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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.
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.
This volume addresses current concerns about the climate and
environmental sustainability by exploring one of the key drivers of
contemporary environmental problems: the role of status competition
in generating what we consume, and what we throw away, to the
detriment of the planet. Across time and space, humans have pursued
social status in many different ways - through ritual purity,
singing or dancing, child-bearing, bodily deformation, even
headhunting. In many of the world's most consumptive societies,
however, consumption has become closely tied to how individuals
build and communicate status. Given this tight link, people will be
reluctant to reduce consumption levels - and environmental impact
-- and forego their ability to communicate or improve their social
standing. Drawing on cross-cultural and archaeological evidence,
this book asks how a stronger understanding of the links between
status and consumption across time, space, and culture might bend
the curve towards a more sustainable future.
Cities play a pivotal but paradoxical role in the future of our
planet. As world leaders and citizens grapple with the consequences
of growth, pollution, climate change, and waste, urban
sustainability has become a ubiquitous catchphrase and a beacon of
hope. Yet, we know little about how the concept is implemented in
daily life particularly with regard to questions of social justice
and equity. This volume provides a unique and vital contribution to
ongoing conversations about urban sustainability by looking beyond
the promises, propaganda, and policies associated with the concept
in order to explore both its mythic meanings and the practical
implications in a variety of everyday contexts. The authors present
ethnographic studies from cities in eleven countries and six
continents. Each chapter highlights the universalized assumptions
underlying interpretations of sustainability while elucidating the
diverse and contradictory ways in which people understand,
incorporate, advocate for, and reject sustainability in the course
of their daily lives."
Cities play a pivotal but paradoxical role in the future of our
planet. As world leaders and citizens grapple with the consequences
of growth, pollution, climate change, and waste, urban
sustainability has become a ubiquitous catchphrase and a beacon of
hope. Yet, we know little about how the concept is implemented in
daily life particularly with regard to questions of social justice
and equity. This volume provides a unique and vital contribution to
ongoing conversations about urban sustainability by looking beyond
the promises, propaganda, and policies associated with the concept
in order to explore both its mythic meanings and the practical
implications in a variety of everyday contexts. The authors present
ethnographic studies from cities in eleven countries and six
continents. Each chapter highlights the universalized assumptions
underlying interpretations of sustainability while elucidating the
diverse and contradictory ways in which people understand,
incorporate, advocate for, and reject sustainability in the course
of their daily lives."
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