Demanding energy : space, time and change /: space, time and change. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Allison Hui, Rosie Day, Gordon Walker.
• Editors: Hui, Allison; Day, Rosie; Walker, Gordon
• Contents: 1. Demanding Energy: An Introduction.- Part 1 - Making Connections.- 2.Demanding Connectivity, Demanding Charging: The Co-production of Mobile Communication Between Electrical and Digital Infrastructures.- 3. Constructing Normality Through Material and Social Lock-in: The Dynamics of Energy Consumption Among Geneva's More Affluent Households.- 4. Understanding Temporariness Beyond the Temporal: Greenfield and Urban Music Festivals and their Energy Use Implications.- Part 2 – Unpacking Meanings.- 5. Towards a 'Meaning'-ful Analysis of the Temporalities of Mobility Practices: Implications for Sustainability.- 6. Being at Home Today: Inhabitance Practices and the Transformation and Blurring of French Domestic Living Spaces.- Part 3 - Situating Agency.- 7. The Car as a Safety-net: Narrative Accounts of the Role of Energy Intensive Transport in Conditions of Housing and Employment Uncertainty.- 8. The Tenuous and Complex Relationship Between Flexible Working Practices and Travel Demand Reduction.- 9. Leisure Travel and the Time of Later Life.- Part 4 - Tracing Trajectories.- 10. Changing Eating Practices in France and Great Britain: Evidence from Time Use Data and Implications for Direct Energy Demand.- 11. Paths, Projects and Careers of Domestic Practice: Exploring Dynamics of Demand over Biographical Time.- 12. Demanding Business Travel: The Evolution of the Timespaces of Business Practice.- Part 5 - Shifting Rhythms.- 13. Demand Side Flexibility and Responsiveness: Moving Demand in Time Through Technology.- 14. Reducing Demand for Energy in Hospitals: Opportunities for and Limits to Temporal Coordination.- Part 6 – Researching Demand.- 15. Identifying Research Strategies and Methodological Priorities for the Study of Demanding Energy.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 333.79; Power resources
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319619910
• Related ISBNs: 9783319619903
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