Over the last decades, industrializing countries have experienced economic growth, which coincided with an increase in the use of materials. In a finite world in terms of materials, the consumption of resources and the link with economic development is a challenge for economies. While most of...

This paper investigates whether habitual energy saving behaviors of a household head impact actual energy consumption in his/her own dwelling. In doing so, this paper compares actual energy consumption across French households that, with exception of household heads' energy saving behaviors, are...

We represent in a formal model a policy argument questioning the pertinence of the adoption of a restrictive environmental policy limiting the use of abundant fossil energy resources in a developing economy. This `` Right-to-Development '' argument highlights the risk that such a policy may halt...

Home renovation is generally asserted to be a highly effective means for households to lower expenditures on energy. In this sense, home renovation can also be thought as a means to reduce GHG emissions. In this paper we consider a homeowner who makes an irreversible energy-efficiency investment...