Innovations in Sustainable Consumption: New Economics, Socio-Technical Transitions and Social Practices - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1781001251 ISBN 13 : 9781781001257

Editeur : Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2013

Synopsis

This timely volume recognizes that traditional policy approaches to reduce human impacts on the environment through technological change - for example, emphasizing resource efficiency and the development of renewable energy sources - are insufficient to meet the most pressing sustainability challenges of the twenty-first century. Instead, the editors and contributors argue that we must fundamentally reconfigure our lifestyles and social institutions if we are to make the transition toward a truly sustainable future.

These expert contributions pinpoint specific areas in which innovation will be required. These include economic policies, socio-technical systems of production and consumption, and dominant social practices. Drawing on these and other diverse areas of scholarship, this fascinating book highlights new conceptual frameworks for achieving the twin sustainability goals of decreased resource use and enhanced individual and societal well-being.

Students, professors and policymakers in ecological economics, innovation studies, environmental policy and many other related fields will find much of interest in this pathbreaking volume.

Contributors: M.M. Bell, H.S. Brown, M.J. Cohen, B. Halkier, J.M. Harris, D.J. Hess, S. Hielscher, R. Kemp, E. Kennedy, H. Krahn, N.T. Krogman, S.M. McCauley, I. Røpke, G. Seyfang, A. Smith, G. Spaargaren, J.C. Stephens, J. Stutz, E. Ubert, H. van Lente, P.J. Vergragt

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Edited by Maurie J. Cohen, New Jersey Institute of Technology, US, Halina Szejnwald Brown, Professor of Environmental Science and Policy, Clark University, US and Philip J. Vergragt, Fellow, Tellus Institute and Research Professor, Clark University, US

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1781001251
• ISBN 13: 9781781001257
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Éditeur: Cohen Maurie J., Brown Halina Szejnwald, Vergragt Philip J.
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