The structure and regulation of consumption and demand has recently become of great interest to sociologists and economists alike, and at the same time there is growing interest in trying to understand the patterns and drivers of technological innovation. This book brings together a range of...

Intro -- Contents -- Figures and tables -- Series foreword -- Contributors -- 1 Innovation by demand? An introduction - Andrew McMeekin, Ken Green, Mark Tomlinson and Vivien Walsh -- 2 Social mechanisms generating demand: a review and manifesto - Alan Warde -- 3 There's more to the economics of...

Drawing upon ‘transitions theory’ and a typology which produces five types of transitions, we describe and analyse the changes that have taken place in the United Kingdom's energy system over the past several decades in terms of three of these transition pathways, namely reproduction (e.g....

The effects of green purchasing on the environmental performance of firms in a supply chain network are studied, by exploring the activities of the UK hardware retailer B&Q as an example of green purchasing and supply in action.