Consumption, Sustainability and Everyday Life

"In showing how concepts of consumption, sustainability and everyday life have combined and changed over time and in confronting fundamental questions of excess, growth and the ratcheting of demand, this is a book that looks to the future. Individually and in combination the chapters underscore...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Hansen, Arve (Editor), Bo Nielsen, Kenneth (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Edition:1st ed. 2023.
Series:Consumption and Public Life,
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Consumption, sustainability and everyday life
  • 2. Capitalism, consumption, and the transformation of everyday life: The political economy of social practices
  • 3. Household Energy Practices in Low-energy Buildings: A qualitative Study of Klosterenga Ecological Housing Cooperative
  • 4. Solar water heating: informing decarbonization policy by listening to the users
  • 5. Sufficiency in China's energy provision. A service understanding of sustainable consumption and production
  • 6. Practices, provision and protest: Power outages in rural Norwegian households
  • 7. The rise and fall of the 'people's car': middle-class aspirations, status and mobile symbolism in 'New India'
  • 8. Practical aeromobilities: making sense of environmentalist air-travel
  • 9. Everyday life and how it changes: studying 'sustainable wellbeing' with students during a pandemic
  • 10. Towards sustainable transport practices in a coastal community in Norway. Insights from human needs and social practice approaches
  • 11. Value Mapping: Practical Tools for Wellbeing and Sustainable Consumption
  • 12. Can economics help to understand, and change, consumption behaviour? - 13. Towards sustainable consumption: reflections on the concepts of social loading, excess, and idle capacity.