Demanding Energy Space, Time and Change /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Hui, Allison (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Day, Rosie (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Walker, Gordon (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Environmental sociology.; Energy.; Sustainable development.; Environmental policy.; Environmental Sociology.; Energy, general.; Sustainable Development.; Environmental Policy.

This edited collection critically engages with an important but rarely-asked question: what is energy for? This starting point foregrounds the diverse social processes implicated in the making of energy demand and how these change over time to shape the past patterns, present dynamics and future tra...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Demanding Energy: An Introduction
• Part 1 - Making Connections
• 2.Demanding Connectivity, Demanding Charging: The Co-production of Mobile Communication Between Electrical and Digital Infrastructures
• 3. Constructing Normality Through Material and Social Lock-in: The Dynamics of Energy Consumption Among Geneva's More Affluent Households
• 4. Understanding Temporariness Beyond the Temporal: Greenfield and Urban Music Festivals and their Energy Use Implications
• Part 2 - Unpacking Meanings
• 5. Towards a 'Meaning'-ful Analysis of the Temporalities of Mobility Practices: Implications for Sustainability
• 6. Being at Home Today: Inhabitance Practices and the Transformation and Blurring of French Domestic Living Spaces
• Part 3 - Situating Agency
• 7. The Car as a Safety-net: Narrative Accounts of the Role of Energy Intensive Transport in Conditions of Housing and Employment Uncertainty
• 8. The Tenuous and Complex Relationship Between Flexible Working Practices and Travel Demand Reduction
• 9. Leisure Travel and the Time of Later Life
• Part 4 - Tracing Trajectories
• 10. Changing Eating Practices in France and Great Britain: Evidence from Time Use Data and Implications for Direct Energy Demand
• 11. Paths, Projects and Careers of Domestic Practice: Exploring Dynamics of Demand over Biographical Time
• 12. Demanding Business Travel: The Evolution of the Timespaces of Business Practice
• Part 5 - Shifting Rhythms
• 13. Demand Side Flexibility and Responsiveness: Moving Demand in Time Through Technology
• 14. Reducing Demand for Energy in Hospitals: Opportunities for and Limits to Temporal Coordination
• Part 6 - Researching Demand
• 15. Identifying Research Strategies and Methodological Priorities for the Study of Demanding Energy.