Sustainable practices : social theory and climate change / / edited by Elizabeth Shove and Nicola Spurling
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| Titolo: |
Sustainable practices : social theory and climate change / / edited by Elizabeth Shove and Nicola Spurling
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| Pubblicazione: | Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (411 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 304.2/5 |
| Soggetto topico: | Environmentalism - Social aspects |
| Climatic changes - Social aspects | |
| Sustainable development - Social aspects | |
| Environmental policy - Social aspects | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
ShoveElizabeth <1959->
SpurlingNicola
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | pt. 1. How are practices defined and how do they change? -- pt. 2. The materials of practice -- pt. 3. Sharing and circulation -- pt. 4. Relations between practices -- pt. 5. Sustainability, inequality and power. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Sustainable practices |
| ISBN: | 0-203-07105-0 |
| 1-299-38682-2 | |
| 1-135-09403-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910452467303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Routledge advances in sociology ; ; 95.