Innovations in Sustainable Consumption

Contents:

Preface

1. Societal Innovation in a Constrained World: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives
Halina Szejnwald Brown, Philip J. Vergragt, and Maurie J. Cohen

PART I: NEW ECONOMICS
2. The Macroeconomics of Development Without Throughput Growth
Jonathan M. Harris

3. Ecological Macroeconomics: Implications for the Roles of Consumer-Citizens
Inge Ropke

4. Going for a Better Life
John Stutz

5. Welcome to the Consumption Line: Sustainability, Social Organization and the Wage-Price Gap
Emanuel Ubert and Michael M. Bell

PART II: SOCIO-TECHNICAL TRANSITIONS
6. The Dual Challenge of Sustainability Transitions: Different Trajectories and Criteria
Rene Kemp and Harro van Lente

7. Grassroots Innovations for Sustainable Energy: Exploring Niche-Development Processes Among Community-Energy Initiatives
Sabine Hielscher, Gill Seyfang and Adrian Smith

8. Sustainable Consumption, Energy and Failed Transitions: The Problem of Adaptation
David J. Hess

9. Clusters in Transition: Analysis of a Sustainable Energy-Cluster Initiative in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Jennie C. Stephens and Stephen M. McCauley

PART III: SOCIAL PRACTICE THEORIES
10. Sustainable Lifestyles in a New Economy: A Practice Theoretical Perspective on Change Behavior Campaigns and Sustainability Issues
Bente Halkier

11. The Cultural Dimension of Sustainable Consumption Practices: An Exploration in Theory and Policy
Gert Spaargaren

12. Taking Social Practice Theories on the Road: A Mixed-Methods Case Study of Sustainable Transportation
Emily Kennedy, Harvey Krahn and Naomi T. Krogman

Index

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• Sustentabilidade
• Impacto social dos temas ambientais
• Ecologia aplicada

Sustainable consumption; social innovation; new economics; ecological macroeconomics; socio-technical transitions; social practice theories