ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book shows that how behaviours with environmental consequences are embedded in the practice and meaning of everyday life. It addresses how green identities are formed among consumers and providers of public services. The book presents an analysis of sustainable repositioning of industries. It discusses the role of the law in sustainable development. The book presents an historical account of the introduction and expansion of large technological systems, or infrasystems, taking gas lightning and transportation as examples. It also presents the importance of attending to environmental behaviour at different levels in society: individual or household, organizational and societal. The book explains why certain behaviours are rather easily changed while others are more firmly rooted in the individual make-up or in the social structure of society.
