Consumption corridors : living a good life within sustainable limits /: living a good life within sustainable limits. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Doris Fuchs [and six others].
• Authors: Fuchs, Doris A; Sahakian, Marlyne; Gumbert, Tobias; Di Giulio, Antonietta; Maniates, Michael; Lorek, Sylvia; Graf, Antonia
• Contents: 1. Living Well Within Limits 2. Our Vision: The Good Life But what is a good life? Focusing on needs Slipping through our fingers Can we be responsible for a good life for others? 3. Consumption Corridors as a Vehicle to Pursue the Good Life The idea Limits are already out there What kind of processes are needed? Getting started and building momentum 4. What’s Stopping Us? Limits to the salvation potential of technological innovation Limits to efficiency and markets as solutions Limits to consumer sovereignty and responsibility No limits to freedom in democratic societies? Shedding myths in pursuit of social change 5. Visionary Change: Corridors as a Pathway to the Good Life Annex 1: Needs Annex 2: Indicators of Quality of Life Annex 3: Estimates of upper and lower sustainable limits in floor space
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 339.47; Consumption (Economics) -- Environmental aspects; Social justice; Social change; Quality of life
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000389463; 9781000389432; 9780367748746
• Related ISBNs: 9780367748722
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