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Infrastructures of Consumption

Author : Elizabeth Shove
Publisher : Earthscan
ISBN 13 : 1849771723
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book Infrastructures of Consumption written by Elizabeth Shove and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2012 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Sustainable Consumption

Author : Dale Southerton
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781781958025
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Consumption written by Dale Southerton and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text empirically examines key theoretical debates underpinning the social sciences at the beginning of the 21st century. These include: the relations between production and consumption; and the escalation of choice and the emergence of differentiation in service provision and lifestyle orientation.

Infrastructures of Consumption

Author : Bas van Vliet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9786000002817
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Infrastructures of Consumption written by Bas van Vliet and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Infrastructures in Practice

Author : Elizabeth Shove
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351106155
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Infrastructures in Practice written by Elizabeth Shove and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infrastructures in Practice shows how infrastructures and daily life shape each other. Power grids, roads and broadband make modern lifestyles possible – at the same time, their design and day-to-day operation depends on what people do at home and at work. This volume investigates the entanglement of supply and demand. It explains how standards and 'normal' ways of living have changed over time and how infrastructures have changed with them. Studies of grid expansion and disruption, heating systems, the internet, urban planning and office standards, smart meters and demand management reveal this dynamic interdependence. This is the first book to examine the interdependence between infrastructures and the practices of daily life. It offers an analysis of how new technologies, lifestyles and standards become normalised and fall out of use. It brings together diverse disciplines – history, sociology, science studies – to develop social theories and accounts of how infrastructures and practices constitute each other at different scales and over time. It shows how networks and demands are steered and shaped, and how social and political visions are woven into infrastructures, past, present and future. Original, wide-ranging and theoretically informed, this book puts the many practices of daily life back into the study of infrastructures. The result is a fresh understanding of how resource-intensive forms of consumption and energy demand have come about and what is needed to move towards a more sustainable lower carbon future.

Infrastructures of Consumption: Restructuring the Utility Industries

Author : Bas Van Vliet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781853839955
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (399 download)

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Book Synopsis Infrastructures of Consumption: Restructuring the Utility Industries by : Bas Van Vliet

Download or read book Infrastructures of Consumption: Restructuring the Utility Industries written by Bas Van Vliet and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation * Shows how utilities are being restructured for resource efficiency, to improve environmental performance and for cost savings through consumer, or 'demand side', drivers * Includes coverage of energy, water and waste utilities, providing core information for industry, researchers, students and consumer groups * Draws on case studies from the UK and The Netherlands as examples of the ongoing worldwide environmental transformation of utilities 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. Yet 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 creating contexts for the systemic restructuring of demand.

Sustainable Infrastructure for Cities and Societies

Author : Michael Neuman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000513688
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Infrastructure for Cities and Societies written by Michael Neuman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-31 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central role of infrastructure to cities, and in particular their sustainability, is essential for proper planning and design since most energy and materials are themselves consumed by or through infrastructures. Moreover, infrastructures of all types affect matters of economic and social equity, due to access that they provide or prevent. Sustainable Infrastructure for Cities and Societies shows how fundamental planning, design, finance, and governance principles can be adapted for sustainable infrastructure to provide solutions to make cities significantly more sustainable. By providing a contemporary overview on infrastructure, cities, planning, economies, and sustainability, the book addresses how to plan, design, finance, and manage infrastructure in ways that reduce consumption and harmful impacts while maintaining and improving life quality. It considers the interrelationships between the economic, political, societal, and institutional frameworks, providing an integrative approach including livability and sustainability, principles and practice, and planning and design. It further translates these approaches that professionals, policymakers, and leaders can use. This approach gives the book wide appeal for students, researchers, and practitioners hoping to build a more sustainable world.

Infrastructure

Author : Brett M. Frischmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199333750
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Infrastructure written by Brett M. Frischmann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infrastructure resources are the subject of many contentious public policy debates, including what to do about crumbling roads and bridges, whether and how to protect our natural environment, energy policy, even patent law reform, universal health care, network neutrality regulation and the future of the Internet. Each of these involves a battle to control infrastructure resources, to establish the terms and conditions under which the public receives access, and to determine how the infrastructure and various dependent systems evolve over time. Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources devotes much needed attention to understanding how society benefits from infrastructure resources and how management decisions affect a wide variety of interests. The book links infrastructure, a particular set of resources defined in terms of the manner in which they create value, with commons, a resource management principle by which a resource is shared within a community. The infrastructure commons ideas have broad implications for scholarship and public policy across many fields ranging from traditional infrastructure like roads to environmental economics to intellectual property to Internet policy. Economics has become the methodology of choice for many scholars and policymakers in these areas. The book offers a rigorous economic challenge to the prevailing wisdom, which focuses primarily on problems associated with ensuring adequate supply. The author explores a set of questions that, once asked, seem obvious: what drives the demand side of the equation, and how should demand-side drivers affect public policy? Demand for infrastructure resources involves a range of important considerations that bear on the optimal design of a regime for infrastructure management. The book identifies resource valuation and attendant management problems that recur across many different fields and many different resource types, and it develops a functional economic approach to understanding and analyzing these problems and potential solutions.

Public Infrastructures, Public Consumption, and Welfare in a New-Open-Economy-Macro Model

Author : Giovanni Ganelli
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Book Synopsis Public Infrastructures, Public Consumption, and Welfare in a New-Open-Economy-Macro Model by : Giovanni Ganelli

Download or read book Public Infrastructures, Public Consumption, and Welfare in a New-Open-Economy-Macro Model written by Giovanni Ganelli and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper focuses on the trade-off faced by governments in deciding the allocation of public expenditures between productivity-enhancing public infrastructures and utility-enhancing public consumption. From the modeling point of view, the paper augments a standard New Open Economy Macroeconomics (NOEM) model by introducing productive public infrastructures. The results show that a temporary increase in the domestic stock of public capital financed by a reduction in public consumption reduces domestic welfare in the short run because the temporary gains from higher productivity do not compensate domestic residents for the utility loss due to lower public consumption. If the policy shift is permanent domestic utility is likely to increase, while foreign residents suffer short-run welfare losses but benefit from welfare gains in the long run. This analysis implies that a permanent domestic reallocation of public spending might result in a virtuous global technological cycle.

Social, Health, and Environmental Infrastructures for Economic Growth

Author : Das, Ramesh Chandra
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1522523650
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book Social, Health, and Environmental Infrastructures for Economic Growth written by Das, Ramesh Chandra and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of any contemporary economy is affected by numerous factors. By creating stable infrastructures, countries can more easily thrive in competitive international markets. Social, Health, and Environmental Infrastructures for Economic Growth is a comprehensive source of academic material that examines the impact of infrastructure development on modern economies. Highlighting relevant perspectives on topics such as employment, rural development, and energy production, this is an ideal reference source for researchers, students, professionals, practitioners, and policy makers interested in the social, health, and environmental infrastructures in contemporary economies.

The Consumption Benefits of Investment in Infrastructure

Author : John M. Quigley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book The Consumption Benefits of Investment in Infrastructure written by John M. Quigley and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Consumption Corridors

Author : Doris Fuchs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000389464
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Consumption Corridors written by Doris Fuchs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consumption Corridors: Living a Good Life within Sustainable Limits explores how to enhance peoples’ chances to live a good life in a world of ecological and social limits. Rejecting familiar recitations of problems of ecological decline and planetary boundaries, this compact book instead offers a spirited explication of what everyone desires: a good life. Fundamental concepts of the good life are explained and explored, as are forces that threaten the good life for all. The remedy, says the book’s seven international authors, lies with the concept of consumption corridors, enabled by mechanisms of citizen engagement and deliberative democracy. Across five concise chapters, readers are invited into conversation about how wellbeing can be enriched by social change that joins "needs satisfaction" with consumerist restraint, social justice, and environmental sustainability. In this endeavour, lower limits of consumption that ensure minimal needs satisfaction for all are important, and enjoy ample precedent. But upper limits to consumption, argue the authors, are equally essential, and attainable, especially in those domains where limits enhance rather than undermine essential freedoms. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in the social sciences and humanities, and environmental and sustainability studies, as well as to community activists and the general public.

Co-designing Infrastructures

Author : Sarah Bell
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1800082223
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Co-designing Infrastructures written by Sarah Bell and published by UCL Press. This book was released on with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Co-designing Infrastructures tells the story of a research programme designed to bring the power of engineering and technology into the hands of grassroots community groups, to create bottom-up solutions to global crises. Four projects in London are described in detail, exemplifying community collaboration with engineers, designers and scientists to enact urban change. The projects co-designed solutions to air pollution, housing, the water-energy-food nexus and water management. Rich case-study accounts are underpinned by theories of participation, environmental politics and socio-technical systems. The projects at the heart of the book are grounded in specific settings facing challenges familiar to urban communities throughout the world. This place-based approach to infrastructure is of international relevance as a foundation for urban resilience and sustainability. The authors document the tools used to deliver this work, providing guidance for others who are working to deliver local technical solutions to complex social and environmental problems around the world. This is a book for engineers, designers, community organisers and researchers. Co-authored by researchers, it includes voices of community collaborators, their experiences, frustrations and aspirations. It explores useful theories about infrastructure, engineering and resilience from international academic research, and situates it in community-based co-design experience, to explain why bottom-up approaches are needed and how they might succeed.

The Contributions of Infrastructure to Economic Development

Author : Christine Kessides
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821326282
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book The Contributions of Infrastructure to Economic Development written by Christine Kessides and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper reviews the linkages between infrastructure and economic development based on both formal empirical research and informal case studies. The main thesis is that economic benefits result from investments in infrastructure only to the extent that they generate a sustainable flow of services valued by consumers. Thus, an analysis of infrastructures' contributions to growth must look at the impacts of services as actually perceived, not at indirect indicators that measure only aggregate provision of infrastructure capital. The paper notes that macro and industry level research , although having its limitations, suggest a positive and statistically significant relationship between infrastructure and economic output. However the conclusions derived from this research (most of which derives from developed countries) provide little specific guidance for policy. To gain more practical insights about how infrastructure contributes to economic growth and to improved quality of life, and to understand the welfare costs of inadequate or unreliable infrastructure, it is necessary to look at microeconomic evidence. Particularly interesting illustrations of these relationships are to be found in developing countries where there is wide variance in the availability and quality of infrastructure.

Consumer Participation in Infrastructure Regulation

Author : Elisa Muzzini
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0821363816
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Consumer Participation in Infrastructure Regulation written by Elisa Muzzini and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consumer Participation in Infrastructure Regulation draws on results of a survey questionnaire conducted among 45 infrastructure regulators in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region. It finds that EAP regulators have successfully begun to involve consumers in the regulatory process: consumer representation is a well-established practice in the region; and regulators draw on standard mechanisms to inform consumers, resolve consumer complaints, and solicit consumer input. However, regulators must take further actions to firmly move up the ?ladder of consumer engagement,? from merely providing in.

Network Infrastructures

Author : Rolf Kunneke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108961886
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Network Infrastructures written by Rolf Kunneke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-09 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infrastructures are complex networks dominated by tight interdependencies between technologies and institutions. These networks supply services crucial to modern societies, services that can be provided only if several critical functions are fulfilled. This book proposes a theoretical framework with a set of concepts to analyse rigorously how these critical functions require coordination within the technological dimension as well as within the institutional dimension. It also shows how fundamental the alignment between these two dimensions is. It argues that this alignment operates along different layers characterized successively by the structure, governance and transactions that connect technologies and institutions. These issues of coordination and alignment, at the core of the book, are substantiated through in-depth case studies of networks from the energy, water and wastewater, and transportation sectors.

National Audit Office (NAO) - Cross-Government: Infrastructure Investment: The Impact on Consumer Bills - HC 812-I

Author : Great Britain: National Audit Office
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780102987041
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book National Audit Office (NAO) - Cross-Government: Infrastructure Investment: The Impact on Consumer Bills - HC 812-I written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-11-13 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government and regulators do not know by how much overall expected new investment by the private sector in infrastructure will increase household utility bills and whether bills will be affordable. The National Audit Office has recommended that the Treasury ensure there are mechanisms to assess the cumulative impact of infrastructure investment on consumer bills. This report, which focuses on the energy, water and, to a lesser extent, telecoms sectors, recognizes that the UK requires significant investment in new infrastructure. The Treasury expects that over two-thirds of the £310 billion worth of the planned infrastructure it has identified will be privately financed, owned and operated but paid for by consumers through their utility bills. High levels of expected new investment in infrastructure mean that energy and water bills may rise significantly from current levels. The available projections suggest that increases in both energy and water bills will continue to outstrip inflation, on average, up to 2030. This is particularly concerning, given that energy and water bills have increased significantly in recent years, while incomes have not. The affordability of utility bills can be assessed only in the context of wider pressures on household expenditure, including an understanding of all household bills as well as potential trends in household incomes. There is a range of schemes to support vulnerable consumers but without a fuller understanding of affordability in the round, government and regulators cannot assess the adequacy of these schemes, now or in the future

Infrastructure

Author : Brett M. Frischmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199975507
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Infrastructure written by Brett M. Frischmann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book devotes much needed attention to understanding how society benefits from infrastructure resources and how management decisions affect a wide variety of interests. The book links infrastructure, a particular set of resources, with commons, a resource management principle by which a resource is shared within a community. broad implications for scholarship and public policy across many fields ranging from traditional infrastructure like roads to environmental economics to intellectual property to Internet policy.