Green Households -

Green Households

Domestic Consumers, the Environment and Sustainability
Buch | Softcover
284 Seiten
1997
Earthscan Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-85383-482-0 (ISBN)
54,85 inkl. MwSt
This study of domestic consumption draws upon empirical research and looks at houses as consumer units in order to examine the entire household metabolism. It shows what would constitute sustainable domestic consumption and how far there is to go to achieve this.
Households are one of the main sources of waste and of other environmental impacts. This is a study of domestic consumption. Drawing on empirical research largely from The Netherlands, it takes households as consumer units and examines the entire household metabolism. This includes the way domestic demand can influence where and how goods and services are produced, resource flows through households, and the differential impacts of different lifestyles. It shows both what would constitute sustainable domestic consumption and how far there is to go to achieve this.

Klaas Jan Noorman is coordinator of the HOMES research programme at the University of Groningen. AJM (Ton) Schoot Uiterkamp has held research positions at Yale and Harvard Universities; he is now professor of environmental sciences at the Centre for Energy and Environmental Studies at the University of Groningen.

Preface * Acknowledgements * Contributors * Household Metabolism and Sustainability: Some Introductory Remarks * Household Metabolism in the Context of Sustainability and Environmental Quality * Analysis of Household Metabolic Flows * Household Energy Requirements * Developments in Household Composition in Europe * Spatial Aspects of Housing * From Household to Urban Metabolism: Ecological Renewal of Neighbourhoods * Household Consumption, Quality of Life, and Environmental Impacts: a Psychological Perspective and Empirical Study * Economics Aspects of Household Metabolism * The Effects of Public Policies on Household Metabolism * Diagnosing and Evaluating Household Metabolism * Index

Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 521 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10 1-85383-482-3 / 1853834823
ISBN-13 978-1-85383-482-0 / 9781853834820
Zustand Neuware
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