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There has been a growing awareness that a better understanding of human activities and the behavioural components of environmental problems is needed. This volume brings together psychologists, philosophers, sociologists, environmental economists, lawyers and management experts to identify and examine the rules and motives that govern the environmental behaviour of individuals, households, organizations and society as a whole. Illustrated with case studies from Scandinavia, it shows how behaviours with negative or positive environmental effects are often performed without such consequences in mind. The book discusses how change towards positive environmental behaviour often conflicts with deep-rooted habits and that individual's behavioural change is also greatly determined by whether others also change their behaviour. It explores the importance for environmental practice of different everyday contexts, such as individual's outlook, gender, surrounding physical infrastructure etc and how these various contexts vary between different types of environmental practice. The book also addresses how green identities are formed among consumers, providers or public services (such as electricity and waste) and the private sector (focussing in particular of the oil industry). It emphasises the importance of structural factors in society in shaping long term patterns of environmental behaviour and also presents a historical account of the introduction and expansion of various infrasystems, such as lighting and transportation, showing how they go through phases, interplay with each other and effect settlement patterns, thus making a vast and long-standing impact on society and the environment. By presenting this multi-disciplinary analysis, the volume provides a comprehensive understanding of how behavioural change in relation to the environment can come about and how this can be integrated in the political framework.

Table of Contents:
Contents: Introduction: Perspectives on environmental practice, Anders Biel. Environmental Practice: Individual, Organizational and Societal: Environmental behaviour: changing habits in a social context, Anders Biel; Everyday life contexts and the environment, Mona MÃ¥rtensson and Ronny Pettersson; The formation of green identities - consumers and providers, Anna-Lisa Lindén and Mikael Klintman; Markets, business and sustainable repositioning, Rolf Wolff and Olof Zaring; Legal and governing strategies - towards a law of sustainable development, HÃ¥kan Hydén and Minna Gillberg; Redirecting infrasystems towards sustainability, Arne Kaijser. Commentary: A dialogue concerning the usefulness of the social sciences, Bengt Hansson; Social-ecological resilience and behavioural responses, Carl Folke; Index.

About the Author :
Mona Martensson is Associate Professor at Stockholm University, Sweden. Contributors: Anders Biel, Mona Martensson, Ronny Pettersson, Anna-Lisa Linden, Mikael Klintman, Rolf Wolff, Olof Zaring, Hakan Hyden, Minna Gillberg, Arne Kaijser, Bengt Hansson, Carl Folke.

Review :
'This book brings together recent research from Sweden relevant to promoting pro-environmental behavior. It offers valuable insights about tools for change at all levels of social action from the individual to the nation-state and makes some significant research available for the first time in the English-language literature.' Paul C. Stern, Director, Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change, U.S. National Research Council, USA 'The contributions to this unique multidisciplinary volume clarify how environmentally relevant behaviors - from the individual to the corporate level - are embedded in complex social, cultural and technological systems, making it difficult to modify them via simplistic strategies such as information campaigns requesting voluntary compliance. In the process they offer valuable insights for the development of more effective policies for promoting ecologically sustainable behaviors.' Professor Riley E. Dunlap, Ã…bo Akademi University, Finland 'Anders Biel, Bengt Hansson, and Mona Martensson bring together different perspectives on the "determinants of environmental practice" ... their volume will stimulate the ongoing discussion of the driving forces and the barriers of environmentally responsible behaviour.' Professor Andreas Diekmann, ETH Zurich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology 'A distinguishing feature of this book is that it adopts a truly multi-disciplinary perspective on environmental problems and behavioural change...Thereby, this book brings forth the importance of attending to environmental behaviour at different levels in society: individual or household, organizational and societal.' International Journal of Environment and Pollution '...this book makes clear the development of potential solutions requires an understanding of the individual and structural determinants of environmental practice.' European Spatial Research and Policy


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780754632177
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Height: 219 mm
  • No of Pages: 258
  • Weight: 484 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0754632172
  • Publisher Date: 05 Aug 2003
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Routledge Studies in Environmental Policy and Practice
  • Width: 153 mm


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