Marc Hudson The world will probably not be saved by the outcome of the Paris climate conference. But nevertheless 2016 [...]
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POLICY BRIEFING: Assessing the Long-Now
Victoria Johnson and Frank Boons Within weeks of coming into power, the newly elected Conservative government had binned 9 low-carbon [...]
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ON THE FRONTLINE: Good Communications
Steve Connor Over the course of the last decade the world of marketing, design and public relations has seen a [...]
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Go ask ‘Gladys’: Why gender matters in energy consumption research
Sherilyn MacGregor In spring 2013, amid growing public discontent with energy companies, news broke that British retailer Marks and Spencer [...]
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Let’s Eat Out More! Re-configuring a feminist vision for a sustainable future
Jessica Paddock and Alan Warde The challenges associated with mitigating climate change make us ever more aware of the need [...]
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The Environmental Threat of Small Households: Six Reasons to Think Again
Luke Yates Household sizes are diminishing over most of the world, and the number of people living alone has increased massively [...]
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Struggling for Consumer Competence in Media-Saturated Everyday Life
Margit Keller and Bente Halkier Browsing the news on a smartphone app before dozing off at midnight (even though the [...]
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Why do sustainable transport innovations flourish in some places and not in others?
Mike Hodson and Andrew McMeekin The current organisation of transport systems in the UK, as in many other Western countries, [...]
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Understanding the Diffusion of Low Carbon Systems: Lessons for Policy
Victoria Johnson and Frank Geels In 1979, an Austrian sawmill owner installed the country’s first biomass district heating (BMDH) plant, [...]
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The Rise of Chinese Consumer Society: Emerging challenges and opportunities for sustainable consumption and production
Alison Browne, Leonie Dendler, Zhu Di, and Dunfu Zhang China has rapidly developed a notion of the consumer and of domestic [...]
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