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The Nature of Sustainable Consumption and How to Achieve it

Rico Defila, Antonietta DiGiulio und Ruth Kaufmann-Hayoz
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Rico Defila, Antonietta DiGiulio, Ruth Kaufmann-Hayoz, The Nature of Sustainable Consumption and How to Achieve it (2012), oekom verlag, München, ISBN: 9783865815330

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Is the online trade with second-hand products changing individual consumer behaviour? What is the sustainability potential of this activity? How can daily energy-consuming routines at the workplace be changed? Do major changes in the course of people†™s lives represent opportunities to modify their consumer behaviour towards greater sustainability? These are only some of the research questions studied in the focal topic »From Knowledge to Action – New Paths towards Sustainable Consumption« which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as part of the »Social-ecological Research Programme« (SÖF). This book gives an insight into the research results of the ten project groups. Their diversity highlights that there is much more to »sustainable consumption« than the simple purchase of organic or fair trade products. In addition, overarching conceptual and normative issues were treated across the project groups of the focal topic. Developed collaboratively and moderated by the accompanying research project, the results of the synthesis process are also presented here, as for example how the sustainability of individual consumer behaviour can be evaluated, or which theories of action are particularly useful for specific consumer behaviour phenomena.
The editors lead the accompanying research project »Focussing knowledge – Encouraging commitment – Facilitating mastery« in the focal topic. They all work at the Interdisciplinary Centre for General Ecology (IKAÖ) at the University of Bern. They have carried out numerous research projects – often of an inter- and transdisciplinary nature – on ecologically responsible actions in the context of sustainable development. They also study issues relating to inter- and transdisciplinarity and moderate the synthesis processes in project groups.

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Rico Defila is an attorney at law and head of the planning and operations department at IKAÖ, Antonietta Di Giulio is a philosopher and university lecturer in general ecology, specialising in general propaedeutics of science (human and natural) and interdisciplinarity. They are joint leaders of the research group Inter-/Transdisciplinarity at IKAÖ.
Ruth Kaufmann-Hayoz is a psychologist and emerita professor of general ecology; until 2011 she was director of IKAÖ.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

  • The Nature of Sustainable Consumption and How to Achieve it
  • Contents
  • Preface - Angelika Zahrn
  • Introduction - Rico Defila, Antonietta Di Giulio, Ruth Kaufmann-Hayoz
  • Part 1. The synthesis framework
  • 1. A landscape of research around sustainability and consumption - Rico Defila, Antonietta Di Giulio, Ruth Kaufmann-Hayoz, Markus Winkelmann
  • 2. Needs and consumption – a conceptual system and its meaning in the context of sustainability - Antonietta Di Giulio, Bettina Brohmann, Jens Clausen, Rico Defila, Doris Fuchs, Ruth Kaufmann-Hayoz, Andreas Koch
  • 3. Sustainable consumption: how to evaluate sustainability in consumption acts - Daniel Fischer, Gerd Michelsen, Birgit Blättel-Mink, Antonietta Di Giulio
  • 4. Theoretical perspectives on consumer behaviour – attempt at establishing an order to the theories - Ruth Kaufmann-Hayoz, Sebastian Bamberg, Rico Defila, Christian Dehmel,Antonietta Di Giulio, Melanie Jaeger-Erben, Ellen Matthies, Georg Sunderer, Stef
  • 5 Societal steering of consumption towards sustainability
  • 6 Using †˜mixed methods†™ in sustainable consumption research: approaches, challenges and added value - Melanie Jaeger-Erben, Martina Schäfer, Dirk Dalichau, Christian Dehmel, Konrad Götz,Daniel Fischer, Andreas Homburg, Marlen Schulz, Stefan Zundel
  • Part 2. Findings from the project groups
  • 1 Motives for and barriers to energy-efficient refurbishment of residential dwellings - Julika Weiß, Immanuel Stieß, Stefan Zundel
  • 2 Determinants and distributional implications in the purchase of energy-efficient household appliances - Joachim Schleich, Bradford F. Mills
  • 3 Life events as windows of opportunity for changing towards sustainable consumption patterns? The change in everyday routines in life-course transitions - Martina Schäfer, Melanie Jaeger-Erben
  • 4 Sustainability-related routines in the workplace – prerequisites for successful change - Ellen Matthies, Dirk Thomas
  • 5 Schools and their "culture of consumption": a context for consumer learning - Matthias Barth, Daniel Fischer, Gerd Michelsen, Horst Rode
  • 6 Household production and electricity consumption – possibilities for energy savings in private households - Konrad Götz, Wolfgang Glatzer, Sebastian Gölz
  • 7 Gender in the focal topic "From Knowledge to Action – New Paths towards Sustainable Consumption": findings and perspectives - Melanie Jaeger-Erben, Ursula Offenberger, Julia Nentwich, Martina Schäfer, Ines Weller1
  • 8 Is "eco-stress" associated with sustainable heat consumption? - Sophia Alcantara, Sandra Wassermann, Marlen Schulz
  • 9 Socio-cultural meanings around heat energy consumption in private households - Ursula Offenberger, Julia Nentwich
  • 10 How open is open innovation? User roles and barriers to implementation - Cordula Kropp, Gerald Beck
  • 11 Changing consumer roles and opportunities for sustainable consumption in online second-hand trading: the case of eBay - Birgit Blättel-Mink, Jens Clausen, Dirk Dalichau
  • 12 Involving users in sustainability innovations - Ulf Schrader, Frank-Martin Belz
  • 13 Impact analysis of heat consumption – user behaviour and the consumption of heat energy - Andreas Koch, Daniel Zech
  • 14 The evaluation of feedback instruments in the context of electricity consumption - Georg Sunderer, Konrad Götz, Sebastian Gölz
  • 15 Achieving and measuring energy savings through behavioural changes: the challenge of measurability in the actual operation of university buildings - Andreas Klesse, Joachim Müller, Ralf-Dieter Person
  • 16 Sustainable electricity consumption in German households – framework conditions for political interventions - Bettina Brohmann, Veit Bürger, Christian Dehmel, Doris Fuchs, Ulrich Hamenstädt, Dörthe Krömker, Volker Schneider, Wilma Mert, Kerstin T
  • 17 Bonus schemes and progressive electricity tariffs as instruments to promote sustainable electricity consumption in private households - Bettina Brohmann, Christian Dehmel, Doris Fuchs, Wilma Mert, Anna Schreuer, Kerstin Tews
  • Appendix
  • Profiles of the project groups
  • Authors

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