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The Earthscan reader in sustainable consumption / edited by Tim Jackson

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London Earthscan 2006Description: 402 s. illISBN:
  • 1-84407-164-2 (pbk.)
  • 1-84407-165-0
  • 978-1-84407-164-7 (pbk.)
  • 978-1-84407-165-4
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 339.4/7
Other classification:
  • Qad
  • Dgqa
  • Uh
Online resources:
Contents:
Readings in sustainable consumption 1 / Tim Jackson -- Framing sustainable consumption -- Consumption from a human development perspective 25 -- United Nations Development Programme -- Making sense of sustainable consumption 37 / Nick Robins and Sarah Roberts -- Consumption and its externalities : where economy meets ecology 48 / Thomas Princen -- Pursuing more sustainable consumption by analyzing household metabolism in European countries and cities 65 / Henri C. Moll, Klaasjan Noorman, Rixt Kok, Rebecka Engström, Harold Throne-Hoist, and Charlotte Clark -- Accounting for sustainable consumption : a review of studies of the environmental impacts of households 86 / Edgar G. Hertwich -- Challenges for sustainable consumption policy 107 / Tim Jackson -- Resisting consumerism -- The dubious rewards of consumption 127 / Alan Durning -- The new commodity fetishism 134 / Fred Hirsch -- False connections 144 / Alex Kotlowitz -- The Earthscan reader in sustainable consumption -- Living more simply 149 / Djane Elain -- Voluntary simplicity : characterization, select psychological implications, and societal consequences 157 / Amitai Etzioni -- Learning Diderot's lesson : stopping the upward creep of desire 176 / Juliet Schor -- Resisting simplicity -- The politics of sustainable consumption : the case of the Netherlands 195 / Susan Martens & Gert Spaargaren -- The poverty of morality 220 / Daniel Miller -- Relative poverty -relative communication 234 / Mary Douglas -- Two alternative economic models of why enough will never be enough 247 / Kjell Arne Brekke and Richard B. Howarth -- The evocative power of things consumer goods and the preservation of hopes and ideals 261 / Grant McCracken -- Consuming goods and the good of consuming 276 / Colin Campbell -- Reframing sustainable consumption -- Efficiency and consumption : technology and practice 291 / Elizabeth Shove -- Competing discourses of sustainable consumption : does the "rationalization of lifestyles" make sense?
303 / Kersty Hobson -- Ethics of consumption 327 / 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

S. 392-395: References

S. [397]-402: Index

Readings in sustainable consumption 1 / Tim Jackson -- Framing sustainable consumption -- Consumption from a human development perspective 25 -- United Nations Development Programme -- Making sense of sustainable consumption 37 / Nick Robins and Sarah Roberts -- Consumption and its externalities : where economy meets ecology 48 / Thomas Princen -- Pursuing more sustainable consumption by analyzing household metabolism in European countries and cities 65 / Henri C. Moll, Klaasjan Noorman, Rixt Kok, Rebecka Engström, Harold Throne-Hoist, and Charlotte Clark -- Accounting for sustainable consumption : a review of studies of the environmental impacts of households 86 / Edgar G. Hertwich -- Challenges for sustainable consumption policy 107 / Tim Jackson -- Resisting consumerism -- The dubious rewards of consumption 127 / Alan Durning -- The new commodity fetishism 134 / Fred Hirsch -- False connections 144 / Alex Kotlowitz -- The Earthscan reader in sustainable consumption -- Living more simply 149 / Djane Elain -- Voluntary simplicity : characterization, select psychological implications, and societal consequences 157 / Amitai Etzioni -- Learning Diderot's lesson : stopping the upward creep of desire 176 / Juliet Schor -- Resisting simplicity -- The politics of sustainable consumption : the case of the Netherlands 195 / Susan Martens & Gert Spaargaren -- The poverty of morality 220 / Daniel Miller -- Relative poverty -relative communication 234 / Mary Douglas -- Two alternative economic models of why enough will never be enough 247 / Kjell Arne Brekke and Richard B. Howarth -- The evocative power of things consumer goods and the preservation of hopes and ideals 261 / Grant McCracken -- Consuming goods and the good of consuming 276 / Colin Campbell -- Reframing sustainable consumption -- Efficiency and consumption : technology and practice 291 / Elizabeth Shove -- Competing discourses of sustainable consumption : does the "rationalization of lifestyles" make sense?

303 / Kersty Hobson -- Ethics of consumption 327 / 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

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