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TY - CHAP
T1 - Demand by design
T2 - how our infrastructures and professions shape what we do
AU - Spurling, Nicola Jane
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - In recent years, there have been three questions which concern me: 1) how and why have our everyday lives become so resource intensive?; 2) why are current resource intensive patterns so persistent despite efforts to instigate change?; and 3) how might these trends be shifted, so that our patterns of everyday life are more sustainable? These questions form the starting point for this short article, in which I present some recent thinking from the social sciences, which has made headway in tackling these questions. I then build on these ideas, to point out some themes which future research might fruitfully explore.
AB - In recent years, there have been three questions which concern me: 1) how and why have our everyday lives become so resource intensive?; 2) why are current resource intensive patterns so persistent despite efforts to instigate change?; and 3) how might these trends be shifted, so that our patterns of everyday life are more sustainable? These questions form the starting point for this short article, in which I present some recent thinking from the social sciences, which has made headway in tackling these questions. I then build on these ideas, to point out some themes which future research might fruitfully explore.
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SP - 10
EP - 17
BT - Sustainability
A2 - Robison, Rosie
PB - Global Sustainability Institute, ARU
CY - Cambridge, UK.
ER -