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Infrastructures of consumption : environmental innovation in the utility industries / by Bas van Vliet, Heather Chappells and Elizabeth Shove.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vliet, Bas van.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Infrastructure (Economics)--Environmental aspects--Great Britain.
- Infrastructure (Economics).
- Infrastructure (Economics)--Environmental aspects--Netherlands.
- Technological innovations--Environmental aspects--Great Britain.
- Technological innovations.
- Technological innovations--Environmental aspects--Netherlands.
- Green technology--Great Britain.
- Green technology.
- Green technology--Netherlands.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (140 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Sterling, VA : Earthscan, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- For many years, a uniform and uncontested picture of utility system organization has endured across Europe. Provider and consumer roles have been largely taken for granted, and consumers have had little choice but to use the infrastructure of the only network provider available. Recent transformations have challenged this model. This book examines the ongoing environmental restructuring of consumption and provision in energy, water and waste systems. In accounting for the distinctive environmental qualities, technical features, and institutional dynamics of utility systems this book challenges
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Linking utilities and users
- 3. Infrastructural change and sustainable consumption
- 4. Differentiation and choice in water, electricity and waste services
- 5. Shifting scales and the co-production of green grids
- 6. New modes of 'sustainable' provision
- 7. Restructuring demand and efficiency
- 8. Systems of provision and innovation.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-56301-6
- 1-84977-172-3
- 1-280-47600-1
- 9786610476008
- 1-136-56302-4
- 600-00-0281-5
- 1-4237-2843-2
- 9781849771726
- OCLC:
- 466434249
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