Sustainable Consumption, Ecology and Fair Trade

Informationen zum Autor Edwin Zaccaï Klappentext This timely volume discusses the debates concerning sustainable consumption and the environment. Zusammenfassung This timely volume discusses the debates concerning sustainable consumption and the environment. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction Sustainable Consumption: A Short List of Contradictions Part 1: Consumption: What Kind of a Problem for Sustainable Development? 2. Sustainable Household Consumption: Fact, Future or Fantasy? 3. Epistemological Approach of Consumption: How to Attribute Power to the Consumers? 4. Unsustainable Consumption in Social and Psychological Context 5. Sustainable Consumption and Sustainable Welfare 6. What’s Wrong with Consumption: Overconsumption, Underconsumption, Misconsumption? 7. Consumption: A Field for Resistance and Moral Containment 8. Fair Trade and Economic Growth Part 2: Who Are the (Ir)responsible Consumers and Why? 9. Belgian Households and Sustainable Consumption: Capacity and Incapacity of Action 10. The Dynamic of Sustainable Consumption: Results of Qualitative Surveys 11. What Justifications for a Sustainable Consumption? 12. Consumption as a Solidarity-Based Commitment: The Case of Oxfam Worldshops' Customers Part 3: How Can (or do) Consumers and Citizens Influence Producers? 13. Marketing Ethical Products: What Can We Learn from Fair-Trade Consumer Behaviour in Belgium 14. Can Fair Trade be Extended to Massive Sales? 15. Impact of the Construction of Quality Networks at Farmer’s Level: The Example of Fair Trade Cotton 16. Changing Companies for Changing the Consumer's Behaviour, Application of the Actionalist Theory

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• Authors: Edwin Zaccai, Edwin (Universite Libre De Bruxelles Zaccai, ZACCAI EDWIN
• Assisted by: Edwin Zaccai (Editor), Edwin Zaccaï (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2007
• EAN: 9780415414920
• ISBN: 978-0-415-41492-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Environmental Politics; Environmental Politics
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Sociology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, Applied ecology, Politics & government, Politics and government, Environmental policy & protocols, Human Geography, Environmental policy and protocols