ISBN:
9780203071052
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 202 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Routledge advances in sociology
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
304.2/5
Keywords:
Environmentalism Social aspects
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Climatic changes Social aspects
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Sustainable development Social aspects
;
Environmental policy Social aspects
;
Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
;
Umweltschutz
;
Soziologie
;
Klimaänderung
;
Nachhaltigkeit
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of 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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
DOI:
10.4324/9780203071052
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