Sustainable lifestyles: Framing environmental action in and around the home

Barr, Stewart; Gilg, Andrew W.

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2006.05.002

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“…Thus, living in a community valuing climate mitigation efforts may make households become engaged in sustainable energy practices (Aall et al, 2007;Barr and Gilg, 2006;. To understand the logic of household energy consumption, one may also analyze empirically the actual economic practices of energy use.…”

Section: Concerned Consumption Global Warming Changing Household Dommentioning

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Concerned consumption. Global warming changing household domestication of energy

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This paper addresses possible effects of the growing focus on global warming on households' domestication of energy and the dynamics of energy consumption by comparing data pertaining to the domestication of energy within Norwegian households from two time periods: first, 1991-1995, when climate change was given little public attention, and, second, 2006-2009, after climate change became a major public concern. In the first period, the domestication of energy resulted in an energy culture emphasizing comfort and convenience with respect to everyday life and the abundant supply of clean hydropower. In the second period, this culture seemed to have changed, making many households concerned about their energy consumption. Consumption of energy was linked to climate change, and many interviewees claimed to save energy. However, the dominant expectation was still to be able to manage everyday life in a convenient and comfortable way. Thus, climate change concerns produced important but not comprehensive changes in the domestication of energy. A main effect was feelings of guilt, tempered by arguments regarding why change is difficult and complaints about political inaction. Thus, public engagement with climate change issues may facilitate energy efficiency policy but to succeed, wider climate policy measures seem to be needed.

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Section: Concerned Consumption Global Warming Changing Household Dommentioning

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Concerned consumption. Global warming changing household domestication of energy

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“…The literature contains empirical studies that indicate a positive relationship across domains [10], or activities within the home environment [22,23,24], as well as studies that cannot find such a relationship, [25].…”

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Can Mobility Management Campaigning Contribute to Pro-Environmental Behaviour in General? Development of an Analytical Tool

Hiselius

2014

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“…This can be framed in scalar terms: the macro-scale (of governments and large corporations), the meso-scale of households and neighbourhoods, and the micro-scale of individual behaviour. While social research in relation to materials recycling and reuse has been conducted at a range of analytical scales, from the macro-scale of changing waste management regimes (Gille 2007, Cooper 2008, Bulkeley et al, 2007, the meso-scale of the household and neighbourhood (Gregson et al 2007, Williams and Widebank 2005, Lane et al 2009, Watson and Lane 2011, through to the micro-scale of individual behaviour (Barr and Gilg 2006), these understandings of social institutions and processes operating at multiple scales have not yet come to inform waste management policy generally or approaches to product stewardship in particular. This may be in part due to the lack of explicit engagement with the themes of IE and EM within social research in this area.…”

Section: Waste and Progress Towards A Sustainable Materials Economymentioning

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“…Research from Australia and the UK shows that consumers are motivated by a range of factors, not just economic dimensions and not just environmental ethics (Hobson, 2003(Hobson, , 2004Gregson and Crewe, 2003;Gregson et al, 2007;Lane et al, 2009;Lane, 2011;Barr and Gilg, 2006;. As the provision of kerbside collection of materials and associated infrastructures have made recycling a great deal more convenient, new social norms have emerged.…”

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“…In this paper we focus on how these issues play out in countries governed through liberal democracies such as the UK and Australia, recognising that there are significant differences in governance regimes around the materials economy associated with different forms of government and their historical trajectories (Gille 2007, Dong and Goldstein 2006. From corporations adjusting to Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) legislation (Ehrenfeld, 2000;Walls, 2006) to householders washing and sorting used packaging into different bins (Hobson, 2004(Hobson, , 2006Barr and Gilg, 2006), established social relations around materials that could be waste have been unsettled. In combination, a succession of policy changes and modest transformations in countries like the UK or Australia aim to move material economies towards convergence with principles of Ecological Modernisation and Industrial Ecology (Huber, 2000;Graedel and Allenby, 2003).…”

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Stewardship of things: The radical potential of product stewardship for re-framing responsibilities and relationships to products and materials

Lane

Watson

2012

Geoforum

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Abstract:In the context of broad-based concerns about the need to move towards a more sustainable materials economy, particularly as they are expressed in debates around ecological modernisation (EM), we argue that product stewardship has radical potential as a means to promote significant change in the relationship between society and the material world. We focus on two important dimensions that have been neglected in approaches to product stewardship to date. Firstly, we argue that immanent within the basic concept of stewardship is a problematisation of dominant understandings of property ownership in neoliberal market economies. In the space opened up by notions of stewardship, different ways of enacting both rights and responsibilities to products and materials emerge which have potential to advance the sustainability of material economies. Secondly, through exploration of existing expressions of product stewardship, we uncover a neglected scale of action. Both policy and dominant articulations of EM focus primarily on the efficiency of production processes; and secondarily, the attitudes and behaviours of individual consumers. Missing from this is the 'meso-scale' of social collectives including households, neighbourhoods, more distributed communities and small scale social enterprises. Based on a review of existing research from Australia and the UK, including our own, we argue that understanding of embedded practices of material responsibility at the household scale can both reinvigorate the concept of product stewardship as a potentially radical intervention, and reveal the potential of the meso-scale as a challenging but worthwhile realm of policy intervention.Stewardship of things: The radical potential of product stewardship for re-framing responsibilities and relationships to products and materials Lane and Watson 2

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Sustainable lifestyles: Framing environmental action in and around the home

Cited by 255 publications

References 54 publications

Concerned consumption. Global warming changing household domestication of energy

Concerned consumption. Global warming changing household domestication of energy

Can Mobility Management Campaigning Contribute to Pro-Environmental Behaviour in General? Development of an Analytical Tool

Stewardship of things: The radical potential of product stewardship for re-framing responsibilities and relationships to products and materials

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