Confronting Consumption
Comforting terms such as sustainable development and green production frame environmental debate by stressing technology (not green enough), economic growth (not enough in the right places), and population (too large). Concern about consumption emerges, if at all, in benign ways; as calls for green purchasing or more recycling, or for small changes in production processes. Many academics, policymakers, and journalists, in fact, accept the economists' view of consumption as nothing less than the purpose of the economy. Yet many people have a troubled, intuitive understanding that tinkering at the margins of production and purchasing will not p…
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Weitere Autoren: Maniates, Michael (Hrsg.) / Conca, Ken (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-262-30367-5
- EAN: 9780262303675
- Produktnummer: 27875013
- Verlag: MIT Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 392 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 565 KB
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Thomas Princen explores ecological and economic sustainability at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Treading Softly: Paths to Ecological Order and The Logic of Sufficiency (both published by the MIT Press).Michael Maniates is Professor of Political Science and Environmental Science at Allegheny College. He is the coeditor, with Thomas Princen and Ken Conca, of Confronting Consumption (MIT Press, 2002).Ken Conca is Associate Professor of Government and Politics and Director of the Harrison Program on the Future Global Agenda at the University of Maryland.
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