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1. Comfort in a Lower Carbon Society

   Edited by Elizabeth Shove, Heather Chappells, Loren Lutzenhiser

   Series: Building Research and Information

   Current expectations and standards of comfort are almost certainly unsustainable and new methods and ideas will be required if there is to be any prospect of a significantly lower carbon society. This collection reassesses relationships between people and the multitude of environments they inhabit...

   To Be Published August 15th 2013 by Routledge
2. Comfort in a Lower Carbon Society

   Edited by Elizabeth Shove, Heather Chappells, Loren Lutzenhiser

   Series: Building Research and Information

   Current expectations and standards of comfort are almost certainly unsustainable and new methods and ideas will be required if there is to be any prospect of a significantly lower carbon society. This collection reassesses relationships between people and the multitude of environments they inhabit...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. Sustainable Practices

   Social Theory and Climate Change

   Edited by Elizabeth Shove, Nicola Spurling

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   Climate change is widely agreed to be one the greatest challenges facing society today. Mitigating and adapting to it is certain to require new ways of living. Thus far efforts to promote less resource-intensive habits and routines have centred on typically limited understandings of individual...

   Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge
4. Infrastructures of Consumption

   Environmental Innovation in the Utility Industries

   By Bas Van Vliet, Heather Chappells, Elizabeth Shove

   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...

   Published May 2nd 2005 by Routledge
5. The Sociology of Energy, Buildings and the Environment

   Constructing Knowledge, Designing Practice

   By Simon Guy, Elizabeth Shove

   Bringing the social sciences to the heart of environmental debate, this book demonstrates the relevance of sociological analysis for environmentally critical issues like energy consumption. Focusing on energy efficiency and the built environment, the authors take a critical look at the production...

   Published December 13th 2000 by Routledge