UID:
almafu_9960950832702883
Format:
1 online resource (393 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9786612100062
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9781282100060
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1282100068
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9780262281928
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0262281929
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9780585442655
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0585442657
Content:
Essays that offer ecological, social, and political perspectives on the problem of overconsumption.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Contents ; Preface; 1 - Confronting Consumption ; I - The Consumption Angle; 2 - Consumption and Its Externalities: Where Economy Meets Ecology ; 3 - Individualization: Plant a Tree, Buy a Bike, Save the World?; 4 - Commoditization: Consumption Efficiency and an Economy of Care and Connection ; II - Chains of Consumption; 5 - Distancing: Consumption and the Severing of Feedback; 6 - Consumption and Environment in a Global Economy; 7 - The Distancing of Waste: Overconsumption in a Global Economy
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8 - Environmentally Damaging Consumption: The Impact of American Markets on Tropical Ecosystems in the Twentieth CenturyIII - On the Ground ; 9 - In Search of Consumptive Resistance: The Voluntary Simplicity Movement ; 10 - Jamming Culture: Adbusters' Hip Media Campaign against Consumerism ; 11 - Think Globally, Transact Locally: The Local- Currency Movement and Green Political Economy ; 12 - Caveat Certificatum: The Case of Forest Certification ; 13 - Citizens or Consumers: The Home Power Movement as a New Practice of Technology ; 14 - Conclusion: To Confront Consumption ; Notes
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Contributors Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780262162081
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0262162083
Language:
English
