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The environmental implications of car-sharing

Plepys, Andrius LU and Arbelaez Velez, Ana Maria LU (2021) p.209-221
Abstract
This chapter focuses on contemporary urban food sharing beyond the everyday experiences of eating together with friends and family. Such food sharing is increasingly facilitated by smart, digital technologies (ICT for brevity) from Apps and platforms to websites and social media, that offer new ways to grow, cook, and eat together as well as exchange food with others. The chapter begins by mapping and interrogating ICT-mediated urban food-sharing initiatives across 100 cities. This is followed by an examination of the rules, tools, skills, and understandings that shape food sharing. This includes the internal rules that initiatives establish for themselves as well as the external rules set out by policy and social norms. It incorporates... (More)
This chapter focuses on contemporary urban food sharing beyond the everyday experiences of eating together with friends and family. Such food sharing is increasingly facilitated by smart, digital technologies (ICT for brevity) from Apps and platforms to websites and social media, that offer new ways to grow, cook, and eat together as well as exchange food with others. The chapter begins by mapping and interrogating ICT-mediated urban food-sharing initiatives across 100 cities. This is followed by an examination of the rules, tools, skills, and understandings that shape food sharing. This includes the internal rules that initiatives establish for themselves as well as the external rules set out by policy and social norms. It incorporates the devices, technologies, and infrastructures that enable food sharing to occur, and the knowledge and capacity to act on that knowledge. Finally, attention is given to assessing the sustainability of the food sharing that results. (Less)
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A Modern Guide to the Urban Sharing Economy
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Sigler, Thomas and Corcoran, Jonathan
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12 pages
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Edward Elgar Publishing
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9781789909555
9781789909562
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10.4337/9781789909562.00023
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Urban Sharing: Sustainability and Institutionalisation Pathways
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English
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  booktitle    = {{A Modern Guide to the Urban Sharing Economy}},
  editor       = {{Sigler, Thomas and Corcoran, Jonathan}},
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  publisher    = {{Edward Elgar Publishing}},
  title        = {{The environmental implications of car-sharing}},
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  doi          = {{10.4337/9781789909562.00023}},
  year         = {{2021}},
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