A research agenda for sustainable consumption governance / / edited by Oksana Mont

• Superior document: Elgar research agendas
• Author: Mont, Oksana
• TeilnehmendeR: Mont, Oksana,; Edward Elgar Publishing,
• Place / Publishing House: Northampton : : Edward Elgar Publishing,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Elgar research agendas.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 pages).

"Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. Evaluating achievements, challenges and future avenues for research, this book explores how new dimensions of knowledge and practice contest, reshape and advance traditional understandings of sustainable consumption governance. By questioning existing academic discourse and advocating collective solutions, up-and-coming and established scholars help readers to understand diverse governance processes through a wide variety of topics. These range from consumption impacts, the circular and sharing economy, sustainable business models, consumer behaviour and work time, to understanding the role of new actors such as prosumers and city governments. The research agenda supports transformative system changes to a more sustainable society. Policy makers at international, national and local levels will benefit from the practical advice offered and forward-thinking policy suggestions. It will also be a timely read for scholars of sustainability studies, sociology of consumption, political economy and political ecology, human geography, wellbeing, environment studies and human ecology looking to gain a more well-rounded understanding of the topic"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Contents: Part I: Introduction -- I. Towards a research agenda for sustainable consumption governance / Oksana Mont -- Part II: Pre-conditions for sustainable consumption -- Governance -- 2. Why only strong sustainable consumption governance will make a difference / Sylvia Lorek and Doris Fuchs -- 3. Growth strategies and consumption patterns in transition: From Fordism to finance-driven capitalism / Max Koch -- 4. Quantifying environmental impacts of consumption - implications for governance / Arnold Tukker -- 5. Challenges and research needs in evaluating the sustainability impacts of the sharing economy using input-output analysis / Andrius Plepys and Jagdeep Singh -- Part III: Alternative systems of provisioning and consuming -- 6. The role of business models for sustainable consumption: a pattern approach / Florian Lüdeke-Freund, Tobias Froese and Stefan Schaltegger -- 7. An exploration of the significance of prosumption for sustainable consumption and its implications for sustainable consumption governance / Matthias Lehner -- 8. Putting the sharing economy into perspective / Koen Frenken and Juliet Schor -- Part IV: Policies and alternative governors of sustainable consumption -- 9. It is never too late to give up, or is it? Revisiting policies for sustainable consumption / Carl Dalhammar -- 10. Editing out unsustainability from consumption: from information provision to nudging and social practice theory / Eva Heiskanen and Senja Laakso -- 11. The role of local governments in governing sustainable consumption and sharing cities / Jenny Palm, Nora Smedby and Kes McCormick -- 12. From worktime reduction to a post-work future: implications for sustainable consumption governance / Maurie J. Cohen -- Index.