theory
• Practice theory is a theory of how social beings, with their diverse motives
and their diverse intentions, make and transform the world which they live in.
• It seeks to explain the relationship(s) that obtain between human action, on
the one hand, and some global entity which we call 'the system' on the other.
• It focus in activities and their patterns instead of the individual agents
performing it (e.g. food-preparation and serving rituals, religious rites, games,
modes of transport, literary and non-literary text) exploring by which meaning
is produced and reproduced within the culture.
Wikipedia
Practice theory
Elements of practice. Adapted from Shove et al., 2012
Ian Kennedy
Key differences between Cognitive Theories and Practice Theory
Policies appealing to individuals…
Policies appealing to social practices…
Policies appealing to social practices…
Policies appealing to social practices…
Policies appealing to social practices…
The 3 lenses used to check the quality of governance for sustainability
#1 - Checking the quality of the framing
Who have chosen the given story-telling? How have they been chosen? Why have they been chosen?
Whose concerns are acknowledged? Whose concerns are ignored? Whose problems will be solved first?
What are the problems to be solved? What is the priority given to existing concerns?
JUSTIFICATION NARRATIVES
#2 - Checking the quality of the proposed policies
Are they feasible? (compatible with external limits) Are they viable? (compatible with internal limits)
What are the gains and losses across the various indicators of performance (impact matrix) What are the winners and losers among the various social actors (equity matrix)
How do the policies look when considering an evolutionary view?
NORMATIVE NARRATIVES
#3 - Checking the quality of the process used to decide
What information is missing for a better informed decision?
Can we organize the available information into a more robust decision support tool?
Can we implement procedures based on participatory processes allowing a robust co-production of knowledge claims and a fairer deliberation?
EXPLANATION NARRATIVES
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and
Innovation Programme under grant agreement No. 689669.
The present work reflects only the author's view and the Funding Agency can not be held
responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.
Thank you for your attention!
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Implications for policy advice…
• Wednesday 11:30
• Publicidad sobre cambiar el behavior (no conflict)
• Madrid Central (forbiden cars inside the city)
• Individual isolation of houses investment and
• Collective heating systems (e.g. district heating)