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Consumption, Sustainability and Everyday Life

This open access book seeks to understand why we consume as we do, how consumption changes, and why we keep consuming more and more, despite the visible damage we are doing to the planet. The chapters cover both the stubbornness of unsustainable consumption patterns in affluent societies and the dri...

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Format: Online
Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: Springer Nature 2023
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unsustainable consumption patterns
emerging economies
consumption studies
social practice theory
the practice turn
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KJ Business and Management::KJS Sales and marketing
thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNU Sustainability
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPQ Central / national / federal government::JPQB Central / national / federal government policies
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
Online adgang:ONIX_20230120_9783031110696_10
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Summary:This open access book seeks to understand why we consume as we do, how consumption changes, and why we keep consuming more and more, despite the visible damage we are doing to the planet. The chapters cover both the stubbornness of unsustainable consumption patterns in affluent societies and the drivers of rapidly increasing consumption in emerging economies. They focus on consumption patterns with the largest environmental footprints, including energy, housing, and mobility and engage in sophisticated ways with the theoretical frontiers of the field of consumption research, in particular on the ‘practice turn’ that has come to dominate the field in recent decades. This book maps out what we know about consumption, questions what we take for granted, and points us in new directions for better understanding—and changing—unsustainable consumption patterns.

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