@techreport{iiasa4462, volume = {50}, address = {IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria}, title = {The Birth of a "Green" Generation? Generational Dynamics of Resource Consumption Patterns}, type = {IIASA Research Report (Reprint)}, publisher = {RR-96-003. Reprinted from Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 50:113-134 [1995]}, journal = {Technological Forecasting and Social Change}, pages = {113--134}, year = {1995}, url = {https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/4462/}, abstract = {The article discusses a generational perspective on changes in lifestyles and consumption patterns that complement more traditional approaches of heterogeneity and path dependency of human behavior. An application is given, in developing a model of cohort and gender-specific diffusion of technological artifacts, applied to the case of car ownership in Germany. The article concludes with a number of research questions to address the complexities of changes in human behavior from an interdisciplinary perspective.}, author = {B{\"u}ttner, T. and Grubler, A.} }