The Birth of a "Green" Generation? Generational Dynamics of Resource Consumption Patterns

Büttner, T. & Grubler, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7814-4990 (1995). The Birth of a "Green" Generation? Generational Dynamics of Resource Consumption Patterns. IIASA Research Report (Reprint). IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: RR-96-003. Reprinted from Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 50:113-134 [1995]

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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.

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