Infrastructures of Consumption: Environmental Innovation in the Utility Industries
Year: 2005
Type: book
Abstract: This book examines the ongoing environmental restructuring of consumption and provision in energy, water, and waste systems. In accounting for the distinctive environmental qualities, technical features, and institutional dynamics of utility systems this book challenges contemporary conceptualizations of consumers as the autonomous drivers of environmental change. Instead, utilities and users are positioned as the "co-managers" of utility systems, and processes of environmental innovation are seen to depend on creating contexts for the systemic restructuring of demand
Authors: B.J.M. van Vliet, H. Chappels, Elizabeth Shove
Language: English
Subfield: Global and Planetary Change
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1532956341