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Author Vliet, Bas van.

Title Infrastructures of consumption : environmental innovation in the utility industries / by Bas van Vliet, Heather Chappells and Elizabeth Shove.

Publication Info. London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2005.

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Description 1 online resource (130 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-126) and index.
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Linking utilities and users -- 3. Infrastructural change and sustainable consumption -- 4. Differentiation and choice in water, electricity and waste services -- 5. Shifting scales and the co-production of green grids -- 6. New modes of 'sustainable' provision -- 7. Restructuring demand and efficiency -- 8. Systems of provision and innovation.
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Summary 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 cont.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Infrastructure (Economics) -- Environmental aspects -- Great Britain.
Infrastructure (Economics)
Great Britain.
Infrastructure (Economics) -- Environmental aspects -- Netherlands.
Netherlands.
Technological innovations -- Environmental aspects -- Great Britain.
Technological innovations -- Environmental aspects.
Technological innovations -- Environmental aspects -- Netherlands.
Green technology -- Great Britain.
Green technology.
Green technology -- Netherlands.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Chappells, Heather.
Shove, Elizabeth, 1959-
Other Form: Print version: Vliet, Bas van. Infrastructures of consumption. London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2005 (DLC) 2005003301
ISBN 9781849771726 (electronic book)
1849771723 (electronic book)
1280476001
9781280476006
1853839965
1853839957
9781853839962 (paperback)
9781853839955 (hardback)