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Environmental Practices and Social Changes
Environmental Practices and Social Changes
Wednesday, 13 July 2016: 16:00-17:30
Location: Hörsaal 50 (Main Building)
RC24 Environment and Society (host committee) Language: English
We are facing serious environmental sustainability problems, such as energy security, resource scarcity, human-induced climate change, and increasing waste. To tackle these issues we have to change the ways in which we live our everyday lives: for example, recycling more, consuming less water, using more ecologically friendly forms of transportation, and adopting measures to make homes and offices more energy-efficient. Sociologists have an important role to play in facilitating environmentally sustainable changes in peoples’ routines.
This session welcomes papers that address questions such as how are pro-environmental practices incorporated into people’s everyday lives, and how can these practices come about and create cultural shifts towards more sustainable lifestyles.
Given the fact that changes are required at every level of our daily activities, the session’s focus on social practices is timely, and it is vital to understand how sociotechnical infrastructures, cultural conventions and norms lock people in particular courses of practices and make it difficult to shift in sustainable ways of life.
Given the Congress theme, analyses sensitive to the differences between the ecologically relevant lifestyles prevalent in wealthy nations and those in developing nations are also appropriate.
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