A Research Agenda for Sustainable Consumption Governance

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2019
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78811-780-7 (ISBN)

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Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.

Evaluating achievements, challenges and future avenues for research, this book explores how new dimensions of knowledge and practice contest, reshape and advance traditional understandings of sustainable consumption governance. By questioning existing academic discourse and advocating collective solutions, up-and-coming and established scholars help readers to understand diverse governance processes through a wide variety of topics. These range from consumption impacts, the circular and sharing economy, sustainable business models, consumer behaviour and work time, to understanding the role of new actors such as prosumers and city governments. The research agenda supports transformative system changes to a more sustainable society.

Policy makers at international, national and local levels will benefit from the practical advice offered and forward-thinking policy suggestions. It will also be a timely read for scholars of sustainability studies, sociology of consumption, political economy and political ecology, human geography, wellbeing, environment studies and human ecology looking to gain a more well-rounded understanding of the topic.

Edited by Oksana Mont, Professor in Sustainable Consumption Governance, The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE), Lund University, Sweden

Contents:

Part I Introduction
I. Towards a Research Agenda for Sustainable Consumption Governance
Oksana Mont

Part II Pre-conditions for sustainable consumption governance
2. Why only strong sustainable consumption governance will make a difference
Sylvia Lorek and Doris Fuchs

3. Growth strategies and consumption patterns in transition: From Fordism to finance-driven capitalism
Max Koch

4. Quantifying environmental impacts of consumption – Implications for governance
Arnold Tukker

5. Challenges and research needs in evaluating the sustainability impacts of the sharing economy using input-output analysis
Andrius Plepys and Jagdeep Singh

Part III Alternative systems of provisioning and consuming
6. The role of business models for sustainable consumption: A pattern approach
Florian Lüdeke-Freund, Tobias Froese and Stefan Schaltegger

7. An exploration of the significance of prosumption for sustainable consumption and its implications for sustainable consumption governance
Matthias Lehner

8. Putting the sharing economy into perspective
Koen Frenken and Juliet Schor

Part IV Policies and alternative governors of sustainable consumption
9. It is never too late to give up, or is it? Revisiting policies for sustainable consumption
Carl Dalhammar

10. Editing out unsustainability from consumption: From information provision to nudging and social practice theory
Eva Heiskanen and Senja Laakso

11. The role of local governments in governing sustainable consumption and sharing cities
Jenny Palm, Nora Smedby and Kes McCormick

12. From worktime reduction to a post-work future: Implications for sustainable consumption governance
Maurie J. Cohen

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Erscheinungsdatum	16.10.2019
Reihe/Serie	Elgar Research Agendas
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	1-78811-780-8 / 1788117808
ISBN-13	978-1-78811-780-7 / 9781788117807
Zustand	Neuware