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Individual Upcycling in the UK: Insights for Scaling up Towards Sustainable Development

verfasst von : Kyungeun Sung, Tim Cooper, Sarah Kettley

Erschienen in: Sustainable Development Research at Universities in the United Kingdom

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Community-level innovation or action for sustainability is an important strand for sustainable development. As such, researchers investigated grassroots innovations, community-driven development or bottom-up approach. Many studies have focused on expert-led poverty alleviation projects, market-led social enterprises, or activists-led social movements for sustainable development. Relatively little attention has been paid to rather spontaneous, unorganised, citizen’s collective actions. This paper, therefore, aims to analyse one such example in the UK from the perspective of Design for Sustainable Behaviour; and to suggest how behavioural insights could feed into the development of strategies for scaling up collective actions towards sustainability. The selected action (or behaviour) is individual upcycling—creation or modification of any product from used materials for a product of higher quality or value than the original. Interviews with 23 British residents with practical upcycling experiences were analysed to identify some characteristics in individual upcycling behaviour. The results expand current understanding of individual upcycling in terms of the variance in behaviour, behavioural context and potential group differences based on demographic attributes. The paper further links the analytic insights to the ideas of scaling-up.

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The term, ‘Maker’, could apply to potentially everyone in the sense that “we are all makers. We are born makers: just watch a child’s fascination with blocks, Lego, etc. It’s not just about workshops, garages and man caves. If you love to cook, you are a kitchen Maker and your stove is your workbench. If you love to plant, you are a garden Maker. Knitting and sewing, scrap-booking, beading, and cross-stitching—all Making.” (Anderson, 2012, p.13).
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Individual Upcycling in the UK: Insights for Scaling up Towards Sustainable Development
verfasst von
Kyungeun Sung
Tim Cooper
Sarah Kettley
Copyright-Jahr
2017
Buch
Sustainable Development Research at Universities in the United Kingdom

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-47882-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-47883-8

Copyright-Jahr: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47883-8_12