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...

Verfasser: Fuchs, Doris A.
Sahakian, Marlyne
Gumbert, Tobias
Di Giulio, Antonietta
Maniates, Michael
Lorek, Sylvia
Graf, Antonia
Dokumenttypen:Buch
Medientypen:Text
Erscheinungsdatum:2021
Publikation in MIAMI:16.03.2021
Datum der letzten Änderung:18.04.2023
Verlag/Hrsg.: Routledge (Verlag)
Angaben zur Ausgabe:[Electronic ed.]
Quelle: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.
Schlagwörter:Development Studies; Economics; Finance; Business & Industry; Environment and Sustainability; Social Sciences
Fachgebiet (DDC):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
Lizenz:CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Sprache:Englisch
Förderung:Finanziert durch den Open-Access-Publikationsfonds 2021 der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU Münster)
Format:PDF-Dokument
ISBN:978-0-367-74874-6
URN:urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-78029434394
Weitere Identifikatoren:DOI: 10.17879/20069451367
Permalink:https://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-78029434394
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Onlinezugriff:fuchs_2021_978-0-367-74874-6.pdf
Inhaltsverzeichnis:
  • List of fgures ..... xi
  • List of boxes ..... xiii
  • Acknowledgments ..... xv
  • 1 Living well within limits ..... 1
  • 2 Our vision: the good life ..... 6
  • But what is a good life? ..... 8
  • Focusing on needs ..... 12
  • Slipping through our fngers ..... 17
  • Can we be responsible for a good life for others? ..... 22
  • 3 Consumption corridors as a vehicle to pursue the good life ..... 33
  • The idea ..... 33
  • Limits are already out there ..... 38
  • What kind of processes are needed? ..... 45
  • Getting started and building momentum ..... 52
  • 4 What’s stopping us? ..... 55
  • Limits to the salvation potential of technological innovation ..... 55
  • Limits to effciency and markets as solutions ..... 59
  • Limits to consumer sovereignty and responsibility ..... 61
  • No limits to freedom in democratic societies? ..... 67
  • Shedding myths in pursuit of social change ..... 69
  • 5 Visionary change: corridors as a pathway to the good life ..... 71
  • Annex 1: Needs ..... 77
  • Annex 2: Indicators of quality of life ..... 82
  • Annex 3: Estimates of upper and lower sustainable limits in foor space ..... 84
  • References ..... 85
  • Index ..... 91.