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Sustainable Consumption and Production, Volume I

Challenges and Development

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Provides a multidisciplinary approach to the transformation of production and markets towards sustainable development

  • Examines how behavioral insights can be leveraged by governments, international organizations, and businesses to promote more sustainable markets

  • Discusses the challenges and opportunities created through changes to consumption and production

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
  2. An Analysis of a Sustainability Index

    • Stig Blomskog, Magnus Hjelmblom
    Pages 39-63
  3. Interaction Between Government and Business to Shape Sustainable Markets

    • Sven-Olof Junker, Lars-Gunnar Mattsson
    Pages 85-106
  4. Motivations for Investment in Sustainable Consumption and Production

    • Joakim Sandberg, Emma Sjöström
    Pages 125-139
  5. Climate-Friendly Default Rules

    • Cass R. Sunstein, Lucia A. Reisch
    Pages 141-164
  6. Producing and Consuming Sustainability in Business Education

    • Tatiana Egorova, Marijane Luistro Jonsson
    Pages 165-180
  7. Sustainable Production of Forest-Risk Commodities: Governance and Disarticulations

    • Izabela Delabre, Callum Nolan, Kristjan Jespersen, Caleb Gallemore, Anthony Alexander
    Pages 209-226
  8. Urban Advantage? Sustainable Consumption and Ontological Cityism Across the Urban Hierarchy

    • Lin Lerpold, Örjan Sjöberg
    Pages 263-282Open Access
  9. Urban Advantage? Sustainability Trade-Offs Across and Within the Intra-Urban Space

    • Lin Lerpold, Örjan Sjöberg, Wing-Shing Tang
    Pages 283-313Open Access
  10. Towards Sustainable Consumption Practices: Evidence from India

    • Sangeeta Bansal, Charu Grover, Adan L. Martinez-Cruz
    Pages 343-367
  11. Feminist Ecological Economics: A Care-Centred Approach to Sustainability

    • Nicholas Reksten, Maria S. Floro
    Pages 369-389

About this book

Economic growth and increasing population impose long-term risks to the environment and society. Approaches to address the impact of consumption and production on bio-diversity loss, resource availability, climate change, and mounting waste problems on land and in seas have yet not proven to be successful. This calls for innovative approaches to address the complex environmental, social, and economic interrelationships that have to be addressed in transforming to sustainable development.  

Sustainable Consumption and Production, Volume I: Challenges and Development aims to explore critical global challenges and addresses how consumers, producers, the private sector, international organizations, and governments can play an active role in innovating businesses to support a transitioning towards sustainable consumption and production. The book explores different approaches and innovations to address sustainable consumption and production. It details multiple social and economic contexts to the challenges and developments towards a sustainable consumption and production. The book is of interest to economists, students, businesses, and policymakers.

Chapter 14 and chapter 15 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Center for Sustainability Research, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden

    Ranjula Bali Swain, Susanne Sweet

About the editors

Ranjula Bali Swain is Visiting Professor and Research Director at Center for Sustainability Research (CSR) & Misum, Stockholm School of Economics and Professor of Economics, Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden. Her research focusses on sustainable development, environmental economics and development.

Susanne Sweet is Associate Professor and Research Director at Center for Sustainability Research, Stockholm School of Economics. Sweet’s research covers a broad range of topics on corporate sustainability and responsibility and she has for the past eight years been the research manager for a large cross disciplinary research program on circular fashion.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Sustainable Consumption and Production, Volume I

  • Book Subtitle: Challenges and Development

  • Editors: Ranjula Bali Swain, Susanne Sweet

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56371-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56370-7Published: 20 March 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56373-8Published: 20 March 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-56371-4Published: 19 March 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVI, 447

  • Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Environmental Economics, Development Economics, International Business, Economic Psychology

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