IIASA RepositoryThe Birth of a "Green" Generation? Generational Dynamics of Resource Consumption PatternsT.BüttnerauthorA.GrublerauthorThe 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.1995RR-96-003. Reprinted from Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 50:113-134 [1995]Monograph

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