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Confronting consumption / edited by Thomas Princen, Michael Maniates, and Ken Conca.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Consumption (Economics)--Environmental aspects.
- Consumption (Economics).
- Environmental policy.
- Sustainable development.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (393 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Essays that offer ecological, social, and political perspectives on the problem of overconsumption.
- Contents:
- Contents ; Preface; 1 - Confronting Consumption ; I - The Consumption Angle; 2 - Consumption and Its Externalities: Where Economy Meets Ecology ; 3 - Individualization: Plant a Tree, Buy a Bike, Save the World?; 4 - Commoditization: Consumption Efficiency and an Economy of Care and Connection ; II - Chains of Consumption; 5 - Distancing: Consumption and the Severing of Feedback; 6 - Consumption and Environment in a Global Economy; 7 - The Distancing of Waste: Overconsumption in a Global Economy
- 8 - Environmentally Damaging Consumption: The Impact of American Markets on Tropical Ecosystems in the Twentieth CenturyIII - On the Ground ; 9 - In Search of Consumptive Resistance: The Voluntary Simplicity Movement ; 10 - Jamming Culture: Adbusters' Hip Media Campaign against Consumerism ; 11 - Think Globally, Transact Locally: The Local- Currency Movement and Green Political Economy ; 12 - Caveat Certificatum: The Case of Forest Certification ; 13 - Citizens or Consumers: The Home Power Movement as a New Practice of Technology ; 14 - Conclusion: To Confront Consumption ; Notes
- Contributors Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 9786612100062
- 9781282100060
- 1282100068
- 9780262281928
- 0262281929
- 9780585442655
- 0585442657
- OCLC:
- 51958199
- Publisher Number:
- ebc3338852
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