Putting sustainability into practice : applications and advances in research on sustainable consumption / edited by Emily Huddart Kennedy, assistant professor, Washington State University, USA, Maurie J. Cohen, professor, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA, Naomi T. Krogman, professor, University of Alberta, Canada.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative. Conference 2013 : Worcester, Mass.), issuing body.

Kennedy, Emily Huddart, 1980- editor.

Cohen, Maurie J., editor.

Krogman, Naomi, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consumption (Economics)--Environmental aspects.

Consumption (Economics).

Sustainable development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 244 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, United Kingdom : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Putting Sustainability into Practice offers a robust and interdisciplinary understanding of contemporary consumption routines that challenges conventional approaches to social change premised on behavioral economics and social psychology. Empirical research is featured from eight different countries, using both qualitative and quantitative data to support its thesis.

Contents:

PART I: Introduction

1. Social practice theories and research on sustainable consumption

PART II: Social mobilization and sustainable consumption

2. Contextualizing social practices: insights into social change

3. Environmental civic practices: synthesizing individual and collective sustainable consumption

4. Italy's Solidarity Purchase Groups as 'citizenship labs'

PART III: Collective dimensions of household practices

5. Beyond behavior change: social practice theory and the search for sustainable mobility

6. Disentangling practices, carriers, and production-consumption systems: a mixed-method study of (sustainable) food consumption

7. Getting emotional: historic and current changes in food consumption practices viewed through the lens of cultural theories

PART IV: Sustainable consumption and social innovation; 8. Researching transitions to sustainable consumption: a practice theory approach to studying innovations in consumption

9. How policy frameworks shape environmental practice: three cases of alternative dwelling

10. 'Unleashing Local Capital': scaling cooperative local investing practices

PART V: Concluding remarks

11. Forging further into putting sustainability into practice.

Notes:

Includes papers from the inaugural conference of the Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative (SCORAI), held at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts in July 2013.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78471-060-1

OCLC:

934433719