Challenging Consumption (eBook, ePUB)

Pathways to a more Sustainable Future
Redaktion: Davies, Anna R.; Rau, Henrike; Fahy, Frances

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Sustainable consumption is a central research topic in academic discourses of sustainable development and global environmental change. Informed by a number of disciplinary perspectives, this book is structured around four key themes in sustainable consumption research: Living, Moving, Dwelling and Futures. The collection successfully balances theoretical insights with grounded case studies, on mobility, heating, washing and eating practices, and concludes by exploring future sustainable consumption research pathways and policy recommendations. Theoretical frameworks are advanced throughout the volume, especially in relation to social practice theory, theories of behavioural change and innovative visioning and backcasting methodologies.

This groundbreaking book draws on some conceptual approaches which move beyond the responsibility of the individual consumer to take into account wider social, economic and political structures and processes in order to highlight both possibilities for and challenges to sustainable consumption. This approach enables students and policy-makers alike to easily recognise the applicability of social science theories.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136735042
• Artikelnr.: 41319584

Autorenporträt

Anna R. Davies is a Professor of Geography in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Frances Fahy is a lecturer in Environmental Geography at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Henrike Rau is a lecturer in Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Anna R. Davies, Frances Fahy and Henrike Rau Part 1: Living
2. Situating Sustainable Consumption in a Policy Context Frances Fahy, Ruth
Doyle, Henrike Rau, Anna R. Davies and Jessica Pape 3. Unpacking the
challenges of researching sustainable consumption and lifestyles Mary Jo
Lavelle and Frances Fahy Part 2: Moving - Part Introduction Henrike Rau 4.
Changing Everday Commuting Practices Barbara Heisserer 5. Consuming
Distance or (all) Consuming Work? The case of Telework Mike Hynes Part
Summary Henrike Rau Part 3: Dwelling - Part Introduction Anna R. Davies 6.
Heating Ruth Doyle 7. Sustainable Washing: Adaptive practices and
connecting with nature Ruth Doyle 8. Eating Anna R. Davies, Laura Devaney
and Jessica Pape Part Summary Anna R. Davies Part 4: Futures 9. Conclusion:
Moving on: Promising pathways to more sustainable futures Henrike Rau, Anna
R. Davies and Frances