This paper compares household electricity consumption in Denmark and Belgium on the
basis of survey data and national statistics and it shows that there is a higher level of …

Sustainable consumption is an objective attracting growing attention within sustainable
development policy circles, academic research and society more generally. This timely …

Based on empirical data on “green” practices according to household size, this article
questions the role, if any, given to close personal relationships by social practice theories in …

The importance of considering gender aspects in studies on residential energy consumption
has been acknowledged. However, an important topic is still ignored in gender and energy …

This article examines the consequences of farmer-herder conflict and the processes
underlying how authority is sourced, maintained, and lost. It illustrates that farmer-herder …

The focus of the paper is on the individual decision of energy consumers, and it's relation to
sustainable consumption. Consumer behavior is based on individual decisions, but it …

Consumption is a key lever to achieving more sustainable development: unsustainable
consumption patterns are major causes of global environmental deterioration, including the …

The management of mining waste is one of the major environmental problems which are
facing the mining professionals, during their activity and even after the closure of the mine …

Sociological works dealing with change in energy consumption are rather recent and less
numerous than economic studies or researches in social or environmental psychology. This …

The key design strategies that reduce the energy demand of buildings are not present in
most thermal codes in many countries. Therefore, modeling techniques offer an alternative …