Consuming mobility: a practice approach to sustainable mobility transitions

The current fossil fuel-based system of mobility is associated with a wide range of environmental and social problems. There is a growing body of literature on system innovations and transitions which has as a common understanding that long-term transformative change is necessary to deal with these...

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1. Verfasser: Nijhuis, Jorrit O. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Wageningen, The Netherlands Wageningen Academic Publishers 2013
Schriftenreihe:Environmental policy series volume 10
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Zusammenfassung:The current fossil fuel-based system of mobility is associated with a wide range of environmental and social problems. There is a growing body of literature on system innovations and transitions which has as a common understanding that long-term transformative change is necessary to deal with these complex problems. However, knowledge on the crucial role of citizen-consumers in sustainable mobility transitions is still underdeveloped. By incorporating the viewpoint of consumption patterns and everyday life routines, this book provides (new) knowledge on the role of citizen-consumers in sustainable mobility transitions. Theoretically, a practice based approach is developed as a novel framework to analyse, understand and influence transition processes to sustainable mobility at the level of everyday life. The focus in each of the three cases studies is on situated interactions between consumers
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references
""Table of contents""; ""Preface""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Chapter 1. Introduction""; ""1.1 Are you driving a flex-fuel vehicle?""; ""1.2 Mobility as a complex problem""; ""1.3 The approach of system innovations and transitions""; ""1.3.1 The multi-level perspective""; ""1.3.2 Criticism on the absence of citizen-consumers in the transition perspective""; ""1.4 Models of sustainable consumer behaviour""; ""1.5 A practice approach to sustainable mobility""; ""1.6 Objective and research questions""; ""1.7 Methodology and outline of the book""
""Chapter 2. Shifting policy perspectives on sustainable mobility. Towards a demand-oriented mobility """"2.1 Introduction""; ""2.2 The issue of sustainable mobility""; ""2.2.1 Defining sustainable mobility""; ""2.2.2 Environmental dimensions of sustainable mobility""; ""2.2.3 Trends in environmental impacts of mobility""; ""2.2.4 To shift or not to shift?""; ""2.2.5 Sustainable mobility: resumé""; ""2.3 Storylines with respect to the governance of sustainable mobility""; ""2.3.1 Discourses in UK mobility policy""; ""2.3.2 Discourses in Dutch mobility policy""; ""2.3.3 Synthesis""
""2.4 Innovation and mobility, the role of citizen-consumers in sustainability transitions""""Chapter 3. Analysing mobility as an everyday life consumption routine""; ""3.1 Introduction""; ""3.2 What is this �thing� called consumption?""; ""3.2.1 Producer-led versus consumer-led approaches to consumption""; ""3.2.2 The relevance of consumption theories for car mobility""; ""3.3 From conspicuous consumption to social practices""; ""3.3.1 The role of routines in consumption""; ""3.3.2 Contemporary theories of practice""
""3.4 Contrast: a theoretical perspective on the analysis of transition-processes within consumption domains""""3.4.1 The ecological modernisation of consumption""; ""3.4.2 Towards a research agenda""; ""3.5 Resumé""; ""Chapter 4. Consumer-oriented strategies in the practice of new car purchasing""; ""4.1 Introduction""; ""4.2 The practice of car purchasing""; ""4.2.1 Acquiring a car: a typology of the system of provision""; ""4.2.2 Consumer�s car purchasing process""; ""4.3 Formats of environmental information provision in car purchasing""; ""4.3.1 Environmental information tools""
""4.3.2 Face to face communication""""4.3.3 Advertisements and in-store presentation""; ""4.3.4 Monetarisation""; ""4.3.5 Towards a framework of environmental information flows""; ""4.4 Methodology""; ""4.5 Results 1: an analysis at the consumption junction""; ""4.5.1 The purchasing practice and the role of environmental factors""; ""4.5.2 Assessment of environmental information tools""; ""4.5.3 Mediating environmental information""; ""4.5.4 In-store structuration based on potential provider strategies""; ""4.6 Results 2: an analysis of the Dutch automobile market""
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (259 Seiten .)
ISBN:9086867944
9789086867943
DOI:10.3920/978-90-8686-794-3