{"title":"Prosumption for sustainable consumption and its implications for sustainable consumption governance","authors":"Matthias Lehner","doi":"10.4337/9781788117814.00016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788117814.00016","url":null,"abstract":"The market economy has turned individuals in Western societies from self-sufficient, low-throughput producers of goods to highly interdependent, high-throughput consumers of goods. It has also turned our societies into massive resource-consuming and waste-creating operations. Dramatically improved production methods offer access to new goods at lower prices. This has shifted the economic logic of maintaining and repairing goods to replacing them frequently instead. However, this development has also turned once resource-efficient sufficiency economies into industrialized overconsumption societies with high environmental impacts. There are two main reasons for the replacement of sufficiency with overconsumption; (1) productivity gains in industrial production processes resulting in increased purchasing power, and (2) sophisticated marketing and sales tactics.","PeriodicalId":288143,"journal":{"name":"A Research Agenda for Sustainable Consumption Governance","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133265191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction to A Research Agenda for Sustainable Consumption Governance","authors":"O. Mont","doi":"10.4337/9781788117814.00008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788117814.00008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":288143,"journal":{"name":"A Research Agenda for Sustainable Consumption Governance","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123976568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editing out unsustainability from consumption: From information provision to nudging and social practice theory","authors":"E. Heiskanen, S. Laakso","doi":"10.4337/9781788117814.00020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788117814.00020","url":null,"abstract":"Human actions have already exceeded many planetary boundaries (Steffen et al., 2015). In order to stay within the safe operating space, both decarbonization and dematerialization by a factor of ten or more are deemed necessary (Bringezu, 2015; Jackson, 2009; Tukker et al., 2010). These targets require changes in consumption patterns: the utilization of products, services and infrastructure, from acquisition and use to disposal (Girod et al., 2014).","PeriodicalId":288143,"journal":{"name":"A Research Agenda for Sustainable Consumption Governance","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132589789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"It is never too late to give up, or is it? Revisiting policies for sustainable consumption","authors":"C. Dalhammar","doi":"10.4337/9781788117814.00019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788117814.00019","url":null,"abstract":"labelling of food, cer-tification schemes for hotels and other industries, consumer campaigns,","PeriodicalId":288143,"journal":{"name":"A Research Agenda for Sustainable Consumption Governance","volume":"181 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133415193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluating the sustainability impacts of the sharing economy using input-output analysis","authors":"A. Plepys, Jagdeep Singh","doi":"10.4337/9781788117814.00013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788117814.00013","url":null,"abstract":"Although sharing has been practised for millennia in different societies, today, the emerging notion of the sharing economy (SE) is regarded as a new social phenomenon. It refers to various forms of transactions between strangers enabling access to goods without ownership, utilizing the capacity of privately owned assets not currently in use and exploiting the benefits of information technologies to reduce transaction costs.","PeriodicalId":288143,"journal":{"name":"A Research Agenda for Sustainable Consumption Governance","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131607134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quantifying environmental impacts of consumption: Implications for governance","authors":"A. Tukker","doi":"10.4337/9781788117814.00012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788117814.00012","url":null,"abstract":"Ultimately, all production is driven by consumption. It is hence final consumption by humanity that drives the environmental impacts of production. In the past, global trade was just a small part of the economic production within a country. At that time, the monitoring of carbon and other emissions and resource extraction at country level was reasonably representative of the environmental pressures caused by consumption in each country. However, in recent decades, growth in international trade has outpaced the growth of global gross domestic product (GDP). It is no longer sufficient to analyse the impacts of production at national level (Peters et al., 2011; Wiedmann et al., 2011). Consumption in one country drives production in value chains spanning many others. This creates a complex, global web of activities impacting the environment in multi-faceted ways (Tukker and Dietzenbacher, 2013). For proper governance of sustainable consumption, it is essential to understand how consumption of specific categories of goods and services in specific countries (and ideally by specific consumer groups) drive environmental impacts in global value chains.","PeriodicalId":288143,"journal":{"name":"A Research Agenda for Sustainable Consumption Governance","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131476702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Florian Lüdeke‐Freund, Tobias Froese, S. Schaltegger
{"title":"The role of business models for sustainable consumption: A pattern approach","authors":"Florian Lüdeke‐Freund, Tobias Froese, S. Schaltegger","doi":"10.4337/9781788117814.00015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788117814.00015","url":null,"abstract":"the core of a solution to this problem that can be repeatedly applied in a multitude of ways, situ-ations, contexts, and domains. A sustainable business model pattern also describes the design principles, value-creating activities, and their arrangements that are required to provide a useful problem-solution combination.","PeriodicalId":288143,"journal":{"name":"A Research Agenda for Sustainable Consumption Governance","volume":"287 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131521035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of local governments in governing sustainable consumption and sharing cities","authors":"J. Palm, Nora Smedby, K. McCormick","doi":"10.4337/9781788117814.00021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788117814.00021","url":null,"abstract":"Municipalities are key actors in their role as planners for sustainable urban development, and also have the responsibility to transform ambitious national and global goals and visions into local practices (McCormick et al., 2013). The role of municipalities in relation to enhancing sustainable consumption patterns has been increasingly highlighted by policy-makers and in research. Creating sustainable societies and shaping their consumption patterns has become an everyday activity for municipalities. This is also the case for the Nordic countries and not least for Sweden, which will be used as an example in this Chapter. The Nordic countries have the ambition of becoming sustainable leaders and enabling sustainable consumption (Mont et al., 2013). (Less)","PeriodicalId":288143,"journal":{"name":"A Research Agenda for Sustainable Consumption Governance","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116568488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Policies and Alternative Governors of Sustainable Consumption","authors":"","doi":"10.4337/9781788117814.00018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788117814.00018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":288143,"journal":{"name":"A Research Agenda for Sustainable Consumption Governance","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116841734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Growth strategies and consumption patterns in transition: From Fordism to finance-driven capitalism","authors":"M. Koch","doi":"10.4337/9781788117814.00011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788117814.00011","url":null,"abstract":"Two centuries of capitalist growth in Western societies have coincided with significant increases in objective and subjective well-being. Yet these increases have come at a price: the thresholds for specific biophysical processes such as climate, biodiversity and the nitrogen cycle being approached or crossed (Steffen et al., 2015). Attempts to decouple gross domestic product (GDP) growth absolutely from the ecological footprints of production and consumption have not been successful to date (Pichler et al., 2017). Since the material welfare standards enjoyed by rich countries cannot be generalized to the rest of the planet, these countries would thus need to review their production and consumption patterns and ‘degrow’ to make their economies and societies compatible with planetary limits (D’Alisa et al., 2014; Koch and Mont, 2016; Spash, 2017). Indeed, if planetary boundaries are to be taken seriously, only the satisfaction of basic human needs, and not much more, could be assured in the rich countries for the time being (Koch et al., 2017). This chapter seeks to contribute to an institutional understanding of consumption governance through an analysis of how consumption practices are linked to production norms in specific capitalist growth strategies.","PeriodicalId":288143,"journal":{"name":"A Research Agenda for Sustainable Consumption Governance","volume":"129 Pt 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131212453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}