Challenges and opportunities for re-framing resource use policy with practice theories: The change points approach

Watson, Matt; Browne, Alison; Evans, David M.; Foden, Michael; Hoolohan, Claire; Sharp, Liz

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102072

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“…A social practice perspective draws attention to routines and sociotechnical systems that give rise to and sustain high-carbon lifestyles, e.g., through interlocking practices of leisure and work and visions of a good life associated with features such as convenience and comfort. Social practice theories propose that in focusing mainly on technological substitution and behavioral change, inadequate attention has been paid to complex and distributed factors that normalize and expand high-carbon lifestyles (164). This critique has also been directed to identify alternative targets for intervention (165), positioning decarbonization as a question of how to unsettle high-carbon routines and normalize low-carbon alternatives, or how to grow low-carbon practices (e.g., practices of sharing and active, nonmotorized travel) while simultaneously shrinking those associated with high levels of emissions (e.g., practices associated with fast fashion and automobility).…”

Section: High-carbon Lifestylesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Three Decades of Climate Mitigation: Why Haven't We Bent the Global Emissions Curve?

Stoddard

Anderson

Capstick

et al. 2021

Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour.

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Despite three decades of political efforts and a wealth of research on the causes and catastrophic impacts of climate change, global carbon dioxide emissions have continued to rise and are 60% higher today than they were in 1990. Exploring this rise through nine thematic lenses—covering issues of climate governance, the fossil fuel industry, geopolitics, economics, mitigation modeling, energy systems, inequity, lifestyles, and social imaginaries—draws out multifaceted reasons for our collective failure to bend the global emissions curve. However, a common thread that emerges across the reviewed literature is the central role of power, manifest in many forms, from a dogmatic political-economic hegemony and influential vested interests to narrow techno-economic mindsets and ideologies of control. Synthesizing the various impediments to mitigation reveals how delivering on the commitments enshrined in the Paris Agreement now requires an urgent and unprecedented transformation away from today's carbon- and energy-intensive development paradigm. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Volume 46 is October 2021. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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Section: High-carbon Lifestylesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Three Decades of Climate Mitigation: Why Haven't We Bent the Global Emissions Curve?

Stoddard

Anderson

Capstick

et al. 2021

Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour.

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“…Practice theories have been suggested as a fruitful approach to theorising social change, especially in the context of sustainable consumption (e.g. Hargreaves, 2011;Warde et al, 2017;Watson et al, 2020).…”

Section: Theorising Change With a Practice-theoretical Lensmentioning

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“…Researchers have also studied practices connected to consumers' food waste reduction, highlighting their roles as temporality organisers (Mattila et al, 2019), exploring different elements within the reduction practices (Närvänen et al, 2013;Sirola et al, 2019) and analysing the intersections between practices of reusing and revaluing food and aiming for the good of the family (Cappellini & Parsons, 2012). The practicetheoretical approach has also been applied in research focusing on fostering change, suggesting policy, business and research strategies to change food waste-related practices (Schanes et al, 2018), and highlighting the different changepoints for policymakers to tackle if aiming to create food waste-related changes (Watson et al, 2020).…”

Section: Accelerating Social Change In the Context Of Food Wastementioning

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Constructing the food waste issue on social media: a discursive social marketing approach

Sutinen

Närvänen

2021

Journal of Marketing Management

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The purpose of the paper is to examine how market actors participate in the socio-cultural construction of the food waste issue through social media. The paper draws from practice theory and adopts a research approach combining netnography and discourse analysis. The data consist of postings within a vivid social media discussion during a social marketing campaign. The findings shed light on how different market actors construct the food waste issue through discourses of explanation, exhibition and appeal. These discourses differ in their focus, tone and, most importantly, their potential for practice change in the context of food waste. The study emphasises the importance of understanding the discourses of complex sustainability issues and acknowledges the role of social marketing in maintaining and/or transforming these discourses.

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“…To date, the majority of change initiatives in Europe that target household-energy consumption have typically focused on changing technology or individuals' behavior, for example by guiding consumers toward more sustainable alternatives or making consumption more efficient through technology (Jensen et al 2019). However, the ability of such change initiatives to bring about real gains and lasting energy savings remains subject to intense debate (e.g., Rau et al 2019;Watson et al 2020), partly because they do not fundamentally modify the underlying practices or challenge routines. In fact, interventions can sometimes contribute to the locking in of unsustainable practices whenever wider social conventions are not addressed (Shove 2018;Spurling et al 2013).…”

Section: Changing Practices At Community Levelmentioning

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Challenging practices: experiences from community and individual living lab approaches

Matschoss

Fahy

Rau

et al. 2021

Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy

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In this article, we examine a change initiative designed to involve households in testing ways to transform two everyday practicesheating and doing laundry. The research design included an examination of the challenges of changing practices either in a setting that fosters collective engagement or with individual households. Two different types of living labs were carried out simultaneously in eight European countries in Autumn-Winter 2018. We reflect on differences in results in terms of both changes in practices and the experiences of participating households that we argue can be at least partially attributed to householders' engagement in different types of living labs. We discuss the implications of an individualfocused vs. community-oriented approach for change initiatives seeking to challenge social norms for sustainability transitions, concentrating in particular on differences in the nature of participants' engagement and their willingness and ability to challenge routine practices. This is complemented by analytical reflections on the differences in design, interaction, and performance between the two types of living labs. We show that an explicit focus on collaborative engagement in living labs can produce results that reflect shared experiences, community support, challenging established norms, and collective commitment toward change.

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Challenges and opportunities for re-framing resource use policy with practice theories: The change points approach

Cited by 59 publications

References 53 publications

Three Decades of Climate Mitigation: Why Haven't We Bent the Global Emissions Curve?

Three Decades of Climate Mitigation: Why Haven't We Bent the Global Emissions Curve?

Constructing the food waste issue on social media: a discursive social marketing approach

Challenging practices: experiences from community and individual living lab approaches

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