Ensuring energy efficiency at the individual level: Getting psychologically informed

Retrofitting the Built Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 170-183

  Brown, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Experiments; Human factors; People; Psychology; Social norms

Indexed keywords

EID: 85016378896     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118273463.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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