| Description |
xiii, 402 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [xi]-xiii) and index. |
| Contents |
Framing sustainable consumption -- Consumption from a human development perspective / United Nations Development Programme -- Making sense of sustainable consumption / Nick Robins and Sarah Roberts -- Consumption and its externalities : where economy meets ecology / Thomas Princen -- Pursuing more sustainable consumption by analyzing household metabolism in European countries and cities / Henri C. Moll, Klaasjan Noorman, Rixt Kok, Rebecka Engstrom, Harold Throne-Holst, and Charlotte Clark -- Accounting for sustainable consumption : a review of studies of the environmental impacts of households / Edgar G. Hertwich -- Challenges for sustainable consumption policy / Tim Jackson -- Resisting consumerism -- Dubious rewards of consumption / Alan Durning -- New commodity fetishism / Fred Hirsch -- False connections / Alex Kotlowitz -- Living more simply / Duane Eljin -- Voluntary simplicity : characterization, select psychological implications and societal consequences / Amitai Etzioni -- Learning Diderot's lesson : stopping the upward creep of desire / Juliet Schor. |
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Resisting simplicity -- Politics of sustainable consumption : the case of the Netherlands / Susan Martens and Gert Spaargaren -- Poverty of morality / Daniel Miller -- Relative poverty : relative communication / Mary Douglas -- Two alternative economic models of why enough will never be enough / Kjell Arne Brekke and Richard B. Howarth -- Evocative power of things : consumer goods and the preservation of hopes and ideals / Grant McCracken -- Consuming goods and the good of consuming / Colin Campbell -- Reframing sustainable consumption -- Efficiency and consumption : technology and practice / Elizabeth Shove -- Competing discourses of sustainable consumption : does the "rationalization of lifestyles" make sense? / Kersty Hobson -- Ethics of consumption / Laurie Michaelis -- Making ends meet : in the household and on the planet / Karl Dake and Michael Thompson -- Costs and benefits of consuming / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -- Consuming paradise? : towards a social and cultural psychology of sustainable consumption / Tim Jackson. |
| Subject |
Consumption (Economics) -- Environmental aspects.
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Consumption (Economics) -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Voluntary simplicity movement.
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| Added Author |
Jackson, Tim, 1957-
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| ISBN |
1844071642 (pbk.) |
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1844071650 (hbk.) |
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9781844071647 (pbk.) |
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9781844071654 (hbk.) |
| Standard No. |
YDXCP 100410578 |
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YDXCP 100410504 |
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