Individual upcycling in the UK: Insights for scaling up towards sustainable development

dc.cclicenceN/Aen
dc.contributor.authorSung, Kyungeunen
dc.contributor.authorCooper, Timen
dc.contributor.authorKettley, Sarahen
dc.date.acceptance2016-02-04en
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-18T10:25:34Z
dc.date.available2017-10-18T10:25:34Z
dc.date.issued2017-01-06
dc.descriptionThis work was undertaken in the Sustainable Consumption Research Group at Nottingham Trent University.en
dc.description.abstractCommunity-level innovation or action for sustainability is an important strand for sustainable development. As such, researchers investigated grassroots innovations, community-driven development or bottom-up approach. Many studies have focused on expert-led poverty alleviation projects, market-led social enterprises, or activists-led social movements for sustainable development. Relatively little attention has been paid to rather spontaneous, unorganised, citizen’s collective actions. This paper, therefore, aims to analyse one such example in the UK from the perspective of Design for Sustainable Behaviour; and to suggest how behavioural insights could feed into the development of strategies for scaling up collective actions towards sustainability. The selected action (or behaviour) is individual upcycling—creation or modification of any product from used materials for a product of higher quality or value than the original. Interviews with 23 British residents with practical upcycling experiences were analysed to identify some characteristics in individual upcycling behaviour. The results expand current understanding of individual upcycling in terms of the variance in behaviour, behavioural context and potential group differences based on demographic attributes. The paper further links the analytic insights to the ideas of scaling-up.en
dc.funderEPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)en
dc.identifier.citationSung K., Cooper T., Kettley S. (2017) Individual Upcycling in the UK: Insights for Scaling up Towards Sustainable Development. In: Leal Filho W. (eds) Sustainable Development Research at Universities in the United Kingdom. World Sustainability Series. Cham: Springer.en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47883-8_12
dc.identifier.isbn9783319478821
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2086/14644
dc.language.isoenen
dc.peerreviewedYesen
dc.projectidEP/N022645/1en
dc.publisherSpringeren
dc.researchgroupDesign and New Product Developmenten
dc.researchinstituteInstitute of Art and Designen
dc.subjectsustainable developmenten
dc.subjectsustainable consumptionen
dc.subjectupcyclingen
dc.subjectbehaviouren
dc.subjectpsychologyen
dc.subjectscaling upen
dc.titleIndividual upcycling in the UK: Insights for scaling up towards sustainable developmenten
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