Challenging Consumption

Name: Challenging Consumption
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9780415820745
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Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainability

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Challenging Consumption explores sustainable consumption through four core themes: Living, Moving, Dwelling and Futures. It combines theoretical insights with practical case studies on everyday practices like mobility, heating, washing and eating. The book advances social practice theory and behavioural change frameworks, concluding with future research directions and policy suggestions.

This volume stands out by shifting focus from individual responsibility to wider social, economic and political structures influencing sustainable consumption, making it relevant for students and policy-makers interested in environmental change.
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This book is ideal for academics, students and policy-makers engaged in sustainability studies, environmental policy and social science research related to consumption and behavioural change.

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Sustainable consumption is a central research topic in academic discourses of sustainable development and global environmental change. Informed by a number of disciplinary perspectives, Challenging Consumption is structured around four key themes in sustainable consumption research: Living, Moving, Dwelling and Futures.

The collection successfully balances theoretical insights with grounded case studies, on mobility, heating, washing and eating practices, and concludes by exploring future sustainable consumption research pathways and policy recommendations. Theoretical frameworks are advanced throughout the volume, especially in relation to social practice theory, theories of behavioural change and innovative visioning and backcasting methodologies.

This groundbreaking book draws on conceptual approaches which move beyond the responsibility of the individual consumer to take into account wider social, economic and political structures and processes. This is done in order to highlight both possibilities for and challenges to sustainable consumption.

This approach enables students and policy-makers alike to easily recognise the applicability of social science theories.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780415820745

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 28 May 2014

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 6 Tables, black and white

Contributors:

Edited by Frances Fahy
Edited by Henrike Rau
Edited by Anna R. Davies

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 570g

Pages: 224

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Business & Entrepreneurship Education & Reference Engineering, Technology & Agriculture Finance & Economics Finance & Investment Marketing & Sales Non-Fiction Science & Nature Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainability

About the Author

Anna R. Davies is a Professor of Geography in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Frances Fahy is a lecturer in Environmental Geography at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Henrike Rau is a lecturer in Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

Challenging Consumption