Infrastructures of Consumption

Infrastructures of Consumption

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Shove, Elizabeth
Taylor & Francis Ltd
EAN: 9781136563027
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For many years, a uniform and uncontested picture of utility system organization has endured across Europe. Provider and consumer roles have been largely taken for granted, and consumers have had little choice but to use the infrastructure of the only network provider available. Recent transformations have challenged this model. 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 the systemic restructuring of demand.
EAN 9781136563027
ISBN 1136563024
Binding Ebook
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication date March 29, 2012
Pages 160
Language English
Country United Kingdom
Authors Chappells, Heather; Shove, Elizabeth; Van Vliet, Bas