ISBN:
064310352X
,
1283375893
,
9780643096875
,
9780643103528
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (VII, 293 S.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Urban Consumption
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Explores the prospect for winding back current levels of household consumption in high income societies
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgement; List of contributors; 1 Consumption and environmental sustainability; Consumption in context; 2 Inside looking out: the global politics of Australia's population debates; 3 The Ecological Footprint of consumption: spatial and sectoral context; 4 Consumption and the environment: impacts from a system perspective; 5 The elementary forms of the consumerist life: a sociological perspective; 6 Consumer sentiment and consumption; 7 The psychology of consumption; 8 Consuming online in Australia; Household consumption in an urban context
Description / Table of Contents:
9 Australian household consumption and the slow burn of the environment10 Food consumption in Australia; 11 Wasteful consumption; 12 Sustainable travel: mobility, lifestyle and practice; 13 Consuming the urban environment: a study of the factors that influence resource use in an Australian city; 14 Understanding household attitudes and behaviours towards waste, water and energy conservation; 15 Factors in energy and water consumption; 16 Practices involving energy and water consumption in migrant households
Description / Table of Contents:
17 Spatial and socioeconomic drivers of direct and indirect household energy consumption in Australia18 Who cares? An exploration of attitudes and behaviour towards the conservation of resources; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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