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Negotiating Heritage and Energy Conservation: an ethnography of domestic renovation

Yarrow, T.

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What is the relationship between energy efficiency and old buildings? While a large body of research exists on the buildings science and technology of retro-fit, relatively little attention has focused on the social practices and assumptions that shape how and whether these technologies are practically applied. The paper presents findings from an ethnographic study of building professionals, planners and home-owners involved in the renovation and retrofit of buildings of attributed historic value. These perspectives highlight how the value of the past is negotiated in a range of socially specific ways, in relation to ideas about climate change and energy efficiency. It is argued that people’s understandings of the past shape specific understandings of ‘acceptable change’ and that the meaning and value of old buildings is itself transformed in relation to these concerns.

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Yarrow, T. (2016). Negotiating Heritage and Energy Conservation: an ethnography of domestic renovation. The Historic Environment: Policy & Practice, 7(4), 340-351. https://doi.org/10.1080/17567505.2016.1253149

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Oct 26, 2016
Online Publication Date Nov 17, 2016
Publication Date Nov 17, 2016
Deposit Date Oct 26, 2016
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Historic Environment: Policy and Practice
Print ISSN 1756-7505
Electronic ISSN 1756-7513
Publisher Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 7
Issue 4
Pages 340-351
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/17567505.2016.1253149

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© 2016 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/
licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.







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