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Title Sustainable Practices : Social Theory and Climate Change / edited by Elizabeth Shove and Nicola Spurling
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series Routledge Advances in Sociology ; 95
Routledge advances in sociology ; 95.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Sustainable practices: social theory and climate change; Part I: How are practices defined and how do they change?; 2. What sort of a practice is eating?; 3. The edge of change: on the emergence, persistence and dissolution of practices; Part II: The materials of practice; 4. Transitions in the wrong direction? Digital technologies and daily life; 5. Mundane materials at work: paper in practice; Part III: Sharing and circulation
6. Practices, movement and circulation: implications for sustainability7. Sharing conventions: communities of practice and thermal comfort; Part IV: Relations between practices; 8. Building future systems of velomobility; 9. The making of electric cycling; 10. Extended bodies and the geometry of practices; Part V: Sustainability, inequality and power; 11. Power, sustainability and well being: an outsider's view; 12. Inequality, sustainability and capability: locating justice in social practice; Index
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Environmentalism -- Social aspects
Climatic changes -- Social aspects
Sustainable development -- Social aspects
Environmental policy -- Social aspects
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
Climatic changes -- Social aspects
Environmental policy -- Social aspects
Environmentalism -- Social aspects
Sustainable development -- Social aspects
Form Electronic book
Author Shove, Elizabeth, 1959-
Spurling, Nicola.
LC no. 2012036628
ISBN 9781135094034
1135094039
9780415540650
0415540658
9780203071052
0203071050
9781299386822
1299386822