Actions by individuals and households to reduce carbon-based energy consumption have the potential to change the picture of U.S. energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions in the near term. To tap this potential, however, energy policies and programs need to replace outmoded assumptions...

Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Consumption as a Problem for Environmental Science -- 2 Toward a Working Definition of Consumption for Environmental Research and Policy -- 3 Tracking the Flows of Energy and Materials -- 4 Examining the Driving Forces -- 5 Strategies for Setting Research...

This paper develops a theory of voluntary provision of a public good in which a household's decision to engage in a form of environmentally friendly behavior is based on the desire to offset another behavior that is environmentally harmful. The model generates predictions about (1) participation...

This paper develops a theory of voluntary provision of a public good in which a household's decision to engage in a form of environmentally friendly behavior is based on the desire to offset another behavior that is environmentally harmful. The model generates predictions about (1) participation...