Sustainable Practices : Social Theory and Climate Change /
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 agenc...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2013.
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Colección: | Routledge advances in sociology ;
95. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.