1st Edition
Environmental Policy and Household Behaviour Sustainability and Everyday Life
Edited By Patrik Soderholm
Copyright 2011
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
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Our behaviour in our own homes - our recycling habits, consumer choices and transport preferences - all have a huge impact on the environment locally and globally. Governments across the world are trying to formulate and implement policies to encourage and enforce more sustainable household actions. Yet so often these policies fail to have the desired effects because of a lack of understanding of... Read more
1: Environmental Policy and Household Behaviour: An Introduction to the Volume
Part I: Environmental Policy and the Household: Conceptual Issues
2: The Swedish Environmental Norm: Balancing Environmental Obligations and the Pursuit of Individual Lifestyles
3: Dealing with environmental Responsibilities: Living Everyday Life as Political Participation
4: Sticks, Carrots and Legitimate Policies: Effectiveness and Acceptance in Environmental Public Policy
5: Barriers and Facilitators for Pro-environmental Behaviour
Part II: Empirical Analyses of the Swedish Case
6: Walk the Talk for Sustainable Everyday Life: Experiences from Eco-village Living in Sweden
7: Policy-driven Socio-technical Structures and Swedish Households' Consumption of Housing and Transport since the 1950s
8: Shared or Individual Responsibility? Eco-labelling and Consumer Choice in Sweden
9: Household Recycling and the Influence of Norms and Convenience
10: Driving Forces and Constraints to Sustainable Household Travel Behaviour
Part III: Concluding Part
11: Addressing Environmental Concern at the Household Level: Concluding Remarks
Index
Biography
Patrik Soderholm is Professor of Economics at Lule University of Technology.
'Household activities account for about a quarter of our CO2 emissions yet relatively little research attention has been paid to this vital arena. The combination of theoretical insights and empirical underpinnings presented here is unparalleled. The SHARP team has provided researchers with an indispensable framework for future studies and policy makers will find a wealth of grounded research here on which to base informed policy.' Professor Andrew Dobson, Keele University, UK
