Confronting consumption / / edited by Thomas Princen, Michael Maniates, and Ken Conca
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| Titolo: |
Confronting consumption / / edited by Thomas Princen, Michael Maniates, and Ken Conca
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2002 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (393 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 339.4/7 |
| Soggetto topico: | Consumption (Economics) - Environmental aspects |
| Environmental policy | |
| Sustainable development | |
| Altri autori: |
PrincenThomas <1951->
ManiatesMichael
ConcaKen
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| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Confronting consumption |
| ISBN: | 1-282-10006-8 |
| 9786612100062 | |
| 0-262-28192-9 | |
| 0-585-44265-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910828598103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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