The Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Consumption

Abstract

Readings in Sustainable Consumption * Part I, Framing Sustainable Consumption * Consumption from a Human Development Perspective * Making Sense of Sustainable Consumption * Consumption and It's Externalities: Where Economy Meets Ecology * Pursuing More Sustainable Consumption by Analysing Household Metabolism in European Countires and Cities * Accounting for Sustainable Consumption: A Review of Studies of the Environmental Impacts of Households * Challenges for Sustainable Consumption Policy * Part II, Resisting Consumerism * The Dubious Rewards of Consumption * The New Commodity Fetishism * False Connections * Living More Simply * Voluntary Simplicity: Characterization, Select Psychological Implications and Societal Consequences * Learning Diderot's Lesson: Stopping the Upward Creep of Desire * Part III, Resisting Simplicity * The Politics of Sustainable Consumption: The Case of the Netherlands * The Poverty of Morality * Relative Poverty - Relative Communication * Two Alternative Economic Models of Why Enough Will Never Be Enough * The Evocative Power of Things: Consumer Goods and the Preservation of Hopes and Ideals * Consuming Goods and the Good of Consuming * Part IV, Reframing Sustainable Consumption * Efficiency and Consumption: Technology and Practice * Competing Discourses of Sustainable Consumption: Does the 'Rationalization of Lifestyles' Make Sense? * Ethics of Consumption * Making Ends Meet - in the Household and on the Planet * The Costs and Benefits of Consuming * Consuming Paradise? Towards a Social and Cultural Psychology of Sustainable Consumption * Index