Household Sustainability: Challenges and Dilemmas in Everyday Life

by Chris Gibson

The authors engage critically, and constructively, with the proposition that households are a key scale of action on climate change. They confront dilemmas of practice and circumstance, and cultural norms of lifestyle and consumerism that are linked to troublesome environmental problems - and question whether they can be easily unsettled. The work also illuminates the informal and often unheralded work by households - frequently the poorest - in reducing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781006202
• ISBN13: 9781781006207
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 256 Pages