Exploring sustainable consumption: environmental policy and the social sciences

✍ Scribed by Maurie J Cohen; Joseph Murphy

Publisher: Pergamon
Year: 2001
Tongue: English
Leaves: 234
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Content: Consumption, environment and public policy / Joseph Murphy and Maurie J. Cohen --
The emergent environmental policy discourse on sustainable consumption / Maurie J. Cohen --
From production to consumption: environmental policy in the European Union / Joseph Murphy --
Liberal neutrality and consumption: the dispute over fur / Markku Oksanen --
Economics, ethics and green consumerism / Jouni Paavola --
Sustaining foods: organic consumption and the socio-ecological imaginary / David Goodman and Michael Goodman --
"Changing nature": the consumption of space and the construction of nature on "the Mayan Riviera" / Michael Redclift --
Working for beans and refrigerators: learning about environmental policy from Mexican northern-border consumers / Josiah McC. Heyman --
Control and flow: rethinking the sociology, technology and politics of water consumption / Heather Chappells, Jan Selby and Elizabeth Shove --
Environmental concern and anti-consumerism in the self-concept: do they share the same basis? / Stephen Zavestoski --
Sustainable lifestyles: rethinking barriers and behaviour change / Kersty Hobson --
Sustainable consumption by design / Kate Fletcher, Emma Dewberry and Phillip Goggin --
Sustainable consumption: environmental policy and the social sciences / Joseph Murphy and Maurie J. Cohen.

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