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Sustainable Consumption - The Implications of Changing Infrastructures of Provision (Hardcover)
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Sustainable Consumption - The Implications of Changing Infrastructures of Provision (Hardcover)
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Sustainable Consumption is unique, not just in its
inter-disciplinary and substantive subject matter (changing
networks of utility consumption and production), but because it
examines empirically the key theoretical debates underpinning the
social sciences at the beginning of the 21st century. This book
shifts the focus of sustainable consumption away from the
individual consumer and their lifestyles, and examines how existing
systems of provision constrain how people consume and how
sustainability is conceived in popular and policy-related
discourses. The authors address a number of relevant and topical
issues including: the relationship between production and
consumption, with a focus on how each sphere configures the other;
the escalation of choice and the emergence of differentiation in
service provision and lifestyle orientation; the constraints on
consumption that are embedded both in systems of provision and in
the collective routines of everyday life; and the differential
capacities of states, public agencies, social movements and
commercial companies to facilitate sustainable consumption. In
tackling these issues, the book advances the sustainable
consumption agenda by highlighting the ways in which
socio-technical and market regulatory arrangements at the systemic
level increase opportunities for the gradual re-orientation of
consumption habits across social groups and over time. This book
offers a comprehensive evaluation of sustainable consumption in the
context of infrastructure provision. The interdisciplinary nature
and rigorous analysis will make it essential reading for scholars,
students and policymakers interested in sustainability, sociology,
culture, consumption patterns and the environment.
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