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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. The Open Access version of this book, available at
http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780367748746, has been made
available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No
Derivatives 4.0 license.
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. The Open Access version of this book, available at
http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780367748746, has been made
available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No
Derivatives 4.0 license.
This book showcases strategic policies for and processes of
societal transformation, which are required to address the
challenge of sustainability. Based on the latest thinking at the
interface of social innovation, sustainable consumption and the
transformation of society, the book provides: in-depth discussions
at the nexus of sustainable consumption, social innovation and
social transformation, highlighting their significance to
sustainability-related policy and practice; detailed case studies
of social innovation in energy, food, housing and policy which
illustrate emerging practice and promising policy, business and
civil society interventions; and critical reflections and
commentaries on the contribution of social innovation to societal
transformation. Bringing together aspiring scholars and leading
thinkers on this topic, this book leads to compelling new insights
for an international audience into the potential of social
innovation for sustainable consumption and the transformation of
society. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of
sustainable consumption, sustainable development, (social)
innovation studies and environmental sociology.
This book showcases strategic policies for and processes of
societal transformation, which are required to address the
challenge of sustainability. Based on the latest thinking at the
interface of social innovation, sustainable consumption and the
transformation of society, the book provides: in-depth discussions
at the nexus of sustainable consumption, social innovation and
social transformation, highlighting their significance to
sustainability-related policy and practice; detailed case studies
of social innovation in energy, food, housing and policy which
illustrate emerging practice and promising policy, business and
civil society interventions; and critical reflections and
commentaries on the contribution of social innovation to societal
transformation. Bringing together aspiring scholars and leading
thinkers on this topic, this book leads to compelling new insights
for an international audience into the potential of social
innovation for sustainable consumption and the transformation of
society. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of
sustainable consumption, sustainable development, (social)
innovation studies and environmental sociology.
Sustainable Production Consumption Systems brings together a set of
designed case studies intended to provide a more in-depth
understanding of challenges and opportunities in bringing knowledge
and actions closer together for the sustainable management of
specific production and consumption systems. The case study
approach enabled researchers to engage directly with some of the
actors involved in the production, consumption or regulation of
specific goods or services and other stakeholders affected by those
processes. Such engagement was particularly worthwhile when it
helped mobilize actors to pursue linking knowledge with action in
ways that improve the prospects for sustainability.
Sustainable Production Consumption Systems brings together a set of
designed case studies intended to provide a more in-depth
understanding of challenges and opportunities in bringing knowledge
and actions closer together for the sustainable management of
specific production and consumption systems. The case study
approach enabled researchers to engage directly with some of the
actors involved in the production, consumption or regulation of
specific goods or services and other stakeholders affected by those
processes. Such engagement was particularly worthwhile when it
helped mobilize actors to pursue linking knowledge with action in
ways that improve the prospects for sustainability.
Achieving sustainable consumption patterns is a crucial step on the
way towards sustainability. However, unsustainable consumption
patterns are still dominating. To advance the debate, this book
develops the concept of Strong Sustainable Consumption Governance.
It defines Strong Sustainable Consumption Governance as governance
that targets consumption levels, especially in affluent countries,
rather than merely hoping for technological solutions that would
allow ongoing economic growth. The book argues that only the
precautionary approach of Strong Sustainable Consumption Governance
offers the potential to actually achieve sustainable development.
Based on a resource consumption approach and the limited
availability of resources - including the existing sink capacity of
the ecosystem - the book also considers their use and distribution
among the Earth's population and examines its contribution to human
well-being. The book debunks the naive assumption of solving the
threats of global warming, resource scarcity or peak oil by the
mere greening of the market and a promotion of sustainable consumer
procurement.
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