Technology and pro-environmental behavior in urban households: how technologies mediate domestic routines

Elena Chernovich ()
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Elena Chernovich: Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge, National Research University Higher School of Economics,

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Abstract: This paper investigates environmental behavior in Russian households by the analysis of 24 in-depth interviews conducted in typical households of the city of Moscow. Using the STS tools such as ‘script’ and ‘moral agency’ it discovers how technologies shape domestic routines and pro-environmental behavior of their users and how the users shape the resource consumption of technological artifacts. Depending on their environmental values and believes three types of residents are identified: committed environmentalists, occasional environmentalists and non-environmentalists. Each of the group of people appeared to have different agencies in relation to their domestic technologies. Technologies also seem to play different role in shaping moral actions of the three categories of residents

Keywords: Human-technology relations; environmentalism; domestic routines (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D19 Q01 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 2013
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Published in WP BRP Series: Science, Technology and Innovation / STI, October 2013, pages 1-24

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