“It’s Just a Matter of Adjustment”: Residents’ Perceptions and the Potential for Low-impact Home Practices

Hagbert, Pernilla

doi:10.1080/14036096.2016.1141797

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“…However, dwelling size can also be studied with a focus on the environmental dimension of sustainability; the concern, then, is to decrease dwelling size from one of excess space to a sufficient level. This is a concern primarily in high-consuming societies (Hagbert 2016) and is the focus of this study. This stream of research is depicted in the upper half of Figure 1.…”

Section: Dwelling Size and Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, previous research has only touched upon the possibility of decreasing dwelling size. Most notably, Hagbert (2016) has analyzed people’s potential willingness to live in smaller spaces and engage in voluntary simplicity, consuming less to preserve the environment. Her findings indicate an openness to downsizing, with two-thirds of respondents in a qualitative interview study reporting being willing to consider living in a smaller dwelling and 40 per cent reporting a willingness to engage in voluntary simplicity (Hagbert 2016, pp.…”

Section: Dwelling Size and Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Madeddu, Gallent, and Mace 2015; Winston and Eastaway 2008). Decreases in dwelling size motivated by environmental sustainability have only begun to attract research interest, with a handful of studies only touching on the subject (Anson 2014; Hagbert 2016; Hagbert and Femenías 2016).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, previous research has suggested that reductions in consumption require that consumers must challenge dominant consumption norms (Gorge et al 2015; Hagbert 2016). The findings of this study suggest that it is also possible to frame reductions in consumption as conforming to dominant norms.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Downsizing of Housing

Sandberg

2017

Journal of Macromarketing

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Housing is one of the major sources of the environmental impact of consumption. An aspect of housing that has rarely been considered in previous studies on sustainable housing is the size of the dwelling, even though research has shown the impact of dwelling size on the environmental impact of housing to be significant. This study analyzes socio-cultural meanings about downsizing as well as norms about dwelling size. The study analyzes naturally occurring, cultural texts (media texts and corporate communications about small-sized dwellings). The study offers a view on how the meaning of downsizing is negotiated, the (in)voluntariness of downsizing emerging as the main point to be negotiated. Additionally, the study offers understanding for how norms about dwelling size are negotiated in order to normalize smaller dwellings. In these ways, the study offers researchers insights about how downsizing can be advanced in order to reduce the environmental impact of housing.

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Section: Dwelling Size and Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Dwelling Size and Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Downsizing of Housing

Sandberg

2017

Journal of Macromarketing

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“…The paper first highlights the concept of sufficiency as it applies to housing (Hagbert 2016;Hagbert and Femenias 2016;Sandberg 2018;Lorek and Spangenberg 2019;Moberg et al 2019;Cohen 2019). Second, it builds on prior work on "sustainable consumption corridors" and "doughnut economics" to formulate parameters for sufficient home size based on an environmentally tenable and globally equitable amount of per person living area (Di Giulio and Fuchs 2014;Raworth 2017).…”

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New Conceptions of Sufficient Home Size in High-Income Countries: Are We Approaching a Sustainable Consumption Transition?

Cohen

2020

Housing, Theory and Society

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Housing plays a significant role in impelling demand for natural resources and driving economic growth in high-income countries. Public policies, commercial prerogatives, and other inducements have encouraged construction and occupancy of ever-larger homes and this pattern has persisted in the face of decreasing household size, declining fertility, ageing populations, and increasing complexity of domestic relationships. This situation has created a perverse mismatch between available housing stocks and residential requirements. Additionally, imperatives to curtail greenhouse-gas emissions and to hasten progress on the United Nations 2030 Agenda demand new planning priorities. Building on the sufficiency turn in the field of sustainable consumption, this paper first formulates parameters for estimating an environmentally tenable and globally equitable amount of per person living area. It then highlights five emblematic cases of "space-efficient" housing. While acknowledging that prevalent spatial norms are evolving, the conclusion discusses the profound challenges of achieving a successful sustainable consumption transition.

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All Doors Lead to the Kitchen – Sustainability and Wellbeing Challenges in a Shared Centrepiece of Living

Rahe

2018

Human Systems Engineering and Design

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The kitchen figures a central place in the home where a significant share of a household's resource consumption takes place. Sharing the kitchen between multiple households has potential to bring positive sustainability effects due to more efficient use of both material resources and energy. The concept of shared kitchens has, however, thus far had a limited diffusion. This paper explores the potential of shared kitchens as a future sustainable living environment by studying user experiences from a Living Lab setting. It builds the base for an overarching larger European collaboration on how future shared kitchens should be designed in order to support everyday practices while optimising the conditions for achieving positive impact on both sustainability and wellbeing. Findings are presented from five focus areas concerning different use contexts: (1) accessing, (2) cooking, (3) living and socialising, (4) storing, and (5) cleaning.

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“It’s Just a Matter of Adjustment”: Residents’ Perceptions and the Potential for Low-impact Home Practices

Cited by 10 publications

References 55 publications

Downsizing of Housing

Downsizing of Housing

New Conceptions of Sufficient Home Size in High-Income Countries: Are We Approaching a Sustainable Consumption Transition?

All Doors Lead to the Kitchen – Sustainability and Wellbeing Challenges in a Shared Centrepiece of Living

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