Putting Sustainability into Practice

Edited by Emily Huddart Kennedy, Washington State University, Maurie J. Cohen, New Jersey Institute of Technology, US and Naomi Krogman, Dean, Faculty of Environment, Simon Fraser University, Canada

• Contents:PART I1. Social Practice Theories and Research on Sustainable ConsumptionEmily Huddart Kennedy, Maurie J. Cohen, and Naomi T. KrogmanPART II SOCIAL MOBILIZATION AND SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION2. Contextualizing Social Practices: Insights into Social ChangeDebbie Kasper3. Environmental Civic Practices: Synthesizing Individual and Collective Sustainable ConsumptionEmily Huddart Kennedy and Tyler Bateman4. Italy’s Solidarity Purchase Groups as ‘Citizenship Labs’Francesca Forno, Cristina Grasseni, and Silvana SignoriPART III COLLECTIVE DIMENSIONS OF HOUSEHOLD PRACTICES5. Beyond Behavior Change: Social Practice Theory and the Search for Sustainable MobilityStewart Barr6. Disentangling Practices, Carriers, and Production-consumption Systems: A Mixed-method Study of (Sustainable) Food ConsumptionJulia Backhaus, Harald Wieser, and René Kemp7. Getting Emotional: Historic and Current Changes in Food Consumption Practices Viewed Through the Lens of Cultural TheoriesMarlyne SahakianPART IV SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION AND SOCIAL INNOVATION8. Researching Transitions to Sustainable Consumption: A Practice Theory Approach to Studying Innovations in ConsumptionMelanie Jaeger-Erben and Jana Rückart-John9. How Policy Frameworks Shape Environmental Practice: Three Cases of Alternative DwellingChelsea Schelly10. ‘Unleashing Local Capital’: Scaling Cooperative Local Investing PracticesMike Gismondi, Juanita Marois, and Danica StraithPART V CONCLUDING REMARKS11. Forging Further into Putting Sustainability into PracticeNaomi T. Krogman, Maurie J. Cohen, and Emily Huddart KennedyIndex

'For too long there has been a huge gap between thinking about sustainability, and actually doing something about it. This outstanding book questions the prevailing ''Norms and Nudge'' approach based on changing people's minds, and shows how practice theory can be used to move towards truly effective social change. This is a big step forward in rethinking the connection between consumerism and the limits of sustainability.'--Richard Wilk, Department of Anthropology, Indiana University'Sustainable consumption has become one of the most dynamic fields in the social sciences. Putting Sustainability Into Practice consistently demonstrates how the social practice approach has become the best alternative to behaviorist and rationalistic theories of social action and to nudge perspectives. It is definitely an insightful volume that should urgently be put into the hands of policy makers!'--Sophie Dubuisson-Quellier, National Center for Scientific Research, Sciences Po, Paris, France'[T]he book is well-written and the theoretical discussions and empirical analyses are strong. The authors provide excellent models to assist the reader and the text is rich withsupporting materials such as summary tables, bar graphs, and flow charts . . . .The book stands as an appropriate supplemental text for advanced undergraduate and graduate sustainability seminars. It would be an appropriate addition to college, university, and personal libraries as it provides the basis of continuing research for those working in the areas of social practice theory and sustainability.'--Michael Hirsch, International Social Science Review