Middlemiss Sustainable Consumption

Key Issues
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-317-23981-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 250 Seiten

Reihe: Key Issues in Environment and Sustainability

Sustainable Consumption: Key Issues provides a concise introduction to the field of sustainable consumption, outlining the contribution of the key disciplines in this multi-disciplinary area, and detailing the way in which both the problem and the potential for solutions are understood.

Divided into three parts, the book begins by introducing the concept of sustainable consumption, outlining the environmental impacts of current consumption trends, and placing these impacts in social context. The central section looks at six contrasting explanations of sustainable consumption in the public domain, detailing the stories that are told about why people act in the way they do. This section also explores the theory and evidence around each of these stories, linking them to a range of disciplines and approaches in the social sciences. The final section takes a broader look at the solutions proposed by sustainable consumption scholars and practitioners, outlining the visions of the future that are put forward to counteract damage to environment and society. Each chapter highlights key authors and real-world examples to encourage students to broaden their understanding of the topic and to think critically about how their daily lives intersect with environmental and ethical issues.

Exploring the ways in which critical thinking and an understanding of sustainable consumption can be used in daily life as well as in professional practice, this book is essential reading for students, academics, professionals and policy-makers with an interest in this growing field.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Middlemiss, Lucie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures
Lit of ables
List of boxes
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Part 1: Introducing sustainable consumption

Introduction

Measuring sustainable consumption

Sustainable consumption in social context

Part 2: Explaining sustainable consumption

'People don’t understand'

'People are selfish'

'It’s all about values'

'The personal is political'

'We don’t have a choice'

'Consumption is meaningful!'

Part 3: Visions of the future in sustainable consumption

Production-consumption relations

The solution is collective

Sustainable consumption makes you happy! - co-authored with David Wingate

Revolution or evolution?

Conclusion: building images of the future

Über Autor(innen)

Lucie Middlemiss is Associate Professor in Sustainability, and Co-director of the Sustainability Research Institute, in the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds, UK.