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Sustainable Consumption

Design, Innovation and Practice

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  • © 2016

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Editors:
  1. Audley Genus

    1. Small Business Research Centre,, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom

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  • Offers a holistic treatment of sustainable consumption and production
  • Helps readers to think about sustainable consumption/production in novel ways
  • Unconventional approach spanning theory, empirical research, action initiatives, and policy implications
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science (APESS, volume 3)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Audley Genus, Ann Thorpe
    Pages 1-14

  3. The Role of Design as a Catalyst for Sustainable DIY

    • Giuseppe Salvia, Tim Cooper
    Pages 15-34

  4. The Individual-Practice Framework: A Design Tool for Understanding Consumer Behaviour

    • Laura Piscicelli, Mariale Moreno, Tim Cooper, Tom Fisher
    Pages 35-50

  5. From Print to Digital: Textual Technologies and Reading as a Sociotechnical Practice

    • Athena Piterou, Fred Steward
    Pages 51-64

  6. Availability Cascades and the Sharing Economy: A Critique of Sharing Economy Narratives

    • Sarah Netter
    Pages 65-82

  7. Communicating Sustainability: The Case of Slow-Fashion Micro-organizations

    • Claudia E. Henninger, Panayiota J. Alevizou, Caroline J. Oates, Ranis Cheng
    Pages 83-99

  8. Steering Sustainable Food Consumption in Japan: Trust, Relationships, and the Ties that Bind

    • Steven R. McGreevy, Motoki Akitsu
    Pages 101-117

  9. The Potential for Sustainable Production and Consumption in a Technological Society

    • Anne-Marie Coles
    Pages 119-134

  10. Promoting Sustainable Consumption—a View from the Ground

    • Mandy Meikle
    Pages 135-142

  11. Conclusion

    • Audley Genus
    Pages 143-159

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 161-175
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About this book

This book originates from the work of contributors to initiatives and global networks promoting and pursuing lines of enquiry that recognise and probe relationships between sustainable consumption, design and production, and the implications of those relationships for new economic activity and the way we live and govern ourselves. It features contributions from social scientists (e.g. from the fields of innovation studies, geography, environmental policy and sociology) and practitioners, serving to generate a short-list of research perspectives and topics around which future research and actions in practice will be orientated. The book consists of ten chapters divided into three parts, focusing on: perspectives/methodological insights; empirical work integrating consumption and production; and site-specific practitioner-oriented case studies. The conclusion examines the key aspects of policy, research and practical implications.

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  • Small Business Research Centre,, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom

    Audley Genus

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