Consumption Challenged

Author : Bente Halkier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317161080

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Consumption Challenged by Bente Halkier Pdf

In public debates, communication campaigns and public policies, it is increasingly common to attribute to consumers and their agency an ability to help solve a broad array of societal problems. This tendency is particularly clear in the field of food consumption, owing to the fact that food is both materially and symbolically central for consumers in everyday life as well as for large scale institutionalized dynamics. In order to shed light on the challenges facing food consumption, this volume takes an innovative theoretical approach, presenting four empirical Danish case studies which are compared with other analyses drawn from the wider international context. Consumption Challenged will appeal not only to sociologists of consumption, risk and the environment, but also to policy makers and researchers in the fields of geography, communication, media, governance and social psychology.

Author : Anna R. Davies,Frances Fahy,Henrike Rau
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136734908

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Challenging Consumption by Anna R. Davies,Frances Fahy,Henrike Rau Pdf

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.

Author : Jennifer Moore Bernstein,Robert O. Vos
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781789730999

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SDG12 - Sustainable Consumption and Production by Jennifer Moore Bernstein,Robert O. Vos Pdf

This book takes a wide-ranging and non-dogmatic view of SDG12, tackling various approaches as to how production and consumption can provide for human well-being while minimizing destructive effects on the biophysical environment.

Author : Ciaramitaro, Barbara L.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781613501511

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Mobile Technology Consumption: Opportunities and Challenges by Ciaramitaro, Barbara L. Pdf

Whether used for communication, entertainment, socio-economic growth, crowd-sourcing social and political events, monitoring vital signs in patients, helping to drive vehicles, or delivering education, mobile technology has been transformed from a mode to a medium. Mobile Technology Consumption: Opportunities and Challenges explores essential questions related to the cost, benefit, individual and social impact, and security risks associated with the rapid consumption of mobile technology. This book presents the current state of mobile technologies and their use in various domains including education, healthcare, government, entertainment, and emerging economic sectors.

Author : Milo Perkins,Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Consumption (Economics)
ISBN : MINN:30000010211906

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The Challenge of Under-consumption by Milo Perkins,Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation Pdf

Author : Rob Hengeveld
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780226326993

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Wasted World by Rob Hengeveld Pdf

Discusses resource consumption, population growth, and waste in relation to humanity's impact on the planet.

Author : Margit Keller,Bente Halkier,Terhi-Anna Wilska,Monica Truninger
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317380900

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Routledge Handbook on Consumption by Margit Keller,Bente Halkier,Terhi-Anna Wilska,Monica Truninger Pdf

Consumption research is burgeoning across a wide range of disciplines. The Routledge Handbook on Consumption gathers experts from around the world to provide a nuanced overview of the latest scholarship in this expanding field. At once ambitious and timely, the volume provides an ideal map for those looking to position their work, find new analytic insights and identify research gaps. With an intuitive thematic structure and resolutely international outlook, it engages with theory and methodology; markets and businesses; policies, politics and the state; and culture and everyday life. It will be essential reading for students and scholars across the social and economic sciences.

Author : David E. Lorey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0842050493

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Global Environmental Challenges of the Twenty-first Century by David E. Lorey Pdf

The most serious environmental problems of the twenty-first century have the potential to alter the course of life on this planet. Global warming, toxic waste, water and air pollution, acid rain, and shrinking energy supplies are frightening challenges that may threaten our future if we do not face up to them.p Global Environmental Challenges provides important information and gives us hope about the environment. This book first helps us to grasp these difficulties, then shows us the choices we can make. How long to leave a light on, whether to take the car, the train, or bicycle to work, whether to recycle or throw away, whether to vote to curb continued suburban sprawl-all of these decisions can make a difference.p This collection of some of the best essays and articles on the environment comes from a variety of sources, including journals, magazines, websites of ecological/conservation organizations, and other publications.p Five major sections investigate the interaction of population growth,consumption, and environment; the emerging crisis in freshwater around the globe; global climate and atmosphere (including global warming); biodiversity loss; and the concept of sustainable development-using natural resources to place future human development on a sustainable path. The final section on sustainable development reveals how we can take action. As individuals, we can make a difference readily and easily without making huge personal sacrifices. As societies, we can work together in a global community of interest to sustain the earth.p This valuable resource offers readers a better understanding of our environmental problems and presents solutions to improving the health of theplanet.p

Author : Peter Oosterveer
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1782543899

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Global Governance of Food Production and Consumption by Peter Oosterveer Pdf

The provision of food is undergoing radical transformations throughout the global community. Peter Oosterveer argues that, as a consequence, conventional national governmental regulations can no longer adequately respond to existing and emerging food risks and to environmental concerns. This book examines these challenges.

Author : Sophie Dubuisson-Quellier
Publisher : Fernwood Books Limited
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1552665836

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Ethical Consumption by Sophie Dubuisson-Quellier Pdf

Consumers are often importuned to exercise responsibility in the market sphere and to consume with an eye to their obligations as citizens. They express their ideals directly through their purchases, participating in larger-scale protests: boycotting products from a large multinational corporation, buying ethical products, resisting advertising campaigns and supporting alternative forms of trade. Whether in the form of a small collective action or a mass movement, the capacity to put new environmental or ethical social issues on the political, economic or media agenda via the market is quite real. While most ethical consumption does not challenge capitalism or the very foundations of the market itself, it does raise issues and consciousness about social and environmental justice. In Ethical Consumption, Dubuisson-Quellier suggests that ethical consumption can create a consumerism that is not only a forum for expressing the needs and wants as the market has done in the past, but as a space for the construction of social responsibility.

Author : Mehita Iqani
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137390134

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Consumption, Media and the Global South by Mehita Iqani Pdf

What does consumption in the global south signify, and how are its complexities communicated in media discourses? This book looks at the media representation of consumer culture in Africa, China, Brazil and India through case studies ranging from celebrity selfies, to travel websites, news reports and documentary film.

Author : Sigrid Reiter
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Energy conservation
ISBN : 1629486515

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Energy Consumption by Sigrid Reiter Pdf

Energy is central to sustainable development. It has huge environmental, social, and economic impacts, such as its influence on climate change, poverty reduction efforts, industrial and agricultural productivity and environmental and human health. The development of strategies towards a sustainable energy transition is one of the most important world challenges of the twenty-first century. The choices that we will make in the coming years about energy will determine what world future generations will inherit. This book gives an overview of the key issues, strategies, operational guidelines and policy implications of current research on the transition to more sustainable energy consumption. It investigates the important issue of the relation between human activities, energy systems and energy use. It addresses the environmental, social and economic impacts of energy consumption and their interrelationships. This book was written by academic and research experts in the field of energy, and they have developed strategies for an energy sustainable plan for the main energy-intensive sectors: energy production, transportation, buildings, agriculture and domestic appliances. The best opportunities and solutions for energy demand reduction are shown, including energy efficiency improvement, increases in the share of renewable energy sources, technological progress and behavioural changes in the field of energy. The aim of this work is to guide the reader toward more efficient policies and actions that will actually improve the future. The book also addresses the different issues faced by developing and developed countries, as well as their relative respective solutions. It presents various alternative pathways that are open to our societies. The methods of energy consumption assessment and modelling approaches are also discussed. All those who are interested in energy challenges will find practical knowledge and operational solutions in this book, providing a solid foundation for making well-informed choices in the future, as individuals and as societies.

Author : Ranjula Bali Swain,Susanne Sweet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3030563723

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Sustainable Consumption and Production, Volume I by Ranjula Bali Swain,Susanne Sweet Pdf

Economic growth and increasing population impose long-term risks to the environment and society. Approaches to address the impact of consumption and production on bio-diversity loss, resource availability, climate change, and mounting waste problems on land and in seas have yet not proven to be successful. This calls for innovative approaches to address the complex environmental, social, and economic interrelationships that have to be addressed in transforming to sustainable development. Sustainable Consumption and Production, Volume I: Challenges and Development aims to explore critical global challenges and addresses how consumers, producers, the private sector, international organizations, and governments can play an active role in innovating businesses to support a transitioning towards sustainable consumption and production. The book explores different approaches and innovations to address sustainable consumption and production. It details multiple social and economic contexts to the challenges and developments towards a sustainable consumption and production. The book is of interest to economists, students, businesses, and policymakers. Chapter 14 and chapter 15 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com. Ranjula Bali Swain is Visiting Professor at Mistra Center for Sustainalbe Markets (Misum), Stockholm School of Economics and Professor of Economics at Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden. Her research focusses on sustainable development, environmental economics and development economics. Susanne Sweet is an Associate Professor at Stockholm School of Economics. Sweet's research covers a broad range of topics on corporate sustainability and responsibility and she has for the past eight years been the research manager for a large cross disciplinary research program on circular fashion.

Author : Kim Humphery
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745659039

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Excess by Kim Humphery Pdf

Over-consumption is one of the key issues of our time, especially in the Western world. Over the past decade, in the face of historically unprecedented levels of consumer spending in the West - and the more recent impact of recession - a vigorous politics of anti-consumerism has emerged in a range of wealthy nations. This timely and original new book provides a comprehensive overview and analysis of what has come to be called the 'new politics of consumption'; a politics embodied in movements such as culture jamming, simple living, slow food and fair trade. The book offers an examination of anti-consumerism at a time when the idea of 'consumer excess' is being re-framed by a global economic downturn, and crucially explores what this means for the future of political debate. Drawing on interviews with activists across three continents, and offering a refreshingly accessible discussion of contemporary commentary and theory, Kim Humphery sympathetically explores anti-consumerism as cultural interpretation, lifestyle change, and collective action. Whilst analysing the positive advances of the anti-consumerist movement, Excess also challenges contemporary critical thinking on consumption, taking issue with the return to theories of mass culture in contemporary anti-consumerist polemic. Alternatively, Humphery begins to forge a politics of anti-consumerism that addresses the complexity of material acquisition and which avoids treating consumers as mere dupes in the logic of capitalism, viewing them instead as active participants in a culture which is capable of transformation.

Author : Carl A. Zimring,William L. Rathje, Consulting Editor
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 1224 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781506338279

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Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste by Carl A. Zimring,William L. Rathje, Consulting Editor Pdf

Archaeologists and anthropologists have long studied artifacts of refuse from the distant past as a portal into ancient civilizations, but examining what we throw away today tells a story in real time and becomes an important and useful tool for academic study. Trash is studied by behavioral scientists who use data com­piled from the exploration of dumpsters to better understand our modern society and culture. Why does the average American household send 470 pounds of uneaten food to the garbage can on an annual basis? How do different societies around the world cope with their garbage in these troubled environmental times? How does our trash give insight into our attitudes about gender, class, religion, and art? The Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste explores the topic across multiple disciplines within the social sciences and ranges further to include business, consumerism, environmentalism, and marketing to comprise an outstanding reference for academic and public libraries.