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Title Environmental Policy and Household Behaviour : Sustainability and Everyday Life
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (273 pages)
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures, Tables and Boxes; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; 1 Environmental Policy and Household Behaviour: An Introduction to the Volume; PART I: ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND THE HOUSEHOLD: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES; 2 The Swedish Environmental Norm. Balancing Environmental Obligations and the Pursuit of Individual Lifestyles; 3 Dealing with Environmental Responsibilities. Living Everyday Life as Political Participation; 4 Sticks, Carrots and Legitimate Policies -- Effectiveness and Acceptance in Environmental Public Policy
5 Barriers and Facilitators for Pro-environmental BehaviourPART II: EMPIRICAL ANALYSES OF THE SWEDISH CASE; 6 Walk the Talk for Sustainable Everyday Life: Experiences from Eco-village Living in Sweden; 7 Policy-driven Socio-technical Structures and Swedish Households' Consumption of Housing and Transport since the 1950s; 8 Shared or individual responsibility: Eco-labelling and Consumer Choice in Sweden; 9 Household Recycling and the Influence of Norms and Convenience; 10 Driving Forces and Constraints to Sustainable Household Travel Behaviour; PART III: CONCLUDING PART
Summary Our behaviour in our own homes - our recycling habits, consumer choices and transport preferences - all have a huge impact on the environment locally and globally. Governments across the world are trying to formulate and implement policies to encourage and enforce more sustainable household actions. Yet so often these policies fail to have the desired effects because of a lack of understanding of the complex interplay of policy and individual behaviour. This book examines this interplay, looking at the role of values, attitudes and constraints in the links between policy and changing behaviour
Notes 11 Addressing Environmental Concern at the Household Level: Concluding RemarksIndex
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Subject Environmental policy.
Environmental policy -- Citizen participation.
Sustainable living.
Household ecology.
Environmental policy -- Sweden -- Case studies
Environmental policy -- Sweden -- Citizen participation -- Case studies
environmental policy.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
Environmental policy
Environmental policy -- Citizen participation
Household ecology
Sustainable living
Sweden
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Söderholm, Patrik, 1968-
ISBN 9781134040063
1134040067