Sustainable Consumption - Design, Innovation and Practice

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. It features contributions from social scientists (e.g. from the fields of innovation studies, geography, environmental policy and sociology) and practitioners, serving to generate a short-list of research perspectives and topics around which future research and actions in practice will be orientated. The book consists of ten chapters divided into three parts, focusing on: perspectives/methodological insights; empirical work integrating consumption and production; and site-specific practitioner-oriented case studies. The conclusion examines the key aspects of policy, research and practical implications.

Product details

• Assisted by: Audley Genus (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.06.2016
• EAN: 9783319296630
• ISBN: 978-3-31-929663-0
• No. of pages: 175
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 237 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 306 g
• Illustrations: X, 175 p. 12 illus., 4 illus. in color.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace; Sustainable Development and Sustainability Transition Studies; The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; C, Environmental Policy, Social Sciences, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Earth and Environmental Science, Environmental law, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Social research & statistics, Human Geography, Sociological Methods