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Book Review: Household Sustainability: Challenges and Dilemmas in Everyday Life

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posted on 2023-05-26, 09:18 authored by Altmann, E
This article reviews Gibson et al.'s book Household Sustainability: Challenges and Dilemmas in Everyday Life . Issues of sustainability have received an increasing amount of attention over the past decade. However much of the academic discussion around sustainability takes a big picture view. Gibson et al. address both the big picture and the micro level with thought-provoking thoroughness. Centred at the household level this book covers 19 common issues confronting households in their search to live a 'green' lifestyle. Along with the dilemma of sifting through a broad range of often contradictory information our attitudes to the material nature of current lifestyles are questioned. The focus of this book is on the small steps that household's take to reduce their environmental footprint and the dilemmas they face in doing so. What exactly are we willing to give up to be green? Yearly mobile phone and computer upgrades perhaps?"

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Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning

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15

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4

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4

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582-584

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Taylor & Francis

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