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Climate change is widely agreed to be one the greatest challenges facing society today. Mitigating and adapting to it is certain to require new ways of living. Thus far efforts to promote less resource-intensive habits and routines have centred on typically limited understandings of individual agency, choice and change. This book shows how much more the social sciences have to offer. The contributors to Sustainable Practices: Social Theory and Climate Change come from different disciplines s

First Author: Shove, Elizabeth; Spurling, Nicola
Attributed to:  Sustainable Practices Research Group funded by ESRC

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Bibliographic Information

Type: Book Chapter

Book Title: Sustainable Practices: Social Theory and Climate Change (2013)

Page Reference: 17-30

ISBN: 978-0-415-54065-0