Development and testing of robust, pragmatic energy and carbon mapping framework based on input-output, LCA and structural time series modelling.

Exploration of underlying (direct and indirect) energy demand trends by functional headings and lifestyle 'clusters'.

Decomposition of structural, technical, and socio-demographic trends.

Extension to social and socio-structural variables using Social Accounting Matrices.

Social and environmental psychological influences on energy behaviours and understandings of resistance to change.

Exploration of normative and affective motivations in energy behaviours and practices.

Elaboration and testing of a 'threatened identity' model of resistance to change.

The role of social norms and the communal management of social and environmental resources.

Exploration of robust socio-cultural foundation for concept of 'sustainable energy lifestyle', drawing on:

• the social and cultural construction of identity and lifestyle narratives;
• gendered, socio-demographic and subcultural perspectives on lifestyle and meaning;
• the social distribution of lifestyle 'choice';
• the social shaping of consumer-producer dialectics.

Elaboration and testing of a 'threatened meanings' model of resistance to change.

Elaboration and testing of lifestyle scenarios, using energy mapping and informed by socio-psychological and cultural understandings of lifestyle change: a longitudinal empirical case study.

Exploration of policy options to encourage behavioural change and sustainable energy lifestyles; elaboration of governance implications: case study of policy support for community change.