Conceptualising Demand: A Distinctive Approach to Consumption and Practice

by Elizabeth Shove, Jenny Rinkinen, Greg Marsden

Book Overview

This book addresses fundamental questions about the very idea of demand: how is it constituted, how does it change and how might it be steered?

Conceptualising Demand focuses on five core propositions: that demand is derived from social practices; that it is made and not simply met; that it is materially embedded and temporally unfolding; and that it is modulated through many forms of policy and governance. In working through these claims,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367465027
• ISBN13: 9780367465025
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.4"