A Smarter Choice? Exploring the Behaviour Change Agenda for Environmentally Sustainable Mobility
A Smarter Choice? Exploring the Behaviour Change Agenda for Environmentally Sustainable Mobility
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10.1068/c1201
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2014-02
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S. Barr;J. Prillwitz
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作者：
S. Barr;J. Prillwitz
本文探讨了在各国应对全球气候变化的背景下，个人主义方法对研究和促进环境可持续实践的局限性。本文以英国政府试图通过公民行为转变来促进可持续流动为例，认为过度依赖个人主义方法带来了三大挑战：（1）流动性与社会实践和消费环境错综复杂地交织在一起;（2）（非）可持续流动性的实践与物理环境的结构和组织有关;（3）可持续交通的解决方案是通过狭隘的政治视角来制定的，未能解决应对气候变化所需的潜在社会变革。因此，本文认为，研究人员和政策制定者都需要重新审视有关个人的作用及其与减少交通运输碳排放的潜在社会结构和政治挑战的关系的假设。
This paper explores some of the limitations of individualistic approaches towards the study and promotion of environmentally sustainable practices within the context of efforts by states to tackle global climate change. Using the example of government attempts to promote sustainable mobility through behavioural shifts amongst citizens in the UK, the paper argues that an overreliance on individualistic approaches poses three major challenges through the ways in which: (1) mobility is intricately entwined with social practices and consumption settings; (2) practices of (un)sustainable mobility are related to the structure and organisation of physical environments; and (3) solutions for sustainable mobility are framed through narrow political lenses that fail to address the potential social transformations needed to tackle climate change. Accordingly, the paper argues that both researchers and policy makers need to revisit the assumptions made concerning the role of individuals and their relationship to underlying sociostructural and political challenges for reducing carbon emissions from transport.