Consuming the Environment

Consuming the Environment explores the environmental impacts of consuming everyday products and explains how we can consume more sustainably.

List of contents

List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Consuming Land
2 Consuming Water
3 Consuming Energy
4 Consuming Fossil Fuels
5 Consuming Waste
6 Consuming Food
7 Consuming Pets
8 Consuming Plastics
9 Consuming Electronics
10 Consuming Knowledge
11 Consuming Fashion
12 Consuming Tourism
13 Consuming Green
14 Consuming Preparedness
15 Consuming Less
Index

About the author

Myra J. Hird is a Full Professor, elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and Queen's National Scholar in the School of Environmental Studies, Queen's University, Canada. Hird is Director of Waste Flows, an interdisciplinary research project focused on waste as a global scientific-technical and socio-ethical issue. Hird has published 12 books and over 90 articles and book chapters on a diversity of topics relating to science studies. Hird's 12th book, written with Hillary Predko, is called Extracting Reconciliation and is published by Routledge. Hird represented Canada at the G7 Science Meeting on Plastic Pollution in Paris, France.

Summary

Consuming the Environment explores the environmental impacts of consuming everyday products and explains how we can consume more sustainably.

Product details

• Authors: Myra J. Hird
• Assisted by: Myra J. Hird (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032535371
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3253537-1
• No. of pages: 218
• Series: Routledge-SCORAI Studies in Sustainable Consumption
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Sociology, NATURE / Ecology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Industrial & Organizational Psychology, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Marketing / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Sales & Selling / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Distribution, Sales & marketing, Social impact of environmental issues, Occupational and industrial psychology, Occupational & industrial psychology, Development Studies, Sales and marketing, Retail and wholesale industries, Distributive industries