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Sustainable practices : social theory and climate change / edited by Elizabeth Shove and Nicola Spurling.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge advances in sociology ; 95.
- Routledge advances in sociology ; 95
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmentalism--Social aspects.
- Environmentalism.
- Climatic changes--Social aspects.
- Climatic changes.
- Sustainable development--Social aspects.
- Sustainable development.
- Environmental policy--Social aspects.
- Environmental policy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (411 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Climate change is widely agreed to be one the greatest challenges facing society today. Mitigating and adapting to it is certain to require new ways of living. Thus far efforts to promote less resource-intensive habits and routines have centred on typically limited understandings of individual agency, choice and change. This book shows how much more the social sciences have to offer.The contributors to Sustainable Practices: Social Theory and Climate Change come from different disciplines - sociology, geography, economics and philosophy - but are alike in taking social
- Contents:
- pt. 1. How are practices defined and how do they change?
- pt. 2. The materials of practice
- pt. 3. Sharing and circulation
- pt. 4. Relations between practices
- pt. 5. Sustainability, inequality and power.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-09402-0
- 0-203-07105-0
- 1-299-38682-2
- 1-135-09403-9
- 9780203071052
- OCLC:
- 833767574
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