Sustainable Consumption : Design, Innovation and Practice

✍ Scribed by Audley Genus (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 183
• Series: The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science 3
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book originates from the work of contributors to initiatives and global networks promoting and pursuing lines of enquiry that recognise and probe relationships between sustainable consumption, design and production, and the implications of those relationships for new economic activity and the way we live and govern ourselves. It features contributions from social scientists (e.g. from the fields of innovation studies, geography, environmental policy and sociology) and practitioners, serving to generate a short-list of research perspectives and topics around which future research and actions in practice will be orientated. The book consists of ten chapters divided into three parts, focusing on: perspectives/methodological insights; empirical work integrating consumption and production; and site-specific practitioner-oriented case studies. The conclusion examines the key aspects of policy, research and practical implications.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-14
The Role of Design as a Catalyst for Sustainable DIY....Pages 15-34
The Individual-Practice Framework: A Design Tool for Understanding Consumer Behaviour....Pages 35-50
From Print to Digital: Textual Technologies and Reading as a Sociotechnical Practice....Pages 51-64
Availability Cascades and the Sharing Economy: A Critique of Sharing Economy Narratives....Pages 65-82
Communicating Sustainability: The Case of Slow-Fashion Micro-organizations....Pages 83-99
Steering Sustainable Food Consumption in Japan: Trust, Relationships, and the Ties that Bind....Pages 101-117
The Potential for Sustainable Production and Consumption in a Technological Society....Pages 119-134
Promoting Sustainable Consumption—a View from the Ground....Pages 135-142
Conclusion....Pages 143-159
Back Matter....Pages 161-175

✦ Subjects

Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice; Human Geography; Methodology of the Social Sciences