Infrastructures of Consumption

Part 1, Introduction * Utilities and users * Infrastructures and environmental innovation * Energy, water and waste: Characteristics and dynamics * Themes, questions and methods * Organization of the book * Part 2, Linking Utilities and Users * Green consumption * Resources, services and interdependent practices * Systems of provision and the construction and management of demand * Insights and implications * Part 3, Infrastructural Change and Sustainable Consumption * Modes of network organization and contexts for consumption * Understanding infrastructural change and transition * Infrastructural dynamics and new contexts for consumption * Part 4, Differentiation and Choice in Water, Electricity and Waste Services * Forms of differentiation in utility systems * Captive consumers in differentiated utility markets * Customers in differentiated utility markets * Citizen-consumers in differentiated utility markets * Consumer-providers in differentiated utility markets * Differentiation and consumer choice * Part 5 Shifting Scales and the Co-production of Green Grids * Four dimensions of scale in utility services * Roles and responsibilities of consumers and providers in distributed utility-service provision * Scale and modes of provision * Part 6, Modes of 'Sustainable' Provision * Sustainable housing initiatives * Conceptualizing new socio-technical arrangements * Constructing new socio-technical interdependencies * New modes of provision and the restructuring of demand * Part 7 Restructuring Demand and Efficiency * The development of demand-side management * Demand-side management approaches in The Netherlands and the UK * New ceilings and thresholds of demand * The structuring of demand * Part 8 Systems of Provision and Innovation * 'Green' connectivities * Systems of 'co-provision' * Recognizing connectivities: Implications and challenges *