Sustainable technologies and everyday life

Spaargaren, Gert; Martens, Susan; Beckers, Th.A.M.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-5196-8_11

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“…Scholars who endorse a social practices approach emphasize the interaction between motivation and context and hence choose a unit of analysis that is rather specific to a particular setting or application (Spaargaren 2003; Spaargaren et al 2006; Guy and Shove 2007; McMeekin and Southerton 2007; Gram‐Hanssen 2007, 2008; Kjellberg 2008; Quitzau and Røpke 2008; Wilhite 2008; Røpke 2009). For example, efforts to realign transportation preferences from this perspective should not concentrate on the physical dimensions of mobility but rather should focus on commuting, shopping, family visits, or beach holidays.…”

Section: Changes Toward Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Impacts of Household Consumption and Options for Change

Tukker

Cohen

Hubacek

et al. 2010

J of Industrial Ecology

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148

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This introductory article situates the contributions that comprise this special issue within the field of sustainable consumption and production (SCP) studies. After a brief review of the policy history surrounding SCP, we organize our discussion and the subsequent collection of articles into two groups. The first suite of articles views the environmental impacts associated with household consumption from the perspectives of different consumer groups, income levels, and geographic areas. This work confirms and refines several insights that have been developing over the past several years, namely that food and beverages, mobility, housing, and energy-using products are the most critical consumption domains from the standpoint of environmental sustainability and that higher household income leads to greater (but less than proportional) impacts. The second subset of articles analyzes the potential for mitigating these impacts through behavioral changes and innovation strategies. Although the contributions to this special issue describe several noteworthy examples of information-and team-based initiatives to catalyze behavioral changes, the state of knowledge pertaining to this aspect of the consumption problem is much more inchoate. Research on the formulation and implementation of effective "change management for sustainable consumption" should be treated as an area of priority attention for industrial ecologists.

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Section: Changes Toward Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Impacts of Household Consumption and Options for Change

Tukker

Cohen

Hubacek

et al. 2010

J of Industrial Ecology

194

148

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“…As greenhouse gas emissions associated with energy use have become central to climate and energy policy, so too has the demand for energy become a principle area of interest for social scientists across (sub-) disciplines including Human Geography, Anthropology, Sociology and STS. The growing interest in energy demand has been accompanied by a distinct shift in focus away from the attitudes, behaviours and choices of individuals (Shove 2010), towards an engagement with how energy use is constituted socially and materially (Guy 2006, Maassen 2009 (Spaargaren, 2011;Spaargaren et al, 2006;Stephenson et al, 2010;Strengers, 2011Strengers, , 2009Wilson andChatterton, 2011 Gram-Hanssen, 2011). Whilst this research has significantly advanced our understanding of how and why energy is used and the possibilities and limits of 'behaviour change' as a means for reducing demand, its predominant focus on the domestic sphere as the site through which energy use is constituted has limited its engagement with the dynamics of wider energy systems and a rather abstract engagement with the nature and properties of energy itself (Strengers & Maller 2012).…”

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Peak electricity demand and the flexibility of everyday life

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“…Spaargaren's model might be regarded as a bridge between the classic instrumental, environmental attitude and behavior approach and a more emancipatory, agency-based approach. At the same time, the model takes into account the influence of social (technological) structures on behavior (Spaargaren et al, 2006). Figure 3 presents Spaargaren's social practices model.…”

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All Mixed Up? Instrumental and Emancipatory Learning Toward a More Sustainable World: Considerations for EE Policymakers

Wals¹,

Geerling-Eijff²,

Hubeek³

et al. 2008

Applied Environmental Education & Communication

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World wide, policymakers are looking for ways to use education and communication strategies to create a world that is more sustainable than the one currently in prospect. They often find themselves trapped between instrumental (behavior change) and emancipatory (human development) uses of such strategies. This study sheds light on this apparent divide by investigating four exemplary cases representing both orientations and mixes thereof. One outcome of the study is that EE policymakers but also EE professionals first need to reflect on the kind of change challenge that is at stake. Only then are they able to determine what kind of education, participation, communication, or mix thereof is most appropriate, what kinds of results can best be pursued, and what monitoring and evaluation system can best be employed.

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Sustainable technologies and everyday life

Cited by 25 publications

References 8 publications

The Impacts of Household Consumption and Options for Change

The Impacts of Household Consumption and Options for Change

Peak electricity demand and the flexibility of everyday life

All Mixed Up? Instrumental and Emancipatory Learning Toward a More Sustainable World: Considerations for EE Policymakers

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