Sustainable consumption within a sustainable economy – beyond green growth and green economies

Lorek, Sylvia; Spangenberg, Joachim H.

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2013.08.045

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“…Living and progressing within these limits requires a different vision regarding prosperity and well-being. It challenges the need for continuous growth (Lorek and Spangenberg 2014) with its perverse incentives for a throwaway materialistic society. It calls for equitably allocating rights (i.e.…”

Section: Environmental Inclusivenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The literature on, and politics of, sustainable development shows that achieving strong sustainability, which implies no trade-offs between the economic, social and ecological goals, is rare; politics tend to make trade-offs in favour of the economy at the cost of social and ecological issues (Lorek and Spangenberg 2014). Furthermore, autonomous processes of globalization allocate resources through a poorly regulated market, resulting in a 'one dollar one vote' approach, rather than a 'one person one vote' system at the national level, or a 'one country one vote' system at the global level (Karabarbounis 2011;Stiglitz 2015;Piketty 2014).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Sustainable development goals and inclusive development

Gupta

Vegelin

2016

Int Environ Agreements

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Achieving sustainable development has been hampered by trade-offs in favour of economic growth over social well-being and ecological viability, which may also affect the sustainable development goals (SDGs) adopted by the member states of the United Nations. In contrast, the concept of inclusive development emphasizes the social, ecological and political dimensions of development. In this context, this paper addresses the question: What does inclusive development mean and to what extent is it taken into account in the framing of the SDGs? It presents inclusive development as having three key dimensions (social, ecological, and relational inclusiveness) with five principles each. This is applied to the 17 SDGs and their targets. The paper concludes that while the text on the SDGs fares quite well on social inclusiveness, it fares less well in respect to ecological and relational inclusiveness. This implies that there is a risk that implementation processes also focus more on social inclusiveness rather than on ecological and relational inclusiveness. Moreover, in order to de facto achieve social inclusiveness in the Anthropocene, it is critical that the latter two are given equal weight in the actual implementation process.

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Section: Environmental Inclusivenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainable development goals and inclusive development

Gupta

Vegelin

2016

Int Environ Agreements

565

313

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“…The principal causes of global warming are anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, which are in turn undesired outcomes of economic and population growth (IPCC, 2014) Ð particularly the former (UNEP, 2011;Lorek and Spangenberg, 2014). Economic growth has meant increasing demands for food, mobility, housing, and other goods and services (Latouche, [2007] 2009; Jackson, 2009).…”

Section: Ecological Damagementioning

confidence: 99%

“…This development, however, is now being confronted as ecosystems are setting limits to the expansion of economic activity (Rockstršm et al, 2009;Steffen et al, 2015). As regards material limits, stocks of non-renewable non-human resources are heading towards depletion, and renewable resources (such as forests and stocks of fish) are being consumed faster than they can renew (Lorek and Spangenberg, 2014). With regard to less tangible limits, again, the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration has been found to be too great and the global nitrogen cycle too disrupted to ensure a safe operating space for humanity and other species (Rockstršm et al, 2009;Steffen et al, 2015).…”

Section: Ecological Damagementioning

confidence: 99%

Degrowth by means of technology? A treatise for an ethos of releasement

Heikkurinen

2018

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Highlights¥ Technological practice cannot and does not let objects be. ¥ This leads to an increase in the cumulative matter/energy throughput. ¥ To achieve degrowth, throughput must reduce. ¥ Releasement of objects leads to a reduction in throughput. ¥ An ethos of releasement is needed to degrowth. AbstractThe large-scale ecological damage caused by growth societies calls for economic degrowth in terms of a radical decrease in matter/energy throughput. This article examines the role of modern technology in degrowth with a focus on the question of agency and its ethical implications. After conceptualising technology as practice, the paper finds that while technological practice encompasses an agency for social change, it is restricted to transforming the non-human world to human-made objects. This is because in technological practice the world and its objects unfold as a standing-reserve for human use. Due to this calculative and anthropocentric thinking, technological practice does not and cannot support the emergence of a kind of agency that either does or can let things be. Moreover, the more technological the practice, the more objects are utilised. The paper concludes that technological practice does not support the transition to degrowth, because it directs its agents towards the continuous transformation of non-human-made objects into humanmade objects resulting in an increase in cumulative throughput. The paper thus suggests that an ethos of releasement is needed to attain, as well as to live in, a degrowth society. The rationale provided for refraining from the technological practice in order to contribute to ecologically sensible social change is the chief contribution of this paper.

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“…Consumers reaction towards an advertisement depend on how they have comprehended the messages (Lorek & Spangenberg, 2014). Good for economy advertisement are those that motivate and influence consumers to new technology (Jung et al, 2016).…”

Section: Good For Economy and Attitudementioning

confidence: 99%

Consumer's Attitude towards Ramadan Advertising

Ansari¹,

Khalid²,

Jalees³

et al. 2017

SAJMS

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Advertising in the Ramadan is at peak in Pakistan and other Muslim countries. It now resembles other festival theme based advertising. In view of the lack of the studies on the issue, this study has adopted the constructs commonly used in measuring attitude towards advertising. The adopted questionnaire was administered to a population of 320, and the valid sample size was 303. After ascertaining normality, validity and reliability, initially overall model was tested through multiple regressions. Subsequently hypotheses were tested separately through simple regression. The study found that entertainment, information, credibility and good for economy and irritation positively influences consumers' attitude towards advertising. The study has validated all the results, except irritation. This relationship is positive in this study but is inconsistent to earlier studies that found negative relationship between irritation and attitude. Media industry will benefit from the finding of this study in developing right communication strategy on Ramadan Theme advertising. This study has not explored the effects of demographic factors and moderating effect of different media, which could be incorporated in future research.

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Sustainable consumption within a sustainable economy – beyond green growth and green economies

Cited by 503 publications

References 46 publications

Sustainable development goals and inclusive development

Sustainable development goals and inclusive development

Degrowth by means of technology? A treatise for an ethos of releasement

Consumer's Attitude towards Ramadan Advertising

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