Transitions on the home front: A story of sustainable living beyond eco-efficiency

Hagbert, Pernilla; Bradley, Karin

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2017.05.002

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“…Different patterns of preferences for consuming different types of products are generally associated with different lifestyles. There are several factors affecting lifestyles (e.g., knowledge, value, culture, and beliefs) [28,44] and thereby daily choices. Among these factors, knowledge held and considered credible [45] by individuals is important.…”

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How “Green Knowledge” Influences Sustainability through Behavior Change: Theory and Policy Implications

Zhang

Chabay

2020

Sustainability

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The urgent and critical challenges of transforming patterns of behavior from current unsustainable ones are encapsulated in the 2015 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Central to these goals and targets are systems of sustainable consumption and production. This crucial goal depends on consumers and producers making choices that depend on knowledge available to them and on other factors influencing their preferences in accordance with norms and culture. This paper investigates how “green knowledge” (i.e., knowledge of ecologically and socially sound products and practices) influences sustainability in the intersections of knowledge, preferences, behavior, and economic and environmental performance. By employing a general equilibrium economic model, we show that consumers, producers, and industry regulators with different degrees of knowledge and concern about the health and environmental benefits of products and production would lead to different economic and environmental consequences. As “green knowledge” influences consumption patterns and government policy-making, our model shows that, in principle, there will be a shift in the content of the economy to that which supports the achievement of long-term sustainability.

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“…Indeed, substantial research literature on sustainable consumption has emerged over the past decade [20][21][22][23][24]. These authors focused on the unsustainable nature of current lifestyles and the ways in which these lifestyles could be steered in a more sustainable direction [11,[25][26][27][28].…”

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How “Green Knowledge” Influences Sustainability through Behavior Change: Theory and Policy Implications

Zhang

Chabay

2020

Sustainability

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“…First, a pioneering study by Naess and Xue (2016) evaluates the efficacy of developing minimum and maximum housing standards both in Norway and more generally and considers the obstacles that such a policy programme would encounter under both neoliberal and Keynesian frameworks. Second, Hagbert and Bradley (2017) interrogate mainstream conceptions of "sustainable housing" that are strongly committed to the deployment of eco-efficient devices and other household technologies that offer a prospect of "green lifestyles." Based on interviews with Swedish respondents striving to adopt "low-impact ways of living," the authors demonstrate the limits of this approach and describe the multifaceted ways in which notions of the home are being reconstituted to more effectively achieve this objective.…”

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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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“…Micro-scale projects can also help gain insights into, duplicate and upscale local success stories, for example by understanding the concerns, motives and preferences of citizens coming from intentional, non-mainstream communities, in which climate-friendly lifestyles and energy profiles are already a reality: eco-villages [109] , transition towns [110] , slow food [111] , alternative housing models [112] , youth movements [113] , etc. Science is well-equipped with appropriate tools to facilitate engaging [114] with stakeholders at the local scale, towards capturing the ambition driving their motivation [52] , as well as their concerns and factors hampering further action, as lessons to be learnt and diffused.…”

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The desirability of transitions in demand: Incorporating behavioural and societal transformations into energy modelling

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Lieu

Şorman

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Energy Research & Social Science

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Quantitative systems modelling in support of climate policy has tended to focus more on the supply side in assessing interactions among technology, economy, environment, policy and society. By contrast, the demand side is usually underrepresented, often emphasising technological options for energy efficiency improvements. In this perspective, we argue that scientific support to climate action is not only about exploring capacity of “what”, in terms of policy and outcome, but also about assessing feasibility and desirability, in terms of “when”, “where” and especially for “whom”. Without the necessary behavioural and societal transformations, the world faces an inadequate response to the climate crisis challenge. This could result from poor uptake of low-carbon technologies, continued high-carbon intensive lifestyles, or economy-wide rebound effects. For this reason, we propose a framing for a holistic and transdisciplinary perspective on the role of human choices and behaviours in influencing the low-carbon transition, starting from the desires of individuals and communities, and analysing how these interact with the energy and economic landscape, leading to systemic change at the macro-level. In making a case for a political ecology agenda, we expand our scope, from comprehending the role of societal acceptance and uptake of end-use technologies, to co-developing knowledge with citizens from non-mainstream and marginalised communities, and to defining the modelling requirements to assess the decarbonisation potential of shifting lifestyle patterns in climate change and action.

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Transitions on the home front: A story of sustainable living beyond eco-efficiency

Cited by 43 publications

References 48 publications

How “Green Knowledge” Influences Sustainability through Behavior Change: Theory and Policy Implications

How “Green Knowledge” Influences Sustainability through Behavior Change: Theory and Policy Implications

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

The desirability of transitions in demand: Incorporating behavioural and societal transformations into energy modelling

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