Sustainable Energy Consumption and Society Personal, Technological, or Social Change? /

• Main Author: Goldblatt, David L. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Series: Alliance for Global Sustainability Bookseries Science and Technology: Tools for Sustainable Development, 7
• Subjects: Engineering.; Renewable energy resources.; Energy policy.; Energy and state.; Renewable energy sources.; Alternate energy sources.; Green energy industries.; Environment.; Climate change.; Air pollution.; Sociology.; Renewable and Green Energy.; Environment, general.; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution.; Climate Change.; Energy Policy, Economics and Management.; Sociology, general.

Origin of this book In 1998 the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) initiated the 2000 Watt Society, a University-wide research program meant to help Switzerland realize a dramatic reduction in its future energy use. A project within the initiative “Sustainability in the ETH domain,” the 200...

Table of Contents:

• Sustainable Consumption and the Public’s Room to Maneuver in Energy Use
• Targets of Intervention for Sustainable Consumption
• Energy, Environment, and Society
• Field Study with Computer-Aided Interviews
• Achievements, Open Questions, and Lessons Learned.