Infrastructures of Consumption: Environmental Innovation in the Utility Industries

Author:   Elizabeth Shove ,  Heather Chappells ,  Bas Van Vliet
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781853839955


Pages:   160
Publication Date:   03 May 2005
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Elizabeth Shove ,  Heather Chappells ,  Bas Van Vliet
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Earthscan Ltd
Weight:   0.390kg
ISBN:  

9781853839955


ISBN 10:   1853839957
Pages:   160
Publication Date:   03 May 2005
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Unknown
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Part 1, Introduction * Utilities and users * Infrastructures and environmental innovation * Energy, water and waste: Characteristics and dynamics * Themes, questions and methods * Organization of the book * Part 2, Linking Utilities and Users * Green consumption * Resources, services and interdependent practices * Systems of provision and the construction and management of demand * Insights and implications * Part 3, Infrastructural Change and Sustainable Consumption * Modes of network organization and contexts for consumption * Understanding infrastructural change and transition * Infrastructural dynamics and new contexts for consumption * Part 4, Differentiation and Choice in Water, Electricity and Waste Services * Forms of differentiation in utility systems * Captive consumers in differentiated utility markets * Customers in differentiated utility markets * Citizen-consumers in differentiated utility markets * Consumer-providers in differentiated utility markets * Differentiation and consumer choice * Part 5 Shifting Scales and the Co-production of Green Grids * Four dimensions of scale in utility services * Roles and responsibilities of consumers and providers in distributed utility-service provision * Scale and modes of provision * Part 6, Modes of 'Sustainable' Provision * Sustainable housing initiatives * Conceptualizing new socio-technical arrangements * Constructing new socio-technical interdependencies * New modes of provision and the restructuring of demand * Part 7 Restructuring Demand and Efficiency * The development of demand-side management * Demand-side management approaches in The Netherlands and the UK * New ceilings and thresholds of demand * The structuring of demand * Part 8 Systems of Provision and Innovation * 'Green' connectivities * Systems of 'co-provision' * Recognizing connectivities: Implications and challenges *

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Bas van Vliet is Senior Lecturer at the Environmental Policy Group, Social Sciences Group, Wageningen University, The Netherlands. Heather Chappells is Research Associate, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University, UK. Elizabeth Shove is Reader in Sociology, Lancaster University

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