The Earthscan reader in sustainable consumption
By: edited by Tim Jackson.
Contributors: Jackson, Tim, 1957-
Publisher: Earthscan
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; Sterling, VA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 402
Subjects: Consumption (Economics) -- Environmental aspects.; Consumption (Economics) -- Moral and ethical aspects.; Voluntary simplicity movement.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [xi]-xiii) and index.
Table of contents: title: Readings in sustainable consumption 1 / Tim Jackson; title: Framing sustainable consumption; title: Consumption from a human development perspective 27; title: United Nations Development Programme; title: Making sense of sustainable consumption 39 / Nick Robins and Sarah Roberts; title: Consumption and its externalities : where economy meets ecology 50 / Thomas Princen; title: Pursuing more sustainable consumption by analyzing household metabolism in European countries and cities 67 / Henri C. Moll, Klaasjan Noorman, Rixt Kok, Rebecka Engström, Harold Throne-Holst, and Charlotte Clark; title: Accounting for sustainable consumption : a review of studies of the environmental impacts of households 88 / Edgar G. Hertwich; title: Challenges for sustainable consumption policy 109 / Tim Jackson; title: Resisting consumerism; title: The dubious rewards of consumption 129 / Alan Durning; title: The new commodity fetishism 136 / Fred Hirsch; title: False connections 146 / Alex Kotlowitz; title: Living more simply 151 / Duane Eljin; title: Voluntary simplicity : characterization, select psychological implications and societal consequences 159 / Amitai Etzioni; title: Learning Diderot's lesson : stopping the upward creep of desire 178 / Juliet Schor.; title: Resisting simplicity; title: The politics of sustainable consumption : the case of the Netherlands 197 / Susan Martens and Gert Spaargaren; title: The poverty of morality 222 / Daniel Miller; title: Relative poverty - relative communication 236 / Mary Douglas; title: Two alternative economic models of why enough will never be enough 249 / Kjell Arne Brekke and Richard B. Howarth; title: The evocative power of things : consumer goods and the preservation of hopes and ideals 263 / Grant McCracken; title: Consuming goods and the good of consuming 278 / Colin Campbell; title: Reframing sustainable consumption; title: Efficiency and consumption : technology and practice 293 / Elizabeth Shove; title: Competing discourses of sustainable consumption : does the "rationalization of lifestyles" make sense? 305 / Kersty Hobson; title: Ethics of consumption 328 / Laurie Michaelis; title: Making ends meet - in the household and on the planet 346 / Karl Dake and Michael Thompson; title: The costs and benefits of consuming 357 / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi; title: Consuming paradise? : towards a social and cultural psychology of sustainable consumption 367 / Tim Jackson.