Green Consumerism - An A-To-Z Guide

Klappentext Via 150 signed entries! Green Consumerism: An A-to-Z Guide offers a wide-ranging examination of green consumerism! one reflecting the diversity of views and debates surrounding the concept. The multiplicity of topics and disciplinary perspectives provides a useful survey of the nature of green consumerism! the forms it takes! the issues impacting it! and the practices it involves. Contributing authors also provide insights into the social and spacial constitution of green consumerism! its multifaceted and sometimes contested contours! and the ways it is embedded and shaped in relation to wider cultural! economic! political and environmental processes. Readers will derive a sense not only of what green consumerism has become! but more critically! how it might evolve! addressing both limitations and possibilities for real and meaningful change. Along with the articles! which include cross-references and further reading suggestions! pedagogical elements of this electronic-only product include a Reader's Guide! Chronology! Resource Guide! Glossary! Appendix! and thorough Index. Zusammenfassung This sixth volume in the SAGE Series on Green Society covers the consumption! availability! and distribution of energy and other resources in the personal consumer environment.

Product details

• Authors: Juliana Mansvelt, Mansvelt Juliana
• Assisted by: Juliana Mansvelt (Editor), Mansvelt Juliana (Editor), Paul Robbins (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.06.2011
• EAN: 9781412996853
• ISBN: 978-1-4129-9685-3
• No. of pages: 560
• Series: The Sage Reference Series on Green Society: Toward a Sustainable Future; Sage Reference Series on Green; The SAGE Reference Series on Green Society: Toward a Sustainable Future-Series Editor: Paul Robbins; Sage Reference Series on Green; The SAGE Reference Series on Green Society: Toward a Sustainable Future-Series Editor: Paul Robbins; The Sage Reference Green Socie
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Consumer Behavior, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Reference, The environment, Reference works, Science / Environmental Science, Consumerism