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Thermal Comfort

Comfort standards and their history, formatted as a clickable bibliography — sorted by author.
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Belke, A., et al. "Energy Consumption and Economic Growth."

"A Better Way to Cool Ourselves."

Brager, Gail, and Richard de Dear. "Natural Ventilation."

Cass, Nicky, and Elizabeth Shove. "Standards? Whose Standards?"

Chappells, Heather, and Elizabeth Shove. "The Future of Comfort."

Crowley, John E. "The Sensibility of Comfort."

Crowley, John E. The Invention of Comfort: Sensibilities and Design. Introduction.

Cruse. "Improving the Weather."

Cruse. "Design with Comfort." 1990.

Day, J., and A. Gunderson. "High Performance Buildings and Occupant Knowledge."

Gilani, S., et al. "Dynamic Occupant Behavior in Design Codes."

Goodell, Jeff. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet. 2023.

Gram-Hanssen, Kirsten. "Residential Heat Comfort Practices: Understanding the Users."

Gupta, R., and M. Gregg. "Energy Use and Overheating Risk in the UK."

Hitchings, Russell. "Communities of Practice and Thermal Comfort."

Kim, J., and T. Kim. "Occupant Awareness and Satisfaction."

Liboiron, Max. Pollution Is Colonialism. Duke University Press, 2021.

Nicol, Fergus, and Susan Roaf. "Rethinking Thermal Comfort."

Nicol, Fergus, and Michael Humphreys. "Adaptive Thermal Comfort."

Nicol, Fergus, ed. "Introduction." Energy and Buildings, special issue on thermal comfort.

Nicol, Fergus. "Adaptive Comfort in Hot Humid Climates."

"Philosophy of Discomfort."

Shove, Elizabeth. "Beyond the ABC: Climate Change Policy and Theories of Social Change."

Shove, Elizabeth, and Heather Chappells. "Comfort."

Shove, Elizabeth, and Nicola Spurling. "Sustainable Practices." Introduction.

Shove, Elizabeth, and Gordon Walker. "What Is Energy For?"

Shove, Elizabeth. "What Is Wrong with Energy Efficiency?"

Shove, Elizabeth, et al. "Infrastructure and Social Transformation."

Shove, Elizabeth, et al. "Room Temperature and Thermal Energy."

Starosielski, Nicole. Media Hot and Cold. Elements series. Duke University Press, 2021.

Wallenborn, Grégoire, and Harold Wilhite. "Embodied Knowledge and Household Consumption."

Winters. "Low Carbon Comfort."

"Air Conditioning in the Media."

"User Experience in a Low Energy Home."

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