Consumption Corridors : Living a Good Life within Sustainable Limits

Consumption Corridors: Living a Good Life within Sustainable Limits explores how to enhance peoples’ chances to live a good life in a world of ecological and social limits. Rejecting familiar recitations of problems of ecological decline and planetary boundaries, this compact book instead offers a s...

Authors: Fuchs, Doris A.
Sahakian, Marlyne
Gumbert, Tobias
Di Giulio, Antonietta
Maniates, Michael
Lorek, Sylvia
Graf, Antonia
Document types:Book
Media types:Text
Publication date:2021
Date of publication on miami:16.03.2021
Modification date:18.04.2023
Publisher: Routledge (Verlag)
Edition statement:[Electronic ed.]
Source:Doris Fuchs, Marlyne Sahakian, Tobias Gumbert, Antonietta Di Giulio, Michael Maniates, Sylvia Lorek and Antonia Graf: Consumption Corridors. Living a Good Life within Sustainable Limits. (Routledge focus in environment & sustainability) New York : Routledge, 2021, ISBN 978-0-367-74872-2, 94 S.
Subjects:Development Studies; Economics; Finance; Business & Industry; Environment and Sustainability; Social Sciences
DDC Subject:170: Ethik
172: Politische Ethik
178: Konsumethik
300: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
301: Soziologie, Anthropologie
303: Gesellschaftliche Prozesse
320: Politikwissenschaft
324: Der politische Prozess
327: Internationale Beziehungen
License:CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Language:Englisch
Funding:Finanziert durch den Open-Access-Publikationsfonds 2021 der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU Münster)
Format:PDF document
ISBN:978-0-367-74874-6
URN:urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-78029434394
Other Identifiers:DOI: 10.17879/20069451367
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Consumption Corridors: Living a Good Life within Sustainable Limits explores how to enhance peoples’ chances to live a good life in a world of ecological and social limits. Rejecting familiar recitations of problems of ecological decline and planetary boundaries, this compact book instead offers a spirited explication of what everyone desires: a good life. Fundamental concepts of the good life are explained and explored, as are forces that threaten the good life for all. The remedy, says the book’s seven international authors, lies with the concept of consumption corridors, enabled by mechanisms of citizen engagement and deliberative democracy. Across five concise chapters, readers are invited into conversation about how wellbeing can be enriched by social change that joins "needs satisfaction" with consumerist restraint, social justice, and environmental sustainability. In this endeavour, lower limits of consumption that ensure minimal needs satisfaction for all are important, and enjoy ample precedent. But upper limits to consumption, argue the authors, are equally essential, and attainable, especially in those domains where limits enhance rather than undermine essential freedoms. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in the social sciences and humanities, and environmental and sustainability studies, as well as to community activists and the general public.