Fostering energy efficiency dynamics through Ex-Ante strategic niche management: the UK perspective

The United Kingdom building sector has been challenged to retrofit a huge stock of existing buildings in order to increase its adaptive capacity for climate change impacts. Addressing such challenges will require systematic structural changes in both, socio-technical and socio-political infrastructure. A numbers of studies have suggested the approach of strategic niche management of transition for sustainable technological regimes. Accordingly, any such transition would follow processes: early stages of niche formationcreation of policy mechanism required to harness the nichesniche expansion into incumbent regimeand the regime transition into more sustainable technological regime. Following this, the UK Government has introduced a raft of initiative