caa a22 4500 469075554 CHVBK 20180323132934.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01271031 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01271031 Day Lincoln Department of Demography, Australian National University, 2601, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia aut Departing from resource-intensive lifestyles: Problems and possibilities in industrialized societies [Elektronische Daten] [Lincoln Day] Any attempt to ensure a sensible response to adverse environmental impacts, or to redirect human behavior along less environmentally deleterious channels, must necessarily clear a formidable array of obstacles. These range from (1) the physical (e.g., road systems and the layouts of towns and cities) through (2) the institutional (e.g., the economic system and the system of social stratification), (3) the ideational (e.g., people's assumptions and priorities about what is acceptable or unacceptable, good or bad, desirable or undesirable), and (4) the demographic to (5) reinforcing experience. Each is in one way or another conducive to the continuation of resource-intensive practices. Yet, countervailing forces do exist, if not to a degree that justifies much optimism, at least to one that justifies cautious hope. These relate to (1) the turnover of both physical stocks and human generations, (2) possibilities that exist for informing people and changing their values, and (3) certain possibilities that the political structure affords for controlling or preventing various types of resource-intensive activity. Human Sciences Press, Inc, 1992 Population and Environment Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press 13/4(1992-06-01), 313-326 0199-0039 13:4<313 1992 13 11111 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01271031 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01271031 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Day Lincoln Department of Demography, Australian National University, 2601, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Population and Environment Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press 13/4(1992-06-01), 313-326 0199-0039 13:4<313 1992 13 11111 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer