Norbert Gestring, Hartwig Heine, Rüdiger Mautz, Hans-Norbert Mayer, Walter Siebel:
Ökologie und urbane Lebensweise. Braunschweig/Wiesbaden 1997 (Vieweg)

It is as easy to say that ecological reorganisation must begin with each individual as it is difficult to follow. There are many reasons for the gap between environmental awareness and action - one major reason is that ecological conversion is associated with behavioural demands that can conflict with central political goals as well as with promises of emancipation of the urban way of life: the goal of social justice, the mission statement of home ownership, the desire for individual autonomy and for relief from work.
This book examines what behavioural demands are associated with ecological measures for residents, what good reasons people have for resisting the ecological conversion that is actually being approved, but also: what interests and ideas about the right way of life the ecological conversion project could tie in with.
Everyone is talking about the need for ecological reorganisation. But there is also resistance, not only because it goes against the current logic of economic growth, but also because the lifestyles we have learned over the past 150 years of industrial urbanisation have to change. How can we reconcile what, according to conventional wisdom, seems incompatible: ecology and the city? <noscript>http://counterstation.de/index.php</noscript