Motivating change - sustainable design and behaviour in the built environment

Publication Year

2013

Document Status

Current

Abstract

Focuses on the collective influences that can be seen to shape behavioural change at various levels from the city to the individual. Examines the underlying dimensions of behaviour change in terms of consumption, media, social innovation and urban systems, from the perspective of a variety of disciplines including architecture, urban design, industrial design and engineering, sociology, psychology, cultural studies, waste management and public policy. Explores the diversity of current approaches to change, and the multiple ways in which behaviour can be understood as an enactment of values and beliefs, standards and habitual practices in daily life, and more broadly in the urban environment.

Document History

Part of the Earthscan Series on Sustainable Design. Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor and Francis Group.

Author

Crocker, R. and Lehmann, S. (eds)

ISBN

9780415829786

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