Sustainable Energy Consumption and Society

List of FiguresList of TablesList of AbbreviationsPrefaceAcknowledgments1: Sustainable Consumption And The Public's Room To Maneuver In Energy Use1. Introduction2. The consumer society3. Consumption trajectories in Western Europe4. North-South disparities, Northern consumerist models, and global resource constraints5. The evolving international discourse on sustainable consumption6. Consumption or production: Which is the better focus for addressing environmental problems?7. Room to maneuver in energy use7.1 Northern society's discretion in energy use7.2 Individuals' discretion8. Research questions and challenges in this book2: Targets Of Intervention For Sustainable Consumption1. Introduction2. Efficiencies, patterns, and levels of consumption2.1 Patterns of consumption2.2 Efficiency and dematerialization2.3 Levels of consumption3. An expanded multi-disciplinary analysis of consumption's driving forces and possibilities for intervention3.1 Consumption critiques3.2 Psychological and behavioral treatments3.3 Social treatments3.4 Economic treatments4. Conclusion: Policy syntheses and political implications4.1 Altering consumption: top-down or bottom-up?4.2 Political implications and alternatives3: Energy, Environment, And Society: Knowledge And Risk Communication1. Introduction2. Alternative research approaches and a frame for discussing knowledge in the context of discretionary and non-discretionary energy consumption2.1 Introduction: Two approaches and two constructs2.2 Selected topics in the Energy-Revealing approach and actors' discretionary energy consumption2.3 The Social-Revealing approach and less discretionary influences on energy consumption3. Energy and risk communication3.1 Public communication3.2 Risk communication4. Final comments and furtherapplications4: Field Study With Computer-Aided Interviews1. Introduction2. Experimental hypotheses and user questions3. Software development and modeling3.1 Original version of the Personal ECO2-Calculator3.2

David L. Goldblatt was awarded the 2003 ETH Medal for Outstanding Doctoral Work. He is currently a science and Technology Policy Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.