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Arve Hansen and Ulrikke Wethal: Emerging Economies and Challenges to Sustainability: Theories, strategies, local realities

Published by Routledge, Studies in Sustainable Development Series

Harold Wilhite: Les effets de l'étau du développement et des pressions environnementales sur le mode de vie des populations des forêts indiennes

Published in Bréda, C., Chaplier, M., Hermesse, J. et E. Piccoli (Eds), Terres (dés)humanisée : Ressourses et Climats. Louvain-la-Neuve: Academia-L’Harmattan s.a.

Harold Wilhite: Insights from social practice and social learning theory for sustainable energy consumption

Published in Flux Volume 96, Issue 2, 2014

Harold Wilhite: 'The Body in Consumption: Perspectives from India' published in A. Ulph and D. Southerton (ed.) 'Sustainable Consumption: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives In Honour of Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta'

Harold Wilhite, Ana Horta, Luísa Schmidt, Françoise Bartiaux: 'Socio-Technical and Cultural Approaches to Energy Consumption: An Introduction'

Published in Nature and Culture, Volume 9, Number 2, Summer 2014, pp. 115-121(7)

Tanja Winther and Hege Westskog: Electricity Consumption: Should There Be a Limit? Implications of People’s Attitudes for the Forming of Sustainable Energy Policies

Published in Consilience- The Journal of Sustainable Development

Harold Wilhite: Sustainability as Social Practice - New Perspectives on the Theory and Polices of Reducing Energy Consumption

In International Handbook of Social and Environmental Change edited by Stewart Lockie, David A. Sonnenfeld, Dana R. Fisher. Publisher: Routledge

Winther, Tanja (2013): "Electricity, Uncertainty and the Good Life: A Comparison of French and Norwegian Household Responses to Policy Appeals for Sustainable Energy" in "Energy and Environment Research"

This paper asks to what extent French and Norwegian households link global warming to their own electricity use. Furthermore, we study people’s rationales for selecting renewable sources and reducing electricity consumption at home.

Wilhite, Harold (2013): "Energy consumption as cultural practice: implications for the theory and policy of sustainable energy use" in "Cultures of Energy: Power, Practices, Technologies"

Wilhite develops a new way of understanding energy sustainability through social practice theory. Wilhite highlights that our habits with regard to cooking technologies, lighting strategies, or transportation can be valued differently and practiced in multiple and varied ways.

Winther, Tanja (2013): "Space, Time, and Socio-material Relationships: Moral Aspects of the Arrival of Electricity in Rural Zanzibar" in "Cultures of Energy: Power, Practices, Technologies"

In this book chapter, Winther examines the social and moral aspects of electricity use in zanzibari homes, highlighting changes in gender and marital relations. She also analyzes the function of electricity in providing improved security in the public sphere, setting the stage for increased engagement in both religious and municipal contexts.