Wilcox+Comparisons


 * Comparisons: What comparisons would generate critical insight on your issue? **

The ways energy policy analysts understand change in energy systems can be compared the the "energy descent action plans (EDAPs)" created by local transition groups. How does, for example, the "behavior"-oriented, incrementalist, micro-framework, "community-based social marketing," (CBSM) differ from the "energy descent action planning" of the Transition framework, and what does this reveal about competing energy imaginaries? Each framework can be help up against the regulatory landscape to reveal synergies and roadblocks to implementation. The relative absence of model EDAPs in the U.S. can reveal challenges in creating them, perhaps due to a paucity of appropriate expertise. How is "success" defined in each?

Comparing dominant policy interventions like "market transformation" and "energy assessments" (formerly energy audits) can yield similar insights. Comparing energy policy interventions to the ways in which ethnographic and "social" design-based interventions in healthcare might be an interesting strategy, once I've been able to get out in the field.