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Title Enabling Sustainable Production-Consumption Systems
ID_Doc 79444
Authors Lebel, L; Lorek, S
Title Enabling Sustainable Production-Consumption Systems
Year 2008
Published
DOI 10.1146/annurev.environ.33.022007.145734
Abstract The pursuit of sustainability in particular places and sectors often unravels at the edges. Efforts to tackle environmental problems in one place shift them somewhere else or are overwhelmed by external changes in drivers. Gains in energy efficiency of-appliances used in houses ire offset by greater total numbers or compensating changes in patterns of use. Analytical perspectives and practical initiatives, which treat production and consumption jointly, ire needed to complement experiences and efforts with sector-, place-, product- and consumer-oriented approaches. There is now a growing body of scholarship exploring a diverse range of initiatives and experiments aimed at enabling sustainable production-consumption systems (PCSs). Different approaches make divergent assumptions about market institutions, government regulation, sociotechnical innovation, and actor partnerships. From this body of work flow useful insights for others who would engage, for example, in redesigning relationships around services rather than products or between third world producers and first world consumers in fair trade initiatives.
Author Keywords innovation; markets; partnership; regulation; sustainable
Index Keywords Index Keywords
Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Book Citation Index – Social Sciences & Humanities (BKCI-SSH); Book Citation Index – Science (BKCI-S); Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED); Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)
EID WOS:000261379200013
WoS Category Environmental Sciences; Environmental Studies
Research Area Environmental Sciences & Ecology
PDF https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev.environ.33.022007.145734
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