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Putting Sustainability into Practice offers a robust and
interdisciplinary understanding of contemporary consumption
routines that challenges conventional approaches to social change
premised on behavioral economics and social psychology. Empirical
research is featured from eight different countries, using both
qualitative and quantitative data to support its thesis. Given the
complex and systemic nature of contemporary ecological issues like
climate change, a rapidly growing group of scholars is seeking new
explanations of behavioral patterns and behavioral change. These
new accounts clarify why patterns of consumption and waste continue
to be unsustainable despite a wealth of information proving
sustainability's importance. In particular, social practice
theories offer a way of understanding how material consumption is
built into the everyday work of belonging and shaping one's social
life. Putting Sustainability into Practice contributes to the rich
scholarship developed to date by applying social practice theories
to case studies. These case studies are likely to be especially
valuable to readers who are relatively new to the social practice
perspective. The volume also includes research that advances social
practice theories, moving the study of sustainable consumption into
novel terrain such as sustainable finance, collective action, and
social policy. This book offers multiple empirical applications of
social practice theories in sustainable consumption, advancing this
research area in such a way that will attract academics to its
findings. Those teaching classes in the environmental social
sciences will find this introduction suitable for the classroom as
well. It offers a rare account of the history of social practice
theories and provides numerous case studies to which one can apply
these approaches. Graduate students will also find this a useful
guide to conducting empirical research on sustainable consumption
and civic engagement from a social practices perspective.
Contributors: J. Backhaus, S. Barr, T. Bateman, F. Forno, M.
Gismondi, C. Grasseni, M. Jaeger-Erben, D. Kasper, R. Kemp, J.
Marois, J. Ruckert-John, M. Sahakian, C. Schelly, S. Signori, D.
Straith, H. Wieser
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