Innovations in Sustainable Consumption : New Economics, Socio-technical Transitions and Social Practices PDF
Edited by Maurie J. Cohen, Halina Szejnwald Brown, Philip J. Vergragt
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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.
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- Publisher:Edward Elgar Publishing
- Publication Date:28/02/2013
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Publisher:Edward Elgar Publishing
- Publication Date:28/02/2013
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- ISBN:9781781001349
