Facilitating Low-Carbon Living? A Comparison of Intervention Measures in Different Community-Based Initiatives
| dc.contributor.author | Schäfer, Martina | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hielscher, Sabine | |
| dc.contributor.author | Haas, Willi | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hausknost, Daniel | |
| dc.contributor.author | Leitner, Michaela | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kunze, Iris | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mandl, Sylvia | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-08-09T11:31:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-08-09T11:31:27Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-04-02 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2019-08-01T14:03:49Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | The challenge of facilitating a shift towards sustainable housing, food and mobility has been taken up by diverse community-based initiatives ranging from “top-down” approaches in low-carbon municipalities to “bottom-up” approaches in intentional communities. This paper compares intervention measures in four case study areas belonging to these two types, focusing on their potential of re-configuring daily housing, food, and mobility practices. Taking up critics on dominant intervention framings of diffusing low-carbon technical innovations and changing individual behavior, we draw on social practice theory for the empirical analysis of four case studies. Framing interventions in relation to re-configuring daily practices, the paper reveals differences and weaknesses of current low-carbon measures of community-based initiatives in Germany and Austria. Low-carbon municipalities mainly focus on introducing technologies and offering additional infrastructure and information to promote low-carbon practices. They avoid interfering into residents’ daily lives and do not restrict carbon-intensive practices. In contrast, intentional communities base their interventions on the collective creation of shared visions, decisions, and rules and thus provide social and material structures, which foster everyday low-carbon practices and discourage carbon-intensive ones. The paper discusses the relevance of organizational and governance structures for implementing different types of low-carbon measures and points to opportunities for broadening current policy strategies. | en |
| dc.identifier.eissn | 2071-1050 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://depositonce.tu-berlin.de/handle/11303/9750 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-8783 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en |
| dc.subject.ddc | 333 Boden- und Energiewirtschaft | de |
| dc.subject.other | low-carbon municipalities | en |
| dc.subject.other | intentional communities | en |
| dc.subject.other | ecovillages | en |
| dc.subject.other | social practice theories | en |
| dc.subject.other | interventions in practices | en |
| dc.subject.other | low-carbon measures | en |
| dc.title | Facilitating Low-Carbon Living? A Comparison of Intervention Measures in Different Community-Based Initiatives | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |
| dc.type.version | publishedVersion | en |
| dcterms.bibliographicCitation.articlenumber | 1047 | en |
| dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi | 10.3390/su10041047 | en |
| dcterms.bibliographicCitation.issue | 4 | en |
| dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitle | Sustainability | en |
| dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublishername | MDPI | en |
| dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplace | Basel | en |
| dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume | 10 | en |
| tub.accessrights.dnb | free | en |
| tub.affiliation | Zentrale & sonstige Einrichtungen::Zentrum Technik und Gesellschaft (ZTG) | de |
| tub.affiliation.faculty | Zentrale & sonstige Einrichtungen | de |
| tub.affiliation.group | Zentrum Technik und Gesellschaft (ZTG) | de |
| tub.publisher.universityorinstitution | Technische Universität Berlin | en |