Sustainable Energy Consumption and Society: Personal, Technological, or Social Change?

摘要: List of Figures Tables Abbreviations Preface Acknowledgments 1: Sustainable Consumption And The Public's Room To Maneuver In Energy Use 1. Introduction 2. consumer society 3. trajectories in Western Europe 4. North-South disparities, Northern consumerist models, and global resource constraints 5. evolving international discourse on sustainable consumption 6. or production: Which is the better focus for addressing environmental problems? 7. to maneuver energy use 7.1 society's discretion 7.2 Individuals' 8. Research questions challenges this book 2: Targets Of Intervention For Efficiencies, patterns, levels 2.1 Patterns 2.2 Efficiency dematerialization 2.3 Levels An expanded multi-disciplinary analysis consumption's driving forces possibilities intervention 3.1 critiques 3.2 Psychological behavioral treatments 3.3 Social 3.4 Economic Conclusion: Policy syntheses political implications 4.1 Altering consumption: top-down bottom-up? 4.2 Political alternatives 3: Energy, Environment, Society: Knowledge Risk Communication Alternative research approaches a frame discussing knowledge context discretionary non-discretionary Introduction: Two two constructs Selected topics Energy-Revealing approach actors' Social-Revealing less influences risk communication Public Final comments furtherapplications 4: Field Study With Computer-Aided Interviews Experimental hypotheses user Software development modeling Original version Personal ECO2-Calculator Interview Interviewee recruitment description guideline Data capture, storage, means Subjects' biographical profiles Results 8.1 Subject groups 8.2 Terms 8.3 Hypotheses A B: Freedom Choice Capability 8.4 C, D, E: Non-discretionary accounting, Perception influences, Communicating about 8.5 Hypothesis H: Separation social from technological 8.6 G: Cross-temporal cross-cultural comparisons 8.7 Consumer-citizen involvement affecting less-discretionary 8.8 8.9 evaluation program interview session 5: Achievements, Open Questions, Lessons Learned have been answered? 1.1 Top-down 1.2 Metric gauging experimental success 1.3 Success researching applying domestic 1.4 Pedagogical timing Lifestyle differentiated responsibility Suggestions further Some open Divergence prevailing framework References Index