A01=Bas Van Vliet
A01=Elizabeth Shove
A01=Heather Chappells
Allerton Park
Author_Bas Van Vliet
Author_Elizabeth Shove
Author_Heather Chappells
Captive Consumers
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co-management of utility systems
composting
Composting Toilets
consumer
Consumer Provider Relations
Consumer Roles
Demand Side Management
distributed infrastructure
DSM Scheme
Dutch Water Companies
Efficiency Devices
Energy Efficient Light Bulbs
environmental policy analysis
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Green Electricity
Green Electricity Schemes
large
Leidsche Rijn
management
Night Store Heaters
Partial Reconfiguration
provider
rainwater
Rainwater System
relations
resource efficiency
socio-technical transitions
Sustainable Building
Sustainable Housing
Sustainable Housing Project
Sustainable Housing Schemes
system
toilets
UK Electricity
UK Water
UK Water Company
UK's Sustainable Development Commission
UK’s Sustainable Development Commission
user-provider interaction
utility governance
waste
Waste Services
Product details
- ISBN 9781853839962
- Weight: 440g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 03 May 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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For many years, a uniform and uncontested picture of utility system organization has endured across Europe. Provider and consumer roles have been largely taken for granted, and consumers have had little choice but to use the infrastructure of the only network provider available. Recent transformations have challenged this model. This book examines the ongoing environmental restructuring of consumption and provision in energy, water and waste systems. In accounting for the distinctive environmental qualities, technical features, and institutional dynamics of utility systems this book challenges contemporary conceptualizations of consumers as the autonomous drivers of environmental change. Instead, utilities and users are positioned as the 'co-managers' of utility systems, and processes of environmental innovation are seen to depend on the systemic restructuring of demand.
Bas van Vliet is Senior Lecturer at the Environmental Policy Group, Social Sciences Group, Wageningen University, The Netherlands. Heather Chappells is Research Associate, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University, UK. Elizabeth Shove is Reader in Sociology, Lancaster University
