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Horace Herring Publications
Journal Papers
National Building Stocks: addressing energy consumption or de-carbonisation?, Building Research & Information (forthcoming)
Sally Caird, Robin Roy and Horace Herring. Improving the energy performance of UK households. Results from surveys of consumer adoption and use of low and zero carbon technologies. Energy Efficiency (2008) 1:149–166.
Horace Herring & Robin Roy. Technological innovation, energy efficient design and the rebound effect. Technovation 27 (2007): 194-203.
Confronting Jevons’ Paradox: Does promoting energy efficiency save energy. IAEE newsletter Fourth Quarter 2006, p14-15.
Energy Efficiency: A Critical View? Energy: the International Journal 32(1): 10-20 (March 2005).
Horace Herring and Mithra Moezzi, eds. Energy Efficiency and Consumption: Special issue of Energy & Environment, 15 (6) (2004).
Horace Herring & Robin Roy. Sustainable Services, Electronic Education and the Rebound Effect, Environmental Impact Assessment Review 22 (5): 525-542 (2002).
The Conservation Society: harbinger of the 1970s environment movement in the UK. Environment & History 7: 381-401 (2001).
Energy Efficiency - Does it save energy? Civil Engineering 138 (S2): 36-38 (2000).
Editorial: How Green is Energy Efficiency? Energy & Environment 11 (5): i-iii.
Bruhns, Harry, Philip Steadman, Horace Herring, Sarah Moss and Peter Rickaby. Types, numbers, and floor areas of nondomestic premises in England and Wales, classified by activity. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 27 (5): 641-665.
Bruhns, Harry, Philip Steadman and Horace Herring 2000. A database for modeling energy use in the non-domestic building stock of England & Wales, Applied Energy 66 (4): 277-297(2000).
Is Energy Efficiency Environmentally Friendly? Energy & Environment 11 (3): 13-326 (2000).
Does energy efficiency save energy? Power Economics April 2000, pp.27.
Does energy efficiency save energy? The debate and its consequences. Applied Energy 63 (3): 209-226 (1999).
Electricity Use in Minor Appliances in the UK. Energy: the International Journal 20 (7): 705-710 (1995).
Is Britain a Third World Country: The case of German refrigerators? Energy Policy 22 (9): 779-787 (1994).
Books
Horace Herring and Steve Sorrell, eds. Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Consumption: The Rebound Effect. Palgrave 2009.
From Energy Dreams to Nuclear Nightmares: Lessons for the 21st century from a previous nuclear era. Charlbury, Oxon: Jon Carpenter 2005.
Rodney Evans & Horace Herring. Energy Use in the UK Domestic Sector up to Year 2010. HMSO: Energy Efficiency Series No.11, 1990.
Herring, Horace et al. Energy Use in UK Commercial and Public Buildings. HMSO: Energy Efficiency Series No. 6, 1988.
Book Sections
Sufficiency and the Rebound Effect. In Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Consumption: The Rebound Effect, eds. Horace Herring & Steve Sorrell. Palgrave, 2008, pp 226-241.
The Limits to Energy Efficiency: Time to beat the rebound effect. In Sustainable Energy: opportunities and limitations, ed. Dave Elliott. Palgrave 2007, pp135-152.
Policies for Managing Energy Use. Chapter 3 in Energy Savings in Buildings, Book 4 of Course T206: Energy for a Sustainable Future, the Open University (2007).
Opposition to Nuclear Power: A brief history. In Nuclear or Not, ed. Dave Elliott. Palgrave 2007, pp34-49.
The Limits to Energy Efficiency: Time to beat the rebound effect. In Sustainable Energy: Opportunities and limitations, ed. Dave Elliott, Palgrave (forthcoming).
Policies for Managing Energy Use. In Managing Energy Demand ed. Godfrey Boyle, Part of Course T206: Power for a Sustainable Future, the Open University (forthcoming).
Opposition to Nuclear Power: a brief history. In Nuclear or Not, ed. Dave Elliott, Palgrave 2007.
Consumption: Innovation for Sustainability. Block 5 of Course T307: Innovation: Designing for a sustainable future, the Open University 2006.
Rebound effect. In Encyclopedia of Earth. Eds. Cutler J. Cleveland. Washington, D.C.: Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment. http://www.eoearth.org/article/Rebound_effect
The Rebound Effect and Energy Conservation. In The Encyclopedia of Energy, ed. Cutler Cleveland. Academic Press/Elsevier Science, 2004.
Simon, Karl-Heinz and Horace Herring. Intentional Communities and Environmental Sustainability. In Encyclopedia of Community, eds. Karen Christensen & David Levinson, Volume 2: 690-693. Sage, 2003.
Government Policies for Managing Energy Use. In Managing Energy Demand, ed. Godfrey Boyle, 123-160. Part of Course T206: Power for a Sustainable Future, the Open University, 2003.
Environmental History. In International Encyclopedia of Environmental Politics, eds. John Barry & E. Gene Frankland, 171-2. London: Routledge 2002.
The Rebound Effect, Sustainable Consumption and electronic appliances. In Sustainability in the Information Society, eds. Lorenz Hilty, & Paul Gilgen, 870-6. Marburg, Germany: Metropolis Verlag, 2001.
Why Energy Efficiency is not enough. In Advances in Energy Studies, eds. Sergio Ulgiati et al, 349-359. SGE: Padova, Italy, 2001.
Is Energy Efficiency Good for the Environment: some conflicts and confusions? In The UK Energy Experience: A Model or a Warning, eds. G. MacKerron & P. Pearson, 327-338. Imperial College Press, 1996.
Energy Savings in Domestic Electrical Appliances. In Emerging Energy Technologies: Impacts and Policy Implications, ed. Michael Grubb, 69-85. Dartmouth 1992.
Conference Papers
Horace Herring, Sally Caird and Robin Roy. Can consumers save energy? Results from surveys of consumer adoption and use of low and zero carbon technologies. In eceee 2007 Summer Study Proceedings, Volume 4: 1873-84. Stockholm, Sweden.
Not FoE Alone: the realities of the British anti-nuclear power campaign in the 1970s. Paper to BSHS Annual Conference, University of Kent, 8 July 2006.
Reducing Consumption through Communal Living. In eceee 2003 Summer Study Proceedings, Volume 3: 1073-1078. Stockholm, Sweden, June 2003.
Childhood Experiences as Triggers for the Ecological Impulse. Paper to the Annual Meeting of the European Association for Environmental History (UK), the Open University, May 2003.
Image and Reality: FoE's anti-nuclear power campaign. Paper to the Annual Meeting of the European Association for Environmental History (UK), the Open University, September 2002.
The Rebound Effect, Sustainable Consumption and electronic appliances. Winner ‘Best Paper’ Award at the 15th International Symposium, Informatics for Environmental Protection, Zurich, October 2001.
Science Fiction Literature and the Ecological Imagination. Paper to the European Society for Environmental History Conference, St. Andrews, September 2001.
Does Communal Living Save Energy? Paper to 7th International Communal Studies Association Conference, Zegg Community, Germany, June 2001.
Free Market versus Regulation: How to Improve the Efficiency of Standby Power Appliances. Paper to ECEEE 1997 Summer Study, the Czech Republic, June 2000.
The Conservation Society, the harbinger of the 1970's environment movement in the UK. Paper to the Annual Meeting of the European Association for Environmental History (UK), Norwich May 2000.
Reviews
Crude Politics: The California Oil Market, 1900-1940. Environment & History 14: 423-425 (August 2008).
The baby-doomers’ lament. Times Higher Education, 28 February 2008, p 13.
Problems for local people: from Arctic oil to LA smog. Organization & Environment (June 2007).
More Haste, Less Speed. Organization & Environment 19(3): 411-414 (September 2006).
Power and its pitch black heart. Times HES 22 April 2005, p.29.
Windy Blots on the Landscape? Organization & Environment 17(4): 533-437 (December 2004).
The Quest for Arcadia: British utopian communities. Organization & Environment, 15 (2): 202-208 (June 2002).
Late Victorian Holocausts. Organization & Environment, 15 (1): 91-94 (March 2002).
The Green Web Organization & Environment, 14 (3): 391-3 (September 2001).
Natural Capitalism: the new utopia? Energy & Environment 11 (5): 597-599 (November 2000).
The Search for a Utopian Energy Policy. Environmental Politics 9 (2): 168-71 (Summer 2000).
Renewables: The energy alternative? Environmental Politics 7 (1): 241-4 (Spring 1998).
Being Definite About the Environment. Environmental Politics 6 (1): 203-7 (Spring 1997).
Environmental History. Environmental Politics 5 (2): 372-375 (Summer 1996).
Invited Presentations
Confronting Jevons’ Paradox. Speech to the OECD 18th Round Table on Sustainable Development, Paris 14 June 2006.
Miscellaneous
The Rebound Effect: Efficiency, sufficiency and the meaning of life. Renew 175: 21-22, (Sept/October 2008).
Horace Herring, Robin Roy & Sally Caird. ‘Grey greens’ go solar? Consumer adoption and use of renewables. Renew 167:20-22 (May 2007).
Does Improving Energy Efficiency save Energy: the Economist Debate? the Open University, EERU Report No. 74, August 1998.
Harry Bruhns, Philip Steadman, and Horace Herring 1997. Activity Classification and the Structure of the Non Domestic Building Stock Database. Centre for Configurational Studies, the Open University. August 1997.
Standby Power Consumption in Brown Goods: a Case Study of Hi-fi Equipment. the Open University, EERU Report No. 73, 1996.
The Pattern of (Delivered) Energy Use in the UK 1990. the Open University, EERU Report No. 70, 1995.
Waide, Paul & Herring Horace 1993. Refrigerators, Energy, & Climate: Mandatory Energy Efficiency Standards for Domestic Refrigeration Units in the European Union: Analysis of the Draft EU Directive and Alternative Proposals for a Standard. Report commissioned by Greenpeace International, December 1993.
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