Editor: Elizabeth Shove Date: 30 April 2013 Book
Sustainable Practices Research Group
- Start date: 01 July 2010
- End date: 31 January 2014
The consumption behaviour of the populations of the world's richer societies poses a great challenge to the achievement of environmental sustainability. The programme of the Sustainable Practices Group is designed to enhance the social scientific understanding of how habits in areas of everyday consumption form, reproduce and may be changed.
The Programme will deliver a multi-level analysis of three environmentally-sensitive practices - eating, water-use and sheltering. It will also conduct a series of action research interventions in stakeholder organisations. Each empirical research project is strategically oriented towards answering central research questions regarding how habits operate, and what are the macro-, meso- and micro- level drivers of change. An inter-disciplinary programme, it focuses on practices, emphasising the importance of collective understandings, routines and habits, and the material and social circumstances which constrain and facilitate sustainable ways of life. It offers fresh perspectives on policy relevant issues of behaviour change.
The Group operates as a consortium with a hub at Manchester and partners at the Universities of Cardiff, Edinburgh, Essex, Lancaster, Leeds, Newcastle, Queens University Belfast and Salford.
- Outputs (157)
Author: Joseph Murphy Date: 30 April 2013 Journal article
Co-author: Julie Newton Date: 30 April 2013 Journal article
Author: Gordon Walker Date: 18 March 2013 Seminar/workshop
Author: Gordon Walker Date: 14 March 2013 Seminar/workshop
Author: Elizabeth Shove Date: 14 March 2013 Presentation/lecture
Author: Elizabeth Shove Date: 14 March 2013 Seminar/workshop
Speaker: Elizabeth Shove Date: 14 March 2013 Conference paper/presentation
Author: Elizabeth Shove Date: 14 March 2013 Conference paper/presentation
Co-author: Gordon Walker Date: 14 March 2013 Conference paper/presentation
Author: Elizabeth Shove Date: 14 March 2013 Conference paper/presentation
Author: Gordon Walker Date: 14 March 2013 Seminar/workshop
Author: Gordon Walker Date: 14 March 2013 Seminar/workshop
Author: Gordon Walker Date: 14 March 2013 Conference paper/presentation
Co-author: Barbara Brown Wilson Date: 14 March 2013 Seminar/workshop
Co-author: Ben Anderson Date: 12 March 2013 Seminar/workshop
Author: Ben Anderson Date: 12 March 2013 Dissemination / Communication
Author: Alison Browne Date: 12 March 2013 Seminar/workshop
Co-author: Ben Anderson Date: 12 March 2013 Dissemination / Communication
Author: Ben Anderson Date: 12 March 2013 Seminar/workshop
Author: Alison Browne Date: 12 March 2013 Seminar/workshop
Author: Alison Browne Date: 12 March 2013 Seminar/workshop
Author: Alison Browne Date: 12 March 2013 Seminar/workshop
Author: Alison Browne Date: 12 March 2013 Conference paper/presentation
Author: Mark Harvey Date: 27 February 2013 Conference paper/presentation