Journal of Socialomics

Dario Padovan

Publications

• Research Article
  Social Practices of Ordinary Consumption: An Introduction to Household Metabolism
  Author(s): Dario Padovan, Fiorenzo Martini and Alessandro K. CeruttiDario Padovan, Fiorenzo Martini and Alessandro K. Cerutti
  
  In recent years, the evaluation of environmental sustainability of consumption practices has gained a central role in European research. Several analytical tools and methodologies are proposed in order to quantify the environmental burden of production and consumption. Such models can be very precise and efficient in the evaluation of energy consumption, emissions and land use, but most of the time; they are unsuitable to catch the social dimension of the investigation. Thus, many of them are unsuitable for investigating at the level of consumption practices. In this article we focus on Household Metabolism, a model that links social and environmental performances in order to perform a systemic investigation of the impact of consumption. Yet, housing metabolism implies not only quantitative aspects of consumption and the merging of different methods of analysis. It engenders some rede.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2167-0358.1000119

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