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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 provides a comprehensive study of the notion of
responsibility in environmental governance. It starts with the
observation that, although the rhetoric of responsibility is indeed
all-pervasive in environmental and sustainability-related fields,
decisive political action is still lacking. Governance
architectures increasingly strive to hold different stakeholders
responsible by installing accountability and transparency
mechanisms to manage environmental problems, yet the structural
background conditions affecting these issues continue to generate
unevenly distributed, socially unjust, and ecologically devastating
consequences. Responsibility in Environmental Governance develops
the concept of responsibility as an analytical approach to map and
understand these dynamics and to situate diverse meanings of
responsibility within larger socio-political contexts. It applies
this approach to the study of food waste governance, uncovering a
narrow governance focus on accountability, optimization, and
consumer behavior change strategies, opening up spaces for
organizing more democratic solutions to a truly global problem.
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