Screen LibraryThe Earthscan reader in sustainable consumption
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Earthscan,
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| Publisher Address: | London |
| Publication Dates: | 2006. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xiii, 402 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
1844071642 (pbk.) 9781844071647 (pbk.) 1844071650 (hbk.) 9781844071654 (hbk.) |
| Index Number: | F014 |
| CLC: | F014.5-05 |
| Call Number: | F014.5-05/E129 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [xi]-xiii) and index. Readings in sustainable consumption 1 / Tim Jackson -- Framing sustainable consumption -- Consumption from a human development perspective 27 -- United Nations Development Programme -- Making sense of sustainable consumption 39 / Nick Robins and Sarah Roberts -- Consumption and its externalities : where economy meets ecology 50 / Thomas Princen -- Pursuing more sustainable consumption by analyzing household metabolism in European countries and cities 67 / Henri C. Moll, Klaasjan Noorman, Rixt Kok, Rebecka Engstr··om, Harold Throne-Holst, and Charlotte Clark -- Accounting for sustainable consumption : a review of studies of the environmental impacts of households 88 / Edgar G. Hertwich -- Challenges for sustainable consumption policy 109 / Tim Jackson -- Resisting consumerism -- The dubious rewards of consumption 129 / Alan Durning -- The new commodity fetishism 136 / Fred Hirsch -- False connections 146 / Alex Kotlowitz -- Living more simply 151 / Duane Eljin -- Voluntary simplicity : characterization, select psychological implications and societal consequences 159 / Amitai Etzioni -- Learning Diderot's lesson : stopping the upward creep of desire 178 / Juliet Schor -- Resisting simplicity -- The politics of sustainable consumption : the case of the Netherlands 197 / Susan Martens and Gert Spaargaren -- The poverty of morality 222 / Daniel Miller -- Relative poverty - relative communication 236 / Mary Douglas -- Two alternative economic models of why enough will never be enough 249 / Kjell Arne Brekke and Richard B. Howarth -- The evocative power of things : consumer goods and the preservation of hopes and ideals 263 / Grant McCracken -- Consuming goods and the good of consuming 278 / Colin Campbell -- Reframing sustainable consumption -- Efficiency and consumption : technology and practice 293 / Elizabeth Shove -- Competing discourses of sustainable consumption : does the "rationalization of lifestyles" make sense? 305 / Kersty Hobson -- Ethics of consumption 328 / Laurie Michaelis -- Making ends meet - in the household and on the planet 346 / Karl Dake and Michael Thompson -- The costs and benefits of consuming 357 / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -- Consuming paradise? : towards a social and cultural psychology of sustainable consumption 367 / Tim Jackson. |