Keywords:
Material culture.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
Charting new research directions, this book constructs a series of imperatives for linking culturally informed research around household sustainability with policy and planning. The household, or 'home', is a critical scale for understanding activities that connect individual behaviours and societal attitudes. The focus on the household in this collection provides a window into the sheer diversity of homemaking and maintenance activities that entail resource use.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (254 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781409408161
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=674519
DDC:
577.554
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Part I Contributions of a Cultural Approach to Household Sustainability -- 2 Is It Easy Being Green? On the Dilemmas of Material Cultures of Household Sustainability -- 3 A Domestic Twist on the Eco-efficiency Turn: Environmentalism, Technology, Home -- 4 Sustainability, Consumption and the Household in Developing World Contexts -- Discussion: Interrogating the Household as a Field of Sustainability -- Part II Domestic Spaces and Material Flows -- 5 Beyond McMansions and Green Homes -- 6 Remaking Home: The Reuse of Goods and Materials in Australian Households -- 7 Bottled Water Practices: Reconfiguring Drinking in Bangkok Households -- Discussion: Watch Where That Went - We May Need It Later: Reflections on Material Flows in and through Home -- Part III Governance and Citizenship -- 8 Mapping Geographies of Reuse in Sheffield and Melbourne -- 9 Build It Like You Mean It: Replicating Ethical Innovation in Physical and Institutional Design -- 10 Rethinking Responsibility? Household Sustainability in the Stakeholder Society -- 11 Environmental Politics -- Discussion: Governance and Citizenship at Home -- 12 Conclusion: Tackling the 'Missing Scale' in Environmental Policy -- Index.
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