Sustainable Consumption : Design, Innovation and Practice

183 Pages·2016·2.357 MB·English

by  Audley Genus (eds.)

The Anthropocene: Politik–Economics–Society–Science
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Sustainable
Consumption
Design, Innovation and Practice
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The Anthropocene: Politik Economics
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Volume 3
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Acknowledgments
The publication of this edited volume could not have been achieved without the
help and support of numerous people and organizations. I would like to
acknowledgetheYTLCorporation.TheYTLfundinghasallowedmetoparticipate
in a range of networks and activities involving researchers and practitioners, of
which the Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative (SCORAI) is
justone.Iwouldnothaveundertakenandcouldnothaverealizedthisbookproject
without the support of SCORAI colleagues.
IhopethoseIdonotnameinthefollowinglistwillforgivemebutamongthose
who have helped to develop my thinking about sustainable consumption and
innovationare:MaurieCohen;FrancesFahy;SylviaLorek;HenrikeRau;Marlyne
Sahakian; Edina Vadovics; and Philip Vergragt. I also wish to acknowledge the
workofthechapterauthorswhoworkedsowellunderthepressureoftimeIputon
them.
I also wish to say a heartfelt ‘thank you’ to my colleagues at Kingston
University,London,fortheirgeneralsupportbutalsoforseminarsanddiscussions
which have informed my thinking about innovation and sustainable behaviour and
practices. Just some of these colleagues include: Ruth Rettie, Tim Harries, John
Kitching, Rob Blackburn, Eva Kasperova and Mara Iskandarova; I should also
mention past colleagues Kevin Burchell, Alessandro Giudici and Arif Attar. Other
researchers who have suggested ideas, references to follow up and in some cases
contributed a chapter to the book include Anne-Marie Coles, Athena Piterou (of
University of Greenwich) and Adrian Smith (SPRU, University of Sussex).
Iammostcertainlyindebtedtothosepractitioners,someofwhomIhaveworked
with in the Transition Town movement, who have helped to shape my thinking
aboutenvironmentalactivismandtherolesofacademicresearchers therein.Ofthe
manyIcouldnameperhapsthefollowingdeserveaspecialmention:TomHenfrey;
Frances Hinton; Mandy Meikle; and Ann Thorpe. Of course, none of this work
could ever have been possible without the support and love of my family.
Accordingly, a very large vote of thanks goes to Claire and Alex.
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vi Acknowledgments
My sincere thanks go to Dr. Hans Günter Brauch, who commissioned and
copyeditedthebook,Dr.JohannaSchwarzandJanetSterritt-BrunnerofSpringerin
Heidelberg (Germany) and the production team in Chennai (India), without whom
the realization and production of the book would not have been possible.
Surrey, UK Audley Genus
August 2015
Contents
1 Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Audley Genus and Ann Thorpe
2 The Role of Design as a Catalyst for Sustainable DIY . . . . . . . . . . 15
Giuseppe Salvia and Tim Cooper
3 The Individual-Practice Framework: A Design Tool for
Understanding Consumer Behaviour. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Laura Piscicelli, Mariale Moreno, Tim Cooper and Tom Fisher
4 From Print to Digital: Textual Technologies and Reading
as a Sociotechnical Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Athena Piterou and Fred Steward
5 Availability Cascades and the Sharing Economy:
A Critique of Sharing Economy Narratives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Sarah Netter
6 Communicating Sustainability: The Case of Slow-Fashion
Micro-organizations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Claudia E. Henninger, Panayiota J. Alevizou, Caroline J. Oates
and Ranis Cheng
7 Steering Sustainable Food Consumption in Japan: Trust,
Relationships, and the Ties that Bind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Steven R. McGreevy and Motoki Akitsu
8 The Potential for Sustainable Production and Consumption
in a Technological Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Anne-Marie Coles
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9 Promoting Sustainable Consumption—a View
from the Ground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Mandy Meikle
10 Conclusion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Audley Genus
Kingston University. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
About the Contributors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
About the Editor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
About this Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Abbreviations
ABC Attitude, Behaviour and Choice model (E. Shove)
ABC Attitude, Behaviour, Context model (P. Stern)
CAD Computer-aided Design
CAP Community Action Plan
CNG Compressed Natural Gas
CSA Community Supported Agriculture
CSR Corporate Social Responsibility
DESIS Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability
DIY Do-it-Yourself
FAO Food and Agriculture Organization
FAQ Frequently Asked Questions
FEASTA Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability
GDP Gross Domestic Product
IEA International Energy Agency
IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
IPPR Institute for Public Policy Research
JAC Japanese Agricultural Cooperative
JOAA Japanese Organic Agriculture Association
MAFF Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (Japan)
MW Megawatt
OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
OSCR Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator
OSE Open Source Ecology
RACE Reach, Act, Convert, Engage
SCIO Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation
SCORAI Sustainable Consumption and Research Action Initiative
SLOC Small, Local, Open and Connected
SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest
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