The New Economics of Sustainable Consumption: Seeds of Change

The New Economics of Sustainable Consumption: Seeds of Change

While the recent awareness of the extent of the environmental degradation caused by humans was ushered in by rhetoric championing radical lifestyle changes to address the problem, over time the discourse on sustainable consumption has slowly shifted to promote merely the consumption of "eco-fri...

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Veröffentlicht in:Contemporary sociology (Washington) 2009, Vol.38 (5), p.493-493
Hauptverfasser: Billinger, Anthony, Densberger, Kathryn, Dorius, Cassandra, Fledderjohan, Jasmine, Hall, Matt, James, Spencer, Light, Michael, Maull, Amanda, Meyer, G W F, Rafail, Pat, Rosell, Laura, Simon, Richard M, Wang, Xiaozhou, Wiernik, Craig
Format: Review
Sprache:eng
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Consumption
Economics
Environmental impact
Environmentalism
Sustainable consumption
Sustainable development
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Zusammenfassung:While the recent awareness of the extent of the environmental degradation caused by humans was ushered in by rhetoric championing radical lifestyle changes to address the problem, over time the discourse on sustainable consumption has slowly shifted to promote merely the consumption of "eco-friendly" consumer products, a practice firmly embedded within the status quo of market-based capitalism.
ISSN:0094-3061
1939-8638