摘要: This book is about standard formation and technology diffusion in a specific inert socio-economic system: the residential built environment. The macro-behavior of this system emerges from interaction multiple agents. These agents base their actions on objectives perceptions, are therefore acting context bounded rationality. Additional properties environment long asset lifetime, significant information implementation delays, tightly coupled interactions economically related but legally independent focuses Swiss environment, whose important empirical explicated Sect. 4.1. Section 4.2 abstracts these details provides conceptual systems models which build foundation for Chaps. 5 6. 4.3, then, case study settings representative economic region mid-sized municipality Langenthal.