Full Description
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.
Contents
Introduction.- An Institutional Approach to Sustainable Consumption and Production.- Discourses of Sustainability.- Sustainable Consumption and Production: Insights from Practice Theory.- Beyond Backcasting.- Developing notions of the 'good life'.- Social structures and agency in backcasting.- Making practice theory practicable: towards more sustainable forms of consumption.- Food Consumption Habits and Urban Allotment Gardens: Case Study of Riga, Latvia.- Creating low carbon neighbourhoods in Newcastle upon Tyne.- Reducing consumption distance in Ireland.- Conclusion.
