Ritsuko Ozaki
Biographic Data
| ID | 108439 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ritsuko Ozaki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ritsuko |
| FAMILY NAME | Ozaki |
| SIGNATURE | OZAKI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Imperial College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9392-8841 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Community sharing: Sustainable mobility in a post-carbon, depopulating society
This paper examines new initiatives in shared mobility of Kashiwa City, a satellite town outside Tokyo, from the users’ perspective. In Japan, the transport sector accounts for almost 20% of carbon emissions. At the same time, a population decrease has led to a decline in use of public transport, reducing the level of the quality of life of residents who live in rural and remote areas. This makes residents depend on private cars, ending up contri…
Follow the price signal: People’s willingness to shift household practices in a dynamic time-of-use tariff trial in the United Kingdom
Emergent Practices of an Environmental Standard
Recent climate change statistics attribute over a quarter of carbon emissions to residential energy use in the United Kingdom. To address this, a building standard (Code for Sustainable Homes) was introduced to aim to reduce the levels of carbon dioxide emissions and energy consumption. This paper analyzes how such an environmental standard reconfigures the sociotechnological relations and practices of housing professionals that design, construct…
Entangled Practices: Governance, Sustainable Technologies, and Energy Consumption
In this article we provide a timely account of how sustainable technologies become entangled with cultural practices and thus co-evolve, influencing energy consumption. In doing so, we critique the approach current UK policy takes towards energy renewal and carbon reduction. We investigate the effectiveness of the social housing sector’s efforts to implement environmental policy initiatives that use a technology-driven approach. By looking at how…
Commentary
"The Coproduction of "Sustainability: Negotiated Practices and the Prius
Much of the debate on sustainability is predicated on the belief that environmental demands lead to the production of sustainable technologies that induce environmental benefits. This fails to account for the influential ways technologies are used in practice, and the interactions between users and technologies that shape their environmental effects. This article uses the example of how cars and their drivers together accomplish the practice of d…
Adopting and consuming innovations
This paper aims to improve understanding of how innovations are diffused through combining perspectives on the adoption and consumption of innovation. The literature on the adoption of innovation mainly examines issues such as technical functionalities, utility and personality factors. In contrast, research on the consumption of innovation is concerned with the context and meaning of consumer decisions and the values that underlie them. The paper…
Amae and Mardy: A Comparison of Two Emotion Terms
The Japanese term amae , referring to a need to receive affection, is compared to a Midland English dialect word, mardy, meaning soft or spoilt. An interpretative phenomenological analysis conducted within the framework of the componential model of emotion indicates areas of overlap and divergence between these two terms that reflect the attitudes toward dependence within the two cultural contexts. Antecedents are similar, as are some of the elem…
Pro‐environmental products: Marketing influence on consumer purchase decision
Purpose The objective of this paper is to investigate if marketing and branding techniques can help establish green brands and introduce greener patterns of consumption into contemporary lifestyles in the current context where environmentally friendly products are increasingly available. Design/methodology/approach This paper reviews consumer behaviour and advertising to identify how consumers are persuaded to opt for greener products. It reports…
Boundaries and the Meaning of Social Space: A Study of Japanese House Plans
If there was a single best way to design a house to live in, all modern houses would be the same, but they are not: typical modern Japanese houses are not the same as typical modern British ones. As cultural values vary, so do psychological needs; and house form changes accordingly. The basic boundaries in the house are expressions of social classifications which regulate human behaviour, and boundaries are a useful focus when considering the mea…
Building Mass Customised Housing through Innovation in the Production System: Lessons from Japan
In the paper we address the way Japanese housebuilders have developed innovative approaches to supplying highly customised housing. We draw on notions of path dependency to explore the evolution of Japan's large-scale industrialised housing suppliers, the way they have differentiated themselves from local suppliers, and their possible future evolution. We first outline how structural conditions influence the business strategies adopted by housebu…
The `front' and `back' regions of the English house: Changing values and lifestyles
Achieving 'Customer Focus' in Private Housebuilding: Current Practice and Lessons from Other Industries
Driven by government ambitions to improve the quality and cost of new housing, British private sector housebuilders are searching for ways to become more 'customer focused'. However, concepts developed in other manufacturing and service sectors are being transferred into the housebuilding industry without fully understanding their implications. The paper explores the concept of 'customer focus', the ways it is being adopted in UK housebuilding an…
Experiences and Meanings of Dwellings
Housing as a Reflection of Culture: Privatised Living and Privacy in England and Japan
This paper reports data from contemporary England and Japan to see whether, as a number of sociological studies have argued, causal relations exist between cultural values and the physical form of housing. The results provide empirical evidence that increasing privatised living and privacy has an impact on house form (i.e. an increase in the capacity to permit greater privacy in the home). However, the present analysis reveals that, in England, t…
Society and Housing Form: Home-Centredness in England vs. Family-Centredness in Japan
This paper demonstrates some of the ways in which culture affects house form by considering the premise that increased privatised living leads to increased demarcation of private living space. Historical data from England and Japan make it evident that Japanese privatised living was family-centred as compared with English home-centredness, and was reflected in observable differences in the evolution of house forms. While supporting the premise th…
Boundaries and the Meaning of Social Space: A Study of Japanese House Plans
If there was a single best way to design a house to live in, all modern houses would be the same, but they are not: typical modern Japanese houses are not the same as typical modern British ones. As cultural values vary, so do psychological needs; and house form changes accordingly. The basic boundaries in the house are expressions of social classifications which regulate human behaviour, and boundaries are a useful focus when considering the mea…
Achieving 'Customer Focus' in Private Housebuilding: Current Practice and Lessons from Other Industries
Driven by government ambitions to improve the quality and cost of new housing, British private sector housebuilders are searching for ways to become more 'customer focused'. However, concepts developed in other manufacturing and service sectors are being transferred into the housebuilding industry without fully understanding their implications. The paper explores the concept of 'customer focus', the ways it is being adopted in UK housebuilding an…
Follow the price signal: People’s willingness to shift household practices in a dynamic time-of-use tariff trial in the United Kingdom
Housing as a Reflection of Culture: Privatised Living and Privacy in England and Japan
This paper reports data from contemporary England and Japan to see whether, as a number of sociological studies have argued, causal relations exist between cultural values and the physical form of housing. The results provide empirical evidence that increasing privatised living and privacy has an impact on house form (i.e. an increase in the capacity to permit greater privacy in the home). However, the present analysis reveals that, in England, t…
Entangled Practices: Governance, Sustainable Technologies, and Energy Consumption
In this article we provide a timely account of how sustainable technologies become entangled with cultural practices and thus co-evolve, influencing energy consumption. In doing so, we critique the approach current UK policy takes towards energy renewal and carbon reduction. We investigate the effectiveness of the social housing sector’s efforts to implement environmental policy initiatives that use a technology-driven approach. By looking at how…
Experiences and Meanings of Dwellings
Society and Housing Form: Home-Centredness in England vs. Family-Centredness in Japan
This paper demonstrates some of the ways in which culture affects house form by considering the premise that increased privatised living leads to increased demarcation of private living space. Historical data from England and Japan make it evident that Japanese privatised living was family-centred as compared with English home-centredness, and was reflected in observable differences in the evolution of house forms. While supporting the premise th…
Community sharing: Sustainable mobility in a post-carbon, depopulating society
This paper examines new initiatives in shared mobility of Kashiwa City, a satellite town outside Tokyo, from the users’ perspective. In Japan, the transport sector accounts for almost 20% of carbon emissions. At the same time, a population decrease has led to a decline in use of public transport, reducing the level of the quality of life of residents who live in rural and remote areas. This makes residents depend on private cars, ending up contri…
"The Coproduction of "Sustainability: Negotiated Practices and the Prius
Much of the debate on sustainability is predicated on the belief that environmental demands lead to the production of sustainable technologies that induce environmental benefits. This fails to account for the influential ways technologies are used in practice, and the interactions between users and technologies that shape their environmental effects. This article uses the example of how cars and their drivers together accomplish the practice of d…
Building Mass Customised Housing through Innovation in the Production System: Lessons from Japan
In the paper we address the way Japanese housebuilders have developed innovative approaches to supplying highly customised housing. We draw on notions of path dependency to explore the evolution of Japan's large-scale industrialised housing suppliers, the way they have differentiated themselves from local suppliers, and their possible future evolution. We first outline how structural conditions influence the business strategies adopted by housebu…
Emergent Practices of an Environmental Standard
Recent climate change statistics attribute over a quarter of carbon emissions to residential energy use in the United Kingdom. To address this, a building standard (Code for Sustainable Homes) was introduced to aim to reduce the levels of carbon dioxide emissions and energy consumption. This paper analyzes how such an environmental standard reconfigures the sociotechnological relations and practices of housing professionals that design, construct…
Amae and Mardy: A Comparison of Two Emotion Terms
The Japanese term amae , referring to a need to receive affection, is compared to a Midland English dialect word, mardy, meaning soft or spoilt. An interpretative phenomenological analysis conducted within the framework of the componential model of emotion indicates areas of overlap and divergence between these two terms that reflect the attitudes toward dependence within the two cultural contexts. Antecedents are similar, as are some of the elem…
The `front' and `back' regions of the English house: Changing values and lifestyles
Society and Housing Form: Home-Centredness in England vs. Family-Centredness in Japan
This paper demonstrates some of the ways in which culture affects house form by considering the premise that increased privatised living leads to increased demarcation of private living space. Historical data from England and Japan make it evident that Japanese privatised living was family-centred as compared with English home-centredness, and was reflected in observable differences in the evolution of house forms. While supporting the premise th…
Experiences and Meanings of Dwellings
Housing as a Reflection of Culture: Privatised Living and Privacy in England and Japan
This paper reports data from contemporary England and Japan to see whether, as a number of sociological studies have argued, causal relations exist between cultural values and the physical form of housing. The results provide empirical evidence that increasing privatised living and privacy has an impact on house form (i.e. an increase in the capacity to permit greater privacy in the home). However, the present analysis reveals that, in England, t…
The `front' and `back' regions of the English house: Changing values and lifestyles
Achieving 'Customer Focus' in Private Housebuilding: Current Practice and Lessons from Other Industries
Driven by government ambitions to improve the quality and cost of new housing, British private sector housebuilders are searching for ways to become more 'customer focused'. However, concepts developed in other manufacturing and service sectors are being transferred into the housebuilding industry without fully understanding their implications. The paper explores the concept of 'customer focus', the ways it is being adopted in UK housebuilding an…
Building Mass Customised Housing through Innovation in the Production System: Lessons from Japan
In the paper we address the way Japanese housebuilders have developed innovative approaches to supplying highly customised housing. We draw on notions of path dependency to explore the evolution of Japan's large-scale industrialised housing suppliers, the way they have differentiated themselves from local suppliers, and their possible future evolution. We first outline how structural conditions influence the business strategies adopted by housebu…
Boundaries and the Meaning of Social Space: A Study of Japanese House Plans
If there was a single best way to design a house to live in, all modern houses would be the same, but they are not: typical modern Japanese houses are not the same as typical modern British ones. As cultural values vary, so do psychological needs; and house form changes accordingly. The basic boundaries in the house are expressions of social classifications which regulate human behaviour, and boundaries are a useful focus when considering the mea…
Pro‐environmental products: Marketing influence on consumer purchase decision
Purpose The objective of this paper is to investigate if marketing and branding techniques can help establish green brands and introduce greener patterns of consumption into contemporary lifestyles in the current context where environmentally friendly products are increasingly available. Design/methodology/approach This paper reviews consumer behaviour and advertising to identify how consumers are persuaded to opt for greener products. It reports…
Amae and Mardy: A Comparison of Two Emotion Terms
The Japanese term amae , referring to a need to receive affection, is compared to a Midland English dialect word, mardy, meaning soft or spoilt. An interpretative phenomenological analysis conducted within the framework of the componential model of emotion indicates areas of overlap and divergence between these two terms that reflect the attitudes toward dependence within the two cultural contexts. Antecedents are similar, as are some of the elem…
Adopting and consuming innovations
This paper aims to improve understanding of how innovations are diffused through combining perspectives on the adoption and consumption of innovation. The literature on the adoption of innovation mainly examines issues such as technical functionalities, utility and personality factors. In contrast, research on the consumption of innovation is concerned with the context and meaning of consumer decisions and the values that underlie them. The paper…
Commentary
"The Coproduction of "Sustainability: Negotiated Practices and the Prius
Much of the debate on sustainability is predicated on the belief that environmental demands lead to the production of sustainable technologies that induce environmental benefits. This fails to account for the influential ways technologies are used in practice, and the interactions between users and technologies that shape their environmental effects. This article uses the example of how cars and their drivers together accomplish the practice of d…
Entangled Practices: Governance, Sustainable Technologies, and Energy Consumption
In this article we provide a timely account of how sustainable technologies become entangled with cultural practices and thus co-evolve, influencing energy consumption. In doing so, we critique the approach current UK policy takes towards energy renewal and carbon reduction. We investigate the effectiveness of the social housing sector’s efforts to implement environmental policy initiatives that use a technology-driven approach. By looking at how…
Emergent Practices of an Environmental Standard
Recent climate change statistics attribute over a quarter of carbon emissions to residential energy use in the United Kingdom. To address this, a building standard (Code for Sustainable Homes) was introduced to aim to reduce the levels of carbon dioxide emissions and energy consumption. This paper analyzes how such an environmental standard reconfigures the sociotechnological relations and practices of housing professionals that design, construct…
Follow the price signal: People’s willingness to shift household practices in a dynamic time-of-use tariff trial in the United Kingdom
Community sharing: Sustainable mobility in a post-carbon, depopulating society
This paper examines new initiatives in shared mobility of Kashiwa City, a satellite town outside Tokyo, from the users’ perspective. In Japan, the transport sector accounts for almost 20% of carbon emissions. At the same time, a population decrease has led to a decline in use of public transport, reducing the level of the quality of life of residents who live in rural and remote areas. This makes residents depend on private cars, ending up contri…
Business (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Engineering (6 works) · Marketing (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Sustainability (4 works) · Consumption (sociology (3 works)