Sustainable consumption and lifestyle change

Jackson, TD

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“…According to the environmental sociology and social psychology literature, there are many factors that affect the environmental behaviour of individuals, and the ways these factors interact are complex (Jackson, 2005; Kollmus & Agyeman, 2002). Models of people's behaviour fall into two categories: ‘internalist’ and ‘externalist’.…”

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Drama and Environment: Joining Forces to Engage Children and Young People in Environmental Education

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Aust. J. environ. educ.

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Engaging and exciting students about the environment remains a challenge in contemporary society, even while objective measures show the rapid state of the world's environment declining. To illuminate the integration of drama and environmental education as a means of engaging students in environmental issues, the work of performance companies Evergreen Theatre, Leapfish and Eaton Gorge Theatre Company, the ecological oratorio Plague and the Moonflower, and a school-based trial of playbuilding were examined through survey data and participant observations. These case studies employed drama in different ways -theatre-ineducation, play-building, and large-scale performance event. The four case studies provide quantitative and qualitative evidence for drama-based activities leading to an improvement in knowledge about the environment and understandings about the consequences of one's actions. In observing and participating in these case studies, we reflect that drama is a means of synthesising and presenting scientific research in ways that are creative and multi-layered, and which excite students, helping maintain their attention and facilitating their engagement.

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Drama and Environment: Joining Forces to Engage Children and Young People in Environmental Education

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Aust. J. environ. educ.

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“…Evidence from the work of social anthropologists shows that the complex reality of the respondents’ lives does not always allow them to live up to their intentions and values (Dixon & Isaacs, ; Dyen & Sirieix, ; Evans, ; Jackson, ). Respondents are still, in spite of their disaffection with supermarkets, embedded in a consumerist culture made up of loyalty to brands, the desire for choice and the orthodox notion of being a “good, or savvy, consumer” (Evans, , p. 113; Dubuisson‐Quellier et al, ).…”

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Moving towards ecologically sustainable diets: Lessons from an Italian box delivery scheme

Mattioni

Caraher

2018

Int J Consumer Studies

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Conscious of the nutritional failings of the current food systems, there has been a call in the last decade or so to move beyond sustainable consumption and towards sustainable diets defined as healthy diets that also optimize the environment, food quality, socio‐cultural values, the economy and governance. Previous studies have shown how local food initiatives can lead to greater levels of sustainable consumption and healthier diets and have focused on the key role played by the conscious‐consumer. Analysing various types of local food initiatives—from community‐oriented to more private‐run activities—they have described the processes that local food initiatives set in motion to empower conscious‐consumers and to ultimately change habits and routines. Taking the specific case of a business‐oriented box delivery scheme in Italy, the article sheds further light on the mechanisms that enable clients to consume in more sustainable and healthier ways, with a central role played by learning, commitment and empowerment. Obstacles however exist in the form of the way people's everyday lives are structured, and the competing values that people draw upon in making their food choices. Support is therefore needed from public institutions to make it easier for people to choose healthier and more sustainable food provisioning systems.

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“…By contrast, it is argued that sociology and social theory has only belatedly contributed to an attempt to understand the role of human behavior in both reproducing and potentially overcoming environmental crisis (Kasper, 2009;Shove, 2010). However, a substantial level of theory and research is now emerging in these fields that significantly overlaps with ecopsychological concerns (e.g., Beck, 2010;Davis, 2010;Jackson, 2008;Kasper, 2009;Lertzman, 2012;Shove, 2010). This work arguably extends our understanding of the social dimension of human-nonhuman nature connectedness and ecological degradation.…”

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A Social Engagement: How Ecopsychology Can Benefit From Dialogue With the Social Sciences

Adams¹

2012

Ecopsychology

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The argument put forward in this paper is that ecopsychology would benefit from engaging in more dialogue with developments in the social sciences. The benefits are predominantly in terms of enriching ecopsychological understandings of how we might encourage connectedness to nature and environmental advocacy and discourage environmentally distructive behaviors. More particularly, recent work in the social sciences asserts that existing models of behavior are unlikely to lead to changes on the scale necessary to create something akin to genuinely sustainable societies. The article draws on theory and research emphasizing the irreducible relationship between the psychological and the social, as a basis for better understanding the apparent obstinacy of environmentally destructive behavior and for interventions that offer the hope of change.. any attempt to develop a sustainable society has to understand how the relationships between individuals and their social contexts can be changed. (Uzzell & Räthzel, 2009, p. 340) T here have been numerous recent attempts to comprehensively survey dominant themes in ecopsychology and related psychologies of the environment (e.g., Paidas, 2011;Thompson, 2009). These reviews provide an invaluable guide to how human and nonhuman nature relationships, including those at the core of ecological degradation, are understood across a broad disciplinary base. However, this article looks beyond psychology to developments elsewhere in the social sciences. It is argued that we find there a rapidly developing account of topics relevant to ecopsychologists, not least novel conceptualizations of the role of human behavior and experience in environmental problems and solutions. The paper offers brief outlines of various attempts to theorize social practices as a basic unit of analysis, rather than individual behavior, and related implications for bringing about effective personal and social change in the direction of sustainability. In conclusion, it is argued that ecopsychology can benefit by engaging with contemporary conceptualizations of the way the social is mutually implicated in individual behavior and experience.

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Sustainable consumption and lifestyle change

Cited by 12 publications

References 1,130 publications

Drama and Environment: Joining Forces to Engage Children and Young People in Environmental Education

Drama and Environment: Joining Forces to Engage Children and Young People in Environmental Education

Moving towards ecologically sustainable diets: Lessons from an Italian box delivery scheme

A Social Engagement: How Ecopsychology Can Benefit From Dialogue With the Social Sciences

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