Consuming mobility : : a practice approach to sustainable mobility transitions / / Jorrit O. Nijhuis.

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Place / Publishing House:Wageningen, The Netherlands : : Wageningen Academic Publishers,, 2013.
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Environmental Policy
Physical Description:1 online resource (260 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • ""Table of contents""; ""Preface""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Chapter 1. Introduction""; ""1.1 Are you driving a flex-fuel vehicle?""; ""1.2 Mobility as a complex problem""; ""1.3 The approach of system innovations and transitions""; ""1.3.1 The multi-level perspective""; ""1.3.2 Criticism on the absence of citizen-consumers in the transition perspective""; ""1.4 Models of sustainable consumer behaviour""; ""1.5 A practice approach to sustainable mobility""; ""1.6 Objective and research questions""; ""1.7 Methodology and outline of the book""
  • ""2.4 Innovation and mobility, the role of citizen-consumers in sustainability transitions""""Chapter 3. Analysing mobility as an everyday life consumption routine""; ""3.1 Introduction""; ""3.2 What is this â€?thingâ€? called consumption?""; ""3.2.1 Producer-led versus consumer-led approaches to consumption""; ""3.2.2 The relevance of consumption theories for car mobility""; ""3.3 From conspicuous consumption to social practices""; ""3.3.1 The role of routines in consumption""; ""3.3.2 Contemporary theories of practice""
  • ""4.3.2 Face to face communication""""4.3.3 Advertisements and in-store presentation""; ""4.3.4 Monetarisation""; ""4.3.5 Towards a framework of environmental information flows""; ""4.4 Methodology""; ""4.5 Results 1: an analysis at the consumption junction""; ""4.5.1 The purchasing practice and the role of environmental factors""; ""4.5.2 Assessment of environmental information tools""; ""4.5.3 Mediating environmental information""; ""4.5.4 In-store structuration based on potential provider strategies""; ""4.6 Results 2: an analysis of the Dutch automobile market""
  • ""4.7 Review of the results and lessons for consumer-oriented policies""