Power And Politics In Sustainable Consumption Research And Practice

Author : Cindy Isenhour
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351677306
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power and Politics in Sustainable Consumption Research and Practice written by Cindy Isenhour and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With growing awareness of environmental deterioration, atmospheric pollution and resource depletion, the last several decades have brought increased attention and scrutiny to global consumption levels. However, there are significant and well documented limitations associated with current efforts to encourage more sustainable consumption patterns, ranging from informational and time constraints to the highly individualizing effect of market-based participation. This volume, featuring essays solicited from experts engaged in sustainable consumption research from around the world, presents empirical and theoretical illustrations of the various means through which politics and power influence (un)sustainable consumption practices, policies and perspectives. With chapters on compelling topics including collective action, behaviour-change and the transition movement, the authors discuss why current efforts have largely failed to meet environmental targets and explore promising directions for research, policy and practice. Featuring contributions that will help the reader open up politics and power in ways that are accessible and productive and bridge the gaps with current approaches to sustainable consumption, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of sustainable consumption and the politics of sustainability.

Author : Cindy Isenhour
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351677314
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power and Politics in Sustainable Consumption Research and Practice written by Cindy Isenhour and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With growing awareness of environmental deterioration, atmospheric pollution and resource depletion, the last several decades have brought increased attention and scrutiny to global consumption levels. However, there are significant and well documented limitations associated with current efforts to encourage more sustainable consumption patterns, ranging from informational and time constraints to the highly individualizing effect of market-based participation. This volume, featuring essays solicited from experts engaged in sustainable consumption research from around the world, presents empirical and theoretical illustrations of the various means through which politics and power influence (un)sustainable consumption practices, policies and perspectives. With chapters on compelling topics including collective action, behaviour-change and the transition movement, the authors discuss why current efforts have largely failed to meet environmental targets and explore promising directions for research, policy and practice. Featuring contributions that will help the reader open up politics and power in ways that are accessible and productive and bridge the gaps with current approaches to sustainable consumption, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of sustainable consumption and the politics of sustainability.

Author : Arve Hansen
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031110692
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Consumption, Sustainability and Everyday Life written by Arve Hansen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book seeks to understand why we consume as we do, how consumption changes, and why we keep consuming more and more, despite the visible damage we are doing to the planet. The chapters cover both the stubbornness of unsustainable consumption patterns in affluent societies and the drivers of rapidly increasing consumption in emerging economies. They focus on consumption patterns with the largest environmental footprints, including energy, housing, and mobility and engage in sophisticated ways with the theoretical frontiers of the field of consumption research, in particular on the ‘practice turn’ that has come to dominate the field in recent decades. This book maps out what we know about consumption, questions what we take for granted, and points us in new directions for better understanding—and changing—unsustainable consumption patterns.

Author : Emilio Padilla Rosa
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 180220041X
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elgar Encyclopedia of Ecological Economics written by Emilio Padilla Rosa and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-06 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With diverse contributions from over 100 authors around the globe, this comprehensive Encyclopedia summarises the developments of ecological economics from the fundamental contributions to the more recent methodological debates in the field. It provides an expansive list of topics including sustainable development, the limits to growth, agroecology, implications of thermodynamic laws for economics, integrated ecologic-economic modelling, valuation of natural resources and services, and renewable and non-renewable resources management. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.

Author : Ashley Colby
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000193802
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Subsistence Agriculture in the US written by Ashley Colby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on ethnography and interviews with subsistence food producers, this book explores the resilience, innovation and creativity taking place in subsistence agriculture in America. To date, researchers interested in alternative food networks have often overlooked the somewhat hidden, unorganized population of household food producers. Subsistence Agriculture in the US fills this gap in the existing literature by examining the lived experiences of people taking part in subsistence food production. Over the course of the book, Colby draws on accounts from a broad and diverse network of people who are hunting, fishing, gardening, keeping livestock and gathering and looks in depth at the way in which these practical actions have transformed their relationship to labor and land. She also explores the broader implications of this pro-environmental activity for social change and sustainable futures. With a combination of rigorous academic investigation and engagement with pressing social issues, this book will be of great interest to scholars of sustainable consumption, environmental sociology and social movements.

Author : Paul Roscoe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108836046
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Consumption, Status, and Sustainability written by Paul Roscoe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses information from across time and culture on the relationships among status competition, consumption, and planetary sustainability.

Author : Masaaki Kurosu
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031604415
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human-Computer Interaction written by Masaaki Kurosu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marta Santos Silva
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040037437
Total Pages : 693 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Private Law and Sustainability written by Marta Santos Silva and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-05 with total page 693 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Private Law and Sustainability reflects on how the law can help tackle the current environmental challenges and make our societies more resilient to future crises. Sustainability has been high on the political agenda since the approval of the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015 and the EU Green Deal in 2019. The Green Agenda aims at making Europe the first climate‐neutral continent by 2050, but humanity persists in an ecological overshoot that puts at risk the survival of species, including that of our own. Drawing together a selection of leading thinkers in the field, this Handbook provides a curated overview of the most recent and relevant discussions for private lawyers related to environmental and sustainability concerns. The authors delve into case study examples from 20 countries in Europe and beyond and discuss a wide range of issues, including new property law and consumer law paradigms, the use of legal tech for promoting sustainable property management, strategies for fighting planned obsolescence, eco‐design, the servitisation economy, advances on corporate climate litigation and mandated green private sludges. Overall, the volume is designed to empower new generations of legal scholars to take an active role in the transition to a more sustainable future. It will also assist policymakers in producing better policy, through pinpointing the main legal issues that need to be addressed and offering a comparative overview of legal solutions and best practices. Divided into six key parts and overseen by a team of internationally recognised expert editors, this Handbook will be an essential resource for students, scholars, private lawyers and policymakers who wish to have a comprehensive, fundamental overview of how environmental sustainability concerns reflect on private law.

Author : Doris Fuchs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000389464
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Consumption Corridors written by Doris Fuchs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consumption Corridors: Living a Good Life within Sustainable Limits explores how to enhance peoples’ chances to live a good life in a world of ecological and social limits. Rejecting familiar recitations of problems of ecological decline and planetary boundaries, this compact book instead offers a spirited explication of what everyone desires: a good life. Fundamental concepts of the good life are explained and explored, as are forces that threaten the good life for all. The remedy, says the book’s seven international authors, lies with the concept of consumption corridors, enabled by mechanisms of citizen engagement and deliberative democracy. Across five concise chapters, readers are invited into conversation about how wellbeing can be enriched by social change that joins "needs satisfaction" with consumerist restraint, social justice, and environmental sustainability. In this endeavour, lower limits of consumption that ensure minimal needs satisfaction for all are important, and enjoy ample precedent. But upper limits to consumption, argue the authors, are equally essential, and attainable, especially in those domains where limits enhance rather than undermine essential freedoms. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in the social sciences and humanities, and environmental and sustainability studies, as well as to community activists and the general public.

Author : Anna R. Davies
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136735046
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Challenging Consumption written by Anna R. Davies and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-16 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainable consumption is a central research topic in academic discourses of sustainable development and global environmental change. Informed by a number of disciplinary perspectives, this book is structured around four key themes in sustainable consumption research: Living, Moving, Dwelling and Futures. The collection successfully balances theoretical insights with grounded case studies, on mobility, heating, washing and eating practices, and concludes by exploring future sustainable consumption research pathways and policy recommendations. Theoretical frameworks are advanced throughout the volume, especially in relation to social practice theory, theories of behavioural change and innovative visioning and backcasting methodologies. This groundbreaking book draws on some conceptual approaches which move beyond the responsibility of the individual consumer to take into account wider social, economic and political structures and processes in order to highlight both possibilities for and challenges to sustainable consumption. This approach enables students and policy-makers alike to easily recognise the applicability of social science theories.