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...
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Dokumenttypen: | Buch |
Medientypen: | Text |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2021 |
Publikation in MIAMI: | 16.03.2021 |
Datum der letzten Änderung: | 18.04.2023 |
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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.