The New Economics of Sustainable Consumption: Seeds of Change

by G. Seyfang

Overview

This book offers a fresh look at sustainable consumption, exploring how grassroots community action can spread ideas in society. It presents a 'New Economics' approach based on alternative measures of wealth and value, examining how these are put into practice through local organic food systems, low-impact eco-housing, and complementary currencies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349357512
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2011
Series:	Energy, Climate and the Environment
Edition description:	1st ed. 2011
Pages:	218
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

GILL SEYFANG is an Environmental Social Scientist at the University of East Anglia, UK, working on sustainable consumption. She currently holds a Research Councils UK Academic Fellowship and is developing a research programme in Low-Carbon Lifestyles. She is co-editor of 'Corporate Responsibility and Labour Rights'.

Table of Contents

List of Figures viii

List of Tables ix

Acknowledgements x

1 Introduction: A Consuming Issue 1

2 Sustainable Consumption: A Mainstream Agenda 27

3 Sustainable Consumption and the New Economics 45

4 Grassroots Innovations for Sustainable Consumption 63

5 Sustainable Food: Growing Carrots and Community 83

6 Sustainable Housing: Building a Greener Future 112

7 Sustainable Currencies: Green Money from the Grassroots 110

8 Conclusions: Seedbeds for Sustainable Consumption 168

References 190

Index 209

Editorial Reviews

'Dr Seyfang's groundbreaking book offers a fresh look at sustainable consumption, presenting a holistic new economics approach.' - Irish News

'Provides a much needed means for thinking simultaneously about the social, technical and political dynamics of shifting systems of provision and practice, and one which offers significant lessons for future research and policy in this field.' - Environmental Politics

'The New Economics offers a radically different approach to sustainable consumption.' - In-Spire Journal of Law, Politics and Societies

'A valuable contribution the arguments and conclusions of the book form a congruent and comprehensive picture of what is needed to reverse the consequence of bigness, commodification and globalization.' - Journal of Industrial Ecology

'This book is much needed.' - Canadian Journal of Sociology

'Highly recommended.' - E-Journal of Solidarity, Sustainability and Nonviolence

'One of the key texts on sustainable consumption.' - Lucie Middlemiss,University of Leeds, UK

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