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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.
This book is a comprehensive guide on how to teach sustainable
consumption in higher education. Teaching and Learning Sustainable
Consumption: A Guidebook systematizes the themes, objectives and
theories that characterize sustainable consumption as an
educational field. The first part of the book discusses approaches
to teaching and learning sustainable consumption in higher
education, including reflections on how learning occurs, to more
practical considerations like how to set objectives or assess
learning outcomes. The second part of the book is a dive into
inspiring examples of what this looks like in a range of contexts
and towards different aims - involving 57 diverse contributions by
teachers and practitioners. Building on the momentum of a steady
increase in courses addressing sustainable consumption over the
past decade, this guidebook supports innovative approaches to
teaching and learning, while also bringing to the fore conceptual
debates around higher education and sustainability. Overall, this
book will be a seminal resource for educators teaching about
sustainability and consumption. It will help them to navigate the
specifics of sustainable consumption as a field of scholarship, and
design their teaching approaches in a more informed, competent,
creative way.
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 is a comprehensive guide on how to teach sustainable
consumption in higher education. Teaching and Learning Sustainable
Consumption: A Guidebook systematizes the themes, objectives and
theories that characterize sustainable consumption as an
educational field. The first part of the book discusses approaches
to teaching and learning sustainable consumption in higher
education, including reflections on how learning occurs, to more
practical considerations like how to set objectives or assess
learning outcomes. The second part of the book is a dive into
inspiring examples of what this looks like in a range of contexts
and towards different aims - involving 57 diverse contributions by
teachers and practitioners. Building on the momentum of a steady
increase in courses addressing sustainable consumption over the
past decade, this guidebook supports innovative approaches to
teaching and learning, while also bringing to the fore conceptual
debates around higher education and sustainability. Overall, this
book will be a seminal resource for educators teaching about
sustainability and consumption. It will help them to navigate the
specifics of sustainable consumption as a field of scholarship, and
design their teaching approaches in a more informed, competent,
creative way.
Food consumption patterns and practices are rapidly changing in
Asia and the Pacific, and nowhere are these changes more striking
than in urban areas. This book brings together scholars from
anthropology, sociology, environmental studies, tourism,
architecture and development studies to provide a comprehensive
examination of food consumption trends in the cities of Asia and
the Pacific, including household food consumption, eating out and
food waste. The chapters cover different scales of analysis, from
household research to national data, and combine different
methodologies and approaches, from quantifiable data that show how
much people consume to qualitative findings that reveal how and why
consumption takes place in urban settings. Detailed case studies
are included from China, India, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, South
Korea and Vietnam, as well as Hawai'i and Australia. The book makes
a timely contribution to current debates on the challenges and
opportunities for socially just and environmentally sound food
consumption in urbanizing Asia and the Pacific. Chapter 3 of this
book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138120617_oachapter3.pdf
Food consumption patterns and practices are rapidly changing in
Asia and the Pacific, and nowhere are these changes more striking
than in urban areas. This book brings together scholars from
anthropology, sociology, environmental studies, tourism,
architecture and development studies to provide a comprehensive
examination of food consumption trends in the cities of Asia and
the Pacific, including household food consumption, eating out and
food waste. The chapters cover different scales of analysis, from
household research to national data, and combine different
methodologies and approaches, from quantifiable data that show how
much people consume to qualitative findings that reveal how and why
consumption takes place in urban settings. Detailed case studies
are included from China, India, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, South
Korea and Vietnam, as well as Hawai'i and Australia. The book makes
a timely contribution to current debates on the challenges and
opportunities for socially just and environmentally sound food
consumption in urbanizing Asia and the Pacific.
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