Bringing the circular economy home – Insights from socio-technical perspectives on everyday consumption

IF 3.7 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Cleaner and Responsible Consumption Pub Date : 2023-12-04 DOI:10.1016/j.clrc.2023.100157
Mary Greene , Kersty Hobson , Melanie Jaeger-Erben
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Transitions toward a circular economy require a nuanced understanding of how change plays out in households in relation to the role of consumers and daily consumption practices. However, little policy and research attention has been paid to the complexities of achieving necessary transformations in everyday cultures of consumption and the possible challenges faced by citizens and householders in achieving a circular economy. As a result, we know little about how circular consumption practices are already emerging in everyday life and can be scaled up across society. Additionally, critical gaps in understanding exist concerning how rebound and spillover effects occur in daily practices and the role of social and material contexts in configuring possibilities for circular consumption. Addressing these gaps, we develop an agenda for attending to the social embeddedness and complexity of participating in the circular economy. This agenda includes several critical elements, including the examination of routine and habitual aspects of social life, dynamics of rebound and spillover effects within interconnected practices, and the impact of institutional-material arrangements and provisioning systems on how consumers use services and products in the performance of social practices. In discussing these elements we outline research gaps and recommendations for future CE policy and research that better appreciates the social and material dynamics of everyday life, with the aim of addressing critical scientific and societal knowledge gaps concerning circular consumption transformations.

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将循环经济带回家--从社会技术角度对日常消费的启示
向循环经济的过渡需要对变化如何在家庭中与消费者的角色和日常消费实践的关系中发挥作用有细致的理解。然而,很少有政策和研究注意到在日常消费文化中实现必要转变的复杂性以及公民和家庭在实现循环经济方面可能面临的挑战。因此,我们对循环消费如何在日常生活中出现以及如何在整个社会中推广知之甚少。此外,在了解反弹和溢出效应如何在日常实践中发生以及社会和物质背景在配置循环消费可能性中的作用方面存在重大差距。为了解决这些差距,我们制定了一项议程,以关注参与循环经济的社会嵌入性和复杂性。该议程包括几个关键要素,包括对社会生活的日常和习惯方面的检查,相互关联的实践中反弹和溢出效应的动态,以及制度-物质安排和供应系统对消费者如何在社会实践中使用服务和产品的影响。在讨论这些要素时,我们概述了研究差距,并为未来的CE政策和研究提出建议,以更好地了解日常生活的社会和物质动态,目的是解决有关循环消费转型的关键科学和社会知识差距。
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Cleaner and Responsible Consumption
Cleaner and Responsible Consumption Social Sciences-Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
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