Pub Date : 2022-12-28DOI: 10.1080/15487733.2022.2155439
Ingolfur Blühdorn
{"title":"Recreational experientialism at ‘the abyss’: rethinking the sustainability crisis and experimental politics","authors":"Ingolfur Blühdorn","doi":"10.1080/15487733.2022.2155439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2022.2155439","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35192,"journal":{"name":"Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy","volume":"125 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78512412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-26DOI: 10.1080/15487733.2022.2154986
Petteri Siitonen, S. Honkapuro, S. Annala, A. Wolff
{"title":"Customer perspectives on demand response in Europe: a systematic review and thematic synthesis","authors":"Petteri Siitonen, S. Honkapuro, S. Annala, A. Wolff","doi":"10.1080/15487733.2022.2154986","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2022.2154986","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35192,"journal":{"name":"Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87612628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-24DOI: 10.1080/15487733.2022.2153575
Feisal Rajab Rivai, M. Rohman, B. Sumantri
{"title":"Assessment of social sustainability performance for residential building","authors":"Feisal Rajab Rivai, M. Rohman, B. Sumantri","doi":"10.1080/15487733.2022.2153575","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2022.2153575","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35192,"journal":{"name":"Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88406944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-19DOI: 10.1080/15487733.2022.2152626
R. Kinseng, F. T. Nasdian, D. I. Mardiyaningsih, A. Dharmawan, O. Hospes, E. P. Pramudya, E. I. K. Putri, Rizka Amalia, B. Yulian, Faris Rahmadian
{"title":"Unraveling disputes between Indonesia and the European Union on Indonesian palm oil: from environmental issues to national dignity","authors":"R. Kinseng, F. T. Nasdian, D. I. Mardiyaningsih, A. Dharmawan, O. Hospes, E. P. Pramudya, E. I. K. Putri, Rizka Amalia, B. Yulian, Faris Rahmadian","doi":"10.1080/15487733.2022.2152626","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2022.2152626","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35192,"journal":{"name":"Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85553322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-09DOI: 10.1080/15487733.2022.2082108
Reace Edwards, J. Howe, C. Font-Palma
Abstract Low-carbon hydrogen can assist in addressing the global crisis of climate change by significantly decarbonizing a range of heavy-emitting sectors. In the United Kingdom, hydrogen technologies are at the forefront of the net zero-emission roadmaps of many industrial clusters. However, with impending timeframes linked to emission targets and other decarbonization objectives, it is increasingly important to understand how to accelerate such transitions to hydrogen. There is, to date, a notable gap in the academic literature concerning the acceleration of sustainability transitions. Using the case of the hydrogen agenda in England’s North West region, we explore how the transition to hydrogen can be accelerated and thus begin to contribute toward filling this omission. In doing so, we use data collected through semi-structured interviews and from the public domain to unpack and develop upon an existing framework that emerged from the European Commission funded-project Accelerating and Rescaling Transitions to Sustainability (ARTS). The framework comprises five acceleration mechanisms which local sustainability transition initiatives have adopted. This analysis generates novel findings in relation to why actors in the region have faced difficulties in instrumentalizing as well as the mechanism’s overall importance in acceleration. We use these challenges to inform several recommendations which policy makers could adopt to accelerate the North West’s, and wider UK’s, transition to hydrogen.
{"title":"Accelerating sustainability transitions: the case of the hydrogen agenda in the North West region of England","authors":"Reace Edwards, J. Howe, C. Font-Palma","doi":"10.1080/15487733.2022.2082108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2022.2082108","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Low-carbon hydrogen can assist in addressing the global crisis of climate change by significantly decarbonizing a range of heavy-emitting sectors. In the United Kingdom, hydrogen technologies are at the forefront of the net zero-emission roadmaps of many industrial clusters. However, with impending timeframes linked to emission targets and other decarbonization objectives, it is increasingly important to understand how to accelerate such transitions to hydrogen. There is, to date, a notable gap in the academic literature concerning the acceleration of sustainability transitions. Using the case of the hydrogen agenda in England’s North West region, we explore how the transition to hydrogen can be accelerated and thus begin to contribute toward filling this omission. In doing so, we use data collected through semi-structured interviews and from the public domain to unpack and develop upon an existing framework that emerged from the European Commission funded-project Accelerating and Rescaling Transitions to Sustainability (ARTS). The framework comprises five acceleration mechanisms which local sustainability transition initiatives have adopted. This analysis generates novel findings in relation to why actors in the region have faced difficulties in instrumentalizing as well as the mechanism’s overall importance in acceleration. We use these challenges to inform several recommendations which policy makers could adopt to accelerate the North West’s, and wider UK’s, transition to hydrogen.","PeriodicalId":35192,"journal":{"name":"Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy","volume":"20 1","pages":"428 - 442"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81868239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-09DOI: 10.1080/15487733.2022.2043078
M. Sahakian, Aurianne Stroude, L. Godin, I. Courtin, F. Fahy, D. Fuchs, Justin A. Langlois
Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic that first swept across the world in 2020 led to disruptions in habits and routines—central themes in social practice approaches to consumption. Teaching was also disrupted: the move to online classes forced the development of new modalities of teaching and learning. As a result, a group of social science instructors in a “sustainable consumption” network came together to engage students in a reflexivity exercise through weekly journal entries at four universities located in Switzerland, Germany, and Ireland. The students were invited to document how their everyday practices were changing, and how these reported changes related to “sustainable wellbeing.” Further, they were encouraged to reflect on how notions of the collective were reimagined in light of the uncertain sanitary situation. Our analyses show how individual wellbeing is tied to time and social interactions, which are both structured by spatial arrangements. We also discuss how students situate changes in relation to broader, societal trends, hinting at how “sustainable wellbeing” contrasts with other teleoaffective formations such as economic health. We conclude with a discussion around the implications of the journaling method in relation to other participatory processes toward the normative aim of a good life for all.
{"title":"Reflexivity through practice-informed student journals: how “sustainable wellbeing” relates to teleoaffectivities","authors":"M. Sahakian, Aurianne Stroude, L. Godin, I. Courtin, F. Fahy, D. Fuchs, Justin A. Langlois","doi":"10.1080/15487733.2022.2043078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2022.2043078","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic that first swept across the world in 2020 led to disruptions in habits and routines—central themes in social practice approaches to consumption. Teaching was also disrupted: the move to online classes forced the development of new modalities of teaching and learning. As a result, a group of social science instructors in a “sustainable consumption” network came together to engage students in a reflexivity exercise through weekly journal entries at four universities located in Switzerland, Germany, and Ireland. The students were invited to document how their everyday practices were changing, and how these reported changes related to “sustainable wellbeing.” Further, they were encouraged to reflect on how notions of the collective were reimagined in light of the uncertain sanitary situation. Our analyses show how individual wellbeing is tied to time and social interactions, which are both structured by spatial arrangements. We also discuss how students situate changes in relation to broader, societal trends, hinting at how “sustainable wellbeing” contrasts with other teleoaffective formations such as economic health. We conclude with a discussion around the implications of the journaling method in relation to other participatory processes toward the normative aim of a good life for all.","PeriodicalId":35192,"journal":{"name":"Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy","volume":"24 1","pages":"247 - 262"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83211182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-21DOI: 10.1080/15487733.2022.2143206
F. Laruffa
Abstract This article discusses a dilemma of welfare states in the ecological transition. While the principle of “sustainability” is increasingly accepted, there are very different concrete declinations of it. I identify two broad interpretations of sustainability and corresponding paths of social change. The dominant approach, promoted by governments, businesses, and international organizations focuses on inclusive green growth. It aims to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation and seeks to make the transition to a green economy as socially inclusive as possible. In this context, “enabling” social policies mainly focus on employment promotion. The second approach, mostly embraced by heterodox academics and social movements, involves a deeper social-ecological transformation which attempts to lower the priority of economic growth and employment. Accordingly, the role of capacitating welfare states is to enable all individuals to flourish in a post-productivist society. I argue that while the second approach is normatively superior to the first one, it is also more difficult to realize, generating a dilemma for future-oriented politics.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-18DOI: 10.1080/15487733.2022.2146370
Michael D. Briscoe
Abstract Sellen and Harper’s The Myth of the Paperless Office argued that paper-displacement technologies paradoxically led to a rise in paper consumption. Using data from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, I analyze paper-consumption trends in the twenty years since the publication of this pivotal book. These data show that globally paper consumption has leveled out and that in most regions of the world it has begun to decline, in some cases by large amounts in a relatively short period of time. I suggest that there are two primary reasons for this reversal: improved displacement technologies such as smartphones and mobile Internet and time for people and organizations to adopt these new technologies and behaviors.
{"title":"The paperless office twenty years later: Still a myth?","authors":"Michael D. Briscoe","doi":"10.1080/15487733.2022.2146370","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2022.2146370","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Sellen and Harper’s The Myth of the Paperless Office argued that paper-displacement technologies paradoxically led to a rise in paper consumption. Using data from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, I analyze paper-consumption trends in the twenty years since the publication of this pivotal book. These data show that globally paper consumption has leveled out and that in most regions of the world it has begun to decline, in some cases by large amounts in a relatively short period of time. I suggest that there are two primary reasons for this reversal: improved displacement technologies such as smartphones and mobile Internet and time for people and organizations to adopt these new technologies and behaviors.","PeriodicalId":35192,"journal":{"name":"Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy","volume":"1 1","pages":"837 - 845"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90910169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-31DOI: 10.1080/15487733.2022.2111921
Bence Lukács, M. Antal
Abstract Working time reduction (WTR) is a promising policy to enhance well-being in rich countries and an important topic in discourses on a new social vision. Numerous small-scale WTR trials are either underway or planned in various contexts. Properly measuring changes in working time is necessary to evaluate these trials, but challenges abound. Traditional definitions and measurement methods may not work for fragmented, creative, and location-independent jobs. The primary aim of this article is to review relevant work-time definitions and data-collection methods, discuss their complexities, and summarize the implications for WTR research. We reviewed 243 articles and categorize indicators currently used in the literature by relying on 45 methodological studies to identify the main challenges and potential solutions. We conclude that the most dominant definitions and methods, notably usual weekly hours measured by worker surveys, are losing relevance and credibility in many contexts. With the rise of indicators focused on actual hours and measured by time diaries, work grids, interviews, automatic measurements, and time-sampling, we foresee the emergence of non-comparable, job-specific work-time indicators. We propose a new time-sampling approach to deal with some of the least measurable jobs.
{"title":"The reduction of working time: definitions and measurement methods","authors":"Bence Lukács, M. Antal","doi":"10.1080/15487733.2022.2111921","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2022.2111921","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Working time reduction (WTR) is a promising policy to enhance well-being in rich countries and an important topic in discourses on a new social vision. Numerous small-scale WTR trials are either underway or planned in various contexts. Properly measuring changes in working time is necessary to evaluate these trials, but challenges abound. Traditional definitions and measurement methods may not work for fragmented, creative, and location-independent jobs. The primary aim of this article is to review relevant work-time definitions and data-collection methods, discuss their complexities, and summarize the implications for WTR research. We reviewed 243 articles and categorize indicators currently used in the literature by relying on 45 methodological studies to identify the main challenges and potential solutions. We conclude that the most dominant definitions and methods, notably usual weekly hours measured by worker surveys, are losing relevance and credibility in many contexts. With the rise of indicators focused on actual hours and measured by time diaries, work grids, interviews, automatic measurements, and time-sampling, we foresee the emergence of non-comparable, job-specific work-time indicators. We propose a new time-sampling approach to deal with some of the least measurable jobs.","PeriodicalId":35192,"journal":{"name":"Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy","volume":"18 1","pages":"710 - 730"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86962194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-26DOI: 10.1080/15487733.2022.2127294
Simona Zollet, Julia Siedle, M. Bodenheimer, Steven R. McGreevy, Caroline Boules, Clemens Brauer, Md. Habibur Rahman, Christoph D. D. Rupprecht, J. Schuler
Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted everyday living and social practices, prompting questions of whether more sustainable consumption patterns are emerging and the likelihood of their long-term retention. To examine these questions, we apply a practice-based approach to a quantitative study of COVID-driven practice changes in the domains of food, material consumption, housing, and mobility conducted in four global North countries (Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United States). We discuss the trends emerging from our analysis from a sustainability perspective and address the role of social practice elements – materials, meanings, competences – in the establishment and discontinuation of sustainable consumption practices. Observed sustainability gains in specific practices and domains (such as a decrease in material consumption and more sustainable food practices and diets), may be offset by other practices, particularly a renewed desire for air travel and larger housing. The uptake and lock-in of sustainable practices are driven by a combination of meaning and material-related practice elements such as the alignment with interests and personal values; the availability of labor, energy, or time; and the ability to routinize practices. However, new policies to support emerging lifestyle shifts, as well as the development of businesses catering to and encouraging low-impact practices, may ultimately determine the formation of a more sustainable “new normal.” We also reflect on the strengths and limitations of using quantitative research methods in studies of sustainable consumption informed by social practice theories.
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