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Sustainable Consumption |
Edited by Dale Southerton, University of Manchester, UK, Heather Chappells, University of Lancaster, UK and Bas Van Vliet, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
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| 2005 |
192 pp |
Hardback |
978 1 84376 330 7 |
$95.00 |
on-line discount
$85.50 |
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‘This book offers an interesting contribution to debates on sustainable consumption, arguing for an approach that recognises how choices and needs are “socially produced” and mediated through infrastructures or systems of provision, rather than understood in terms of individual, market-based notions of “green consumerism”. This is a polished piece of work and deserves to be read carefully.’
– Michael Redclift, King’s College, University of London, UK
Sustainable Consumption is unique, not just in its inter-disciplinary and substantive subject matter (changing networks of utility consumption and production), but because it examines empirically the key theoretical debates underpinning the social sciences at the beginning of the 21st century. This book shifts the focus of sustainable consumption away from the individual consumer and their lifestyles, and examines how existing systems of provision constrain how people consume and how sustainability is conceived in popular and policy-related discourses.
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Contents: 1. Introduction: Consumption, Infrastructures and Environmental Sustainability Part I: Consumption, Lifestyle and Choice 2. Sustainable Consumption: A Theoretical and Environmental Policy Perspective 3. The Limited Autonomy of the Consumer: Implications for Sustainable Consumption 4. The New ‘Energy Divide’: Politics, Social Equity and Sustainable Consumption in Reformed Infrastructures Part II: Scales of Provision and Intermediaries 5. Shifting Scales of Infrastructure Provision 6. Sustainable Infrastructures by Proxy? Intermediation Beyond the Production–Consumption Nexus Part III: Infrastructural Change and Inflexibility 7. Institutional Restructuring, Entrenched Infrastructures and the Dilemma of Overcapacity 8. Transport Infrastructures: A Socio-Spatial-Temporal Model 9. Infrastructures, Crises and the Orchestration of Demand 10. Conclusions Bibliography Index
Contributors: N. Cass, H. Chappells, M. Hand, S. Marvin, W. Medd, T. Moss, E. Shove, D. Southerton, G. Spaargaren, J. Summerton, J. Urry, B. Van Vliet, A. Warde
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