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    Consumption, status, and sustainability : ecological and anthropological perspectives (2021)
    Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,
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    almahu_9949120625002882
    Format: 1 online resource (xii, 349 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).
    ISBN: 9781108874441 (ebook)
    Series Statement: New directions in sustainability and society
    Content: This volume addresses current concerns about the climate and environmental sustainability by exploring one of the key drivers of contemporary environmental problems: the role of status competition in generating what we consume, and what we throw away, to the detriment of the planet. Across time and space, humans have pursued social status in many different ways - through ritual purity, singing or dancing, child-bearing, bodily deformation, even headhunting. In many of the world's most consumptive societies, however, consumption has become closely tied to how individuals build and communicate status. Given this tight link, people will be reluctant to reduce consumption levels - and environmental impact -- and forego their ability to communicate or improve their social standing. Drawing on cross-cultural and archaeological evidence, this book asks how a stronger understanding of the links between status and consumption across time, space, and culture might bend the curve towards a more sustainable future.
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Jul 2021).
    Additional Edition: Print version: ISBN 9781108836043
    Language: English
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108874441
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  • 2
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    Sustainability in the global city : myth and practice (2015)
    Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,
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    almahu_9947413869402882
    Format: 1 online resource (xix, 404 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).
    ISBN: 9781139923316 (ebook)
    Series Statement: New directions in sustainability and society
    Content: Cities play a pivotal but paradoxical role in the future of our planet. As world leaders and citizens grapple with the consequences of growth, pollution, climate change, and waste, urban sustainability has become a ubiquitous catchphrase and a beacon of hope. Yet, we know little about how the concept is implemented in daily life - particularly with regard to questions of social justice and equity. This volume provides a unique and vital contribution to ongoing conversations about urban sustainability by looking beyond the promises, propaganda, and policies associated with the concept in order to explore both its mythic meanings and the practical implications in a variety of everyday contexts. The authors present ethnographic studies from cities in eleven countries and six continents. Each chapter highlights the universalized assumptions underlying interpretations of sustainability while elucidating the diverse and contradictory ways in which people understand, incorporate, advocate for, and reject sustainability in the course of their daily lives.
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). , Introduction Melissa Checker, Gary McDonogh and Cindy Isenhour; Part I. Building the Myth: Branding the Green Global City: 1. 'We're not that kind of developing country': environmental awareness in contemporary China Jennifer Hubbert; 2. Green capitals reconsidered Cindy Isenhour; Snapshot 1. Transparency, consumerism, and governmentality: lessons from a very small place Gary McDonogh; 3. Going green?: washing stones in world-class Delhi Varsha Patel; Part II. Planning, Design, and Sustainability in the Wake of Crisis: 4. 'The sustainability edge': the postcrisis promise of eco-city branding Miriam Greenberg; Snapshot 2. Developing sustainable visions for post-catastrophe communities Daniel Slone; 5. 'I've got a house but no room for my hammock': the tragedy of the commons; or, another common tragedy among the Aiu of Sinamaica, Venezuela Ana Servigna and Ali; Fernandez; 6. Green is the new brown: 'old school toxics' and environmental gentrification on a New York City waterfront Melissa Checker; Snapshot 3. Producing sustainable futures in post-genocide Kigali, Rwanda Samuel Shearer; Part III. Everyday Engagements with Urbanity and 'Nature': 7. Whose urban forest?: The political ecology of gathering urban nontimber forest products Patrick Hurley, Marla R. Emery, Rebecca McLain, Melissa Poe, Brian Grabbatin and Cari Goetcheus; Snapshot 4. One man's trash Brad Rogers; 8. Shopping on Main Street: a model of a community-based food economy Kathleen Bubinas; 9. Spokespeople for a mute nature: the case of the Villa Rodrigo Bueno in Buenos Aires Mari;a Carman; Part IV. Cities Divided: Urban Intensification, Neoliberalism, and Urban Activism: 10. Combining sustainability and social justice in the Paris metropolitan region Francois Mancebo; 11. Shifting gears: the intersections of race and sustainability in Memphis Matthew Farr, Keri Brondo and Scout Anglin; 12. Can human infrastructure combat green gentrification?: Ethnographic research on bicycling in Los Angeles and Seattle Adonia Lugo; 13. Urban sustainability as a 'boundary object': interrogating discourses of urban intensification in Ottawa Donald Leffers; 14. Learning 'just' sustainability: a collaboration between the Preserve East Austin Affordability Campaign and the frontiers of geography class Eliot Tretter; Snapshot 5. After sustainability: Barcelona in a time of crisis Gary McDonogh; Afterword Alf Hornborg.
    Additional Edition: Print version: ISBN 9781107076280
    Language: English
    Keywords: Electronic books
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139923316
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  • 3
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    Power and politics in sustainable consumption research and practice / (2019)
    Abingdon, Oxon ; : Routledge,
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    Format: 1 online resource
    ISBN: 9781315165509 , 1315165503 , 9781351677301 , 1351677306 , 9781351677295 , 1351677292 , 9781351677318 , 1351677314
    Series Statement: Routledge studies in sustainable consumption
    Content: With growing awareness of environmental deterioration, atmospheric pollution and resource depletion, the last several decades have brought increased attention and scrutiny to global consumption levels. However, there are significant and well documented limitations associated with current efforts to encourage more sustainable consumption patterns, ranging from informational and time constraints to the highly individualizing effect of market-based participation. This volume, featuring essays solicited from experts engaged in sustainable consumption research from around the world, presents empirical and theoretical illustrations of the various means through which politics and power influence (un)sustainable consumption practices, policies and perspectives. With chapters on compelling topics including collective action, behaviour-change and the transition movement, the authors discuss why current efforts have largely failed to meet environmental targets and explore promising directions for research, policy and practice. Featuring contributions that will help the reader open up politics and power in ways that are accessible and productive and bridge the gaps with current approaches to sustainable consumption, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of sustainable consumption and the politics of sustainability.
    Note: Introduction : power, politics and unsustainable consumption / Lucie Middlemiss, Cindy Isenhour, Mari Martiskainen -- A consuming globalism : on power and the post-Paris Agreement politics of climate and consumption / Cindy Isenhour -- Practice does not make perfect : sustainable consumption, practice theory and the question of power / Dennis Soron -- Sources of power for sustainable consumption : where to look / Doris Fuchs, Sylvia Lorek, Antonietta Di Giulio, Rico Defila -- Pro-environmental behaviour change and governmentality : counter-conduct and the making up of environmental individuals / Tom Hargreaves -- Freedom, autonomy and sustainable behaviours : the politics of designing consumer choice / Tobias Gumbert -- The "double dividend" discourse in sustainable consumption : a critical commentary / Lucie Middlemiss, David Wingate and Anna Wesselink -- Housing as a function of consumption and production in the United Kingdom / Mari Martiskainen -- Power and politics in the (work-life) balance : a mixed methods evaluation of the risks and rewards of downshifting / Jacob Hammond & Emily Huddart Kennedy -- Who participates in community-based sustainable consumption projects and why does it matter? : a constructively critical approach / Manisha Anantharaman, Emily Huddart Kennedy, Lucie Middlemiss and Sarah Bradbury.
    Additional Edition: Print version: Power and politics in sustainable consumption research and practice. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019 ISBN 9781138056206
    Language: English
    Keywords: Electronic books. ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books
    DOI: 10.4324/9781315165509
    URL: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315165509
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    Sustainability in the global city : myth and practice (2015)
    New York, NY :Cambridge Univ. Press,
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    UID:
    almahu_BV042332112
    Format: XIX, 404 S. : , Ill., Kt.
    Edition: 1. publ.
    ISBN: 978-1-107-07628-0 , 978-1-107-43172-0
    Series Statement: New directions in sustainability and society
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    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-139-92331-6
    Language: English
    Subjects: Engineering , Geography , Ethnology
    RVK:
    RB 10633
    RVK:
    LB 70000
    RVK:
    LB 73000
    RVK:
    RB 10915
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    RB 10909
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    RB 10627
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    ZH 9150
    Keywords: Großstadt ; Stadtökologie ; Großstadt ; Kommunalpolitik ; Handel ; Stadtentwicklung ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Großstadt ; Stadtentwicklung ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    URL: Cover
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    Consumption, status, and sustainability : ecological and anthropological perspectives (2021)
    Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,
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    almahu_BV047437261
    Format: xii, 349 Seiten : , Illustrationen.
    ISBN: 978-1-108-83604-3
    Series Statement: New directions in sustainability and society
    Language: German
    Subjects: Ethnology
    RVK:
    LC 10000
    RVK:
    LC 51000
    Keywords: Verbraucherverhalten ; Verbrauch ; Hierarchie ; Umweltschaden ; Überproduktion ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Aufsatzsammlung
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    Ethical Consumption : Social Value and Economic Practice (2012)
    New York; : Berghahn Books,
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    edocfu_9960889717402883
    Format: 1 online resource (246 p.)
    ISBN: 9780857453433
    Content: Increasingly, consumers in North America and Europe see their purchasing as a way to express to the commercial world their concerns about trade justice, the environment and similar issues. This ethical consumption has attracted growing attention in the press and among academics. Extending beyond the growing body of scholarly work on the topic in several ways, this volume focuses primarily on consumers rather than producers and commodity chains. It presents cases from a variety of European countries and is concerned with a wide range of objects and types of ethical consumption, not simply the usual tropical foodstuffs, trade justice and the system of fair trade. Contributors situate ethical consumption within different contexts, from common Western assumptions about economy and society, to the operation of ethical-consumption commerce, to the ways that people’s ethical consumption can affect and be affected by their social situation. By locating consumers and their practices in the social and economic contexts in which they exist and that their ethical consumption affects, this volume presents a compelling interrogation of the rhetoric and assumptions of ethical consumption.
    Note: Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , Preface -- , Introduction -- , Section I. Producers and Consumers -- , Introduction -- , 1. Good Chocolate? An Examination of Ethical Consumption in Cocoa -- , 2. Consuming Producers: Fair Trade and Small Farmers -- , 3. ‘Trade, not aid’: Imagining Ethical Economy -- , 4. ‘Today, one can farm organic without living organic’: Belgian Farmers and Recent Changes in Organic Farming -- , Section II. Ethical Consumption Contexts -- , Introduction -- , 5. Narratives of Concern: Beyond the ‘Official’ Discourse of Ethical Consumption in Hungary -- , 6. Critical Consumption in Palermo: Imagined Society, Class and Fractured Locality -- , 7. On the Challenges of Signalling Ethics without the Stuff: Tales of Conspicuous Green Anti-consumption -- , 8. Ethical Consumption as Religious Testimony: The Quaker Case -- , 9. Re-inventing Food: The Ethics of Developing Local Food -- , Conclusion -- , Notes on Contributors -- , Index , In English.
    Language: English
    Subjects: Philosophy
    RVK:
    CC 7262
    DOI: 10.1515/9780857453433
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857453433
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780857453433
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    Consumption, status, and sustainability : ecological and anthropological perspectives (2021)
    Cambridge, United Kingdom :Cambridge University Press,
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    almahu_BV047448234
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 349 Seiten) : , Illustrationen.
    ISBN: 978-1-108-87444-1
    Series Statement: New directions in sustainability and society
    Content: This volume addresses current concerns about the climate and environmental sustainability by exploring one of the key drivers of contemporary environmental problems: the role of status competition in generating what we consume, and what we throw away, to the detriment of the planet. Across time and space, humans have pursued social status in many different ways - through ritual purity, singing or dancing, child-bearing, bodily deformation, even headhunting. In many of the world's most consumptive societies, however, consumption has become closely tied to how individuals build and communicate status. Given this tight link, people will be reluctant to reduce consumption levels - and environmental impact -- and forego their ability to communicate or improve their social standing. Drawing on cross-cultural and archaeological evidence, this book asks how a stronger understanding of the links between status and consumption across time, space, and culture might bend the curve towards a more sustainable future
    Note: "The project gained momentum when the Wenner-Gren Foundation sponsored a workshop, “Status Pursuits across Human Systems,” at the University of Maine that brought together a group of distinguished archaeologists and anthropologists in October 2016 to discuss the issue against a background of environmental sustainability more generally." (Preface)
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-1-108-83604-3
    Language: English
    Subjects: Ethnology
    RVK:
    LC 10000
    RVK:
    LC 51000
    Keywords: Verbraucherverhalten ; Verbrauch ; Hierarchie ; Umweltschaden ; Überproduktion ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung
    DOI: 10.1017/9781108874441
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