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摘要
基于应用程序的干预措施越来越多地用于培养节能的家庭生活习惯。以往的研究很少衡量其效果是否会长期存在,而在少数几项研究中,通常在没有对照组的情况下估算出的节能效果也不会随着时间的推移而持续。为了取得长期效果,我们认为:(i) 应用程序用户应参与到应用程序的设计中;(ii) 应用程序应侧重于支持社区建设的集体层面功能(而不仅仅是个人层面的消费反馈);(iii) 长期而言,需要特定的应用程序功能来防止复发。我们在 "Social Power Plus 社区能源挑战赛 "中评估了这些策略的总体效果,这是一项基于应用程序的干预措施,于 2022 年在瑞士实施,涉及约 200 个自愿家庭。根据加权差分法进行的准实验估算显示,干预措施在一整年内平均产生了近 5% 的能源节约。然而,第一季度的效果更高(节能高达 11%),最后几个季度的效果则微乎其微。我们反思了这三种策略如何无法确保长期效果,并建议未来的研究进一步探索基于社区的进程的潜力,减少对应用程序的关注,更多地关注围绕家庭常规的主流社会规范的集体质疑。
Can app-based communities support energy sufficiency in households? Evidence from a one-year quasi-experiment in Switzerland
App-based interventions are increasingly used to foster energy-sufficient household routines. Previous studies rarely measure whether the effect persists in the long-term, and for the few that have, the savings effects – often estimated without a control group – are not maintained over time. To favour long-lasting effects, we posit that (i) app users should be engaged in the app design, (ii) apps should focus on collective-level features that support community building (rather than individual-level consumption feedback only), and (iii) specific app features are needed in the long-term to resist relapse. We assess the overall effect of these strategies in the “Social Power Plus Community Energy Challenge”, an app-based intervention run in 2022 in Switzerland involving about 200 voluntary households. Quasi-experimental estimates under a weighted Difference-in-Differences approach show that on average the intervention produced nearly 5% energy savings over one full year. However, the effect was higher in the first quarter (up to 11% energy saving), becoming negligible in the last quarters. We reflect on how the three strategies did not ensure long-term effects and recommend future research to further explore the potential of community-based processes, focusing less on apps and more on collectively questioning dominant social norms around household routines.
期刊介绍:
Sustainable Cities and Society (SCS) is an international journal that focuses on fundamental and applied research to promote environmentally sustainable and socially resilient cities. The journal welcomes cross-cutting, multi-disciplinary research in various areas, including:
1. Smart cities and resilient environments;
2. Alternative/clean energy sources, energy distribution, distributed energy generation, and energy demand reduction/management;
3. Monitoring and improving air quality in built environment and cities (e.g., healthy built environment and air quality management);
4. Energy efficient, low/zero carbon, and green buildings/communities;
5. Climate change mitigation and adaptation in urban environments;
6. Green infrastructure and BMPs;
7. Environmental Footprint accounting and management;
8. Urban agriculture and forestry;
9. ICT, smart grid and intelligent infrastructure;
10. Urban design/planning, regulations, legislation, certification, economics, and policy;
11. Social aspects, impacts and resiliency of cities;
12. Behavior monitoring, analysis and change within urban communities;
13. Health monitoring and improvement;
14. Nexus issues related to sustainable cities and societies;
15. Smart city governance;
16. Decision Support Systems for trade-off and uncertainty analysis for improved management of cities and society;
17. Big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence applications and case studies;
18. Critical infrastructure protection, including security, privacy, forensics, and reliability issues of cyber-physical systems.
19. Water footprint reduction and urban water distribution, harvesting, treatment, reuse and management;
20. Waste reduction and recycling;
21. Wastewater collection, treatment and recycling;
22. Smart, clean and healthy transportation systems and infrastructure;