1.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIASUN0054749

Titolo

Revue trimestrielle des droits de l'homme

Pubbl/distr/stampa

volumi ; 22 cm

ISSN

0777-3579

Edizione

[1(1990)-]

Descrizione fisica

Continuazione di: Revue des droits de l'homme.

Disciplina

341.4805

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910963166903321

Titolo

Confronting consumption / / edited by Thomas Princen, Michael Maniates, and Ken Conca

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2002

ISBN

9786612100062

9781282100060

1282100068

9780262281928

0262281929

9780585442655

0585442657

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (393 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PrincenThomas <1951->

ManiatesMichael

ConcaKen

Disciplina

339.4/7

Soggetti

Consumption (Economics) - Environmental aspects

Environmental policy

Sustainable development

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

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

Contributors Index

Sommario/riassunto

Essays that offer ecological, social, and political perspectives on the problem of overconsumption.