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Vocabulary for Sustainable Consumption and Lifestyles
: A Language for Our Common Future
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- Introduction 1 Consumerism 2 Household Income Versus Carbon Footprint 3 Conspicuous/Positional Consumption 4 Hedonic Treadmill 5 Choice Paralysis 6 Generational Consumption Differences (in China) 7 Gender 8 Attitude-Behavior Gap 9 Behavior Change 10 Energy Consumption Behavior 11 Repair 12 Fast Fashion 13 Moments of Change 14 Quiet Sustainability 15 Voluntary Simplicity 16 Mindfulness 17 Work-Life Balance 18 1.5-Degree Lifestyles
- Introduction 19 Freedom of Choice 20 Social Practice Theory 21 Rebound Effects 22 Moral Licensing 23 Risk Perception 24 Living Labs 25 Convivial Technology 26 Beauty 27 Stocks Versus Flows 28 Food Miles 29 Sufficiency 30 Consumption Corridors 31 Fair Consumption Space 32 Social Tipping Points
- Introduction 33 Political Economy of Consumerism 34 Consumer Scapegoatism 35 Energy Overshoot 36 Carbon Inequality 37 The Role of Business 38 Money 39 Climate Justice 40 Ecosocial Contract 41 Ecological Economics 42 Well-being Economy 43 Foundational Economy 44 Steady-State Economy 45 Doughnut Economics 46 Degrowth 47 Sustainable Finance 48 Sharing Economy 49 Circular Economy and Society
- Introduction 50 Alternative Hedonism 51 Well-being and Life Satisfaction Versus Income 52 Spiritual Consumption 53 Values and Consumption 54 Buen Vivir and Buenos Convivires 55 Ubuntu 56 Education for Sustainable Consumption 57 Social Norms 58 Consumer-Citizen 59 Social Movements 60 Subvertising 61 Boycotts and Buycotts 62 Green Parenting 63 Grassroots Innovation 64 Prosumerism 65 Alternative Consumer Cooperatives 66 Community Supported Agriculture 67 Fair Trade 68 Food Sovereignty 69 Eco-Communities
- Introduction 70 Product-Service Systems 71 Universal Basic Services 72 Urban Planning and Spatial Allocation 73 Sustainable Housing 74 Sustainable Mobility 75 Protein Shift 76 Choice Editing 77 Green Nudging 78 Ecolabeling 79 Advertising 80 Greenwashing 81 Ecodesign 82 Extended Producer Responsibility 83 Product Returns and Right of Withdrawal 84 Information and Communication Technology 85 Consumption-Based Accounting 86 Personal Carbon Allowance 87 Co-Benefits of Climate Policy
Knowledge Network Editors Authors Contact The Book Link to publishers page Preface Intro Afterword Endorsements

Adrian Smith

Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, United Kingdom

Adrian Smith

Aitor Marcos

University of the Basque Country, Spain

Aitor Marcos

Aleksandra Burgiel-Szewc

University of Economics in Katowice, Poland

Aleksandra Burgiel-Szewc

Alessandro Tavoni

Economics Department, University of Bologna, Italy

Alessandro Tavoni

Amy Isham

Sustainable Wellbeing Research Group, Swansea University, Wales

Amy Isham

Ana Rita Farias

Lusófona University, HEI‐Lab: Digital Human‐Environment Interaction Labs, Portugal

Ana Rita Farias

Anders Hayden

Department of Political Science at Dalhousie University, Canada

Anders Hayden

Andrew M.M. Reeves

Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University, United Kingdom & International Ecological Footprint Learning Lab

Andrew M.M. Reeves

Angela Druckman

University of Surrey, United Kingdom

Angela Druckman

Anna Horodecka

Institute of International Economic Policy, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland

Anna Horodecka

Beyza Oba

Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey

Beyza Oba

Bianca Stumbitz

Centre for Enterprise, Environment and Development Research (CEEDR), United Kingdom

Bianca Stumbitz

Birgit Teufer

Department of Business & Psychology, FERNFH University of Applied Sciences, Austria

Birgit Teufer

Brett Dolter

Department of Economics, University of Regina, Canada

Brett Dolter

Daniel Fischer

Leuphana University, Lüneburg

Daniel Fischer

Diana Ivanova

School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, United Kingdom

Diana Ivanova

Dominik Wiedenhofer

Institute of Social Ecology (SEC), Department of Economics and Social Sciences, BOKU University, Austria

Dominik Wiedenhofer

Donna Lybecker

Idaho State University, United States of America

Donna Lybecker

Eleftheria Lekakis

Faculty of Media, Arts, and Humanities, University of Sussex, United Kingdom

Eleftheria Lekakis

Eva Alfredsson

Uppsala University, Sweden

Eva Alfredsson

Fabián Echegaray

Market Analysis

Fabián Echegaray

Fatemeh Jouzi

Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology

Fatemeh Jouzi

Georgina Guillen-Hanson

Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences. Research Center for Gameful Realities – Gamification Group, Tampere University, Finland

Georgina Guillen-Hanson

Halina Szejnwald Brown

Halina Szejnwald Brown

Jacob Gordon

Harvard Kennedy School of Government, United States of America

Jacob Gordon

Jared Berry Fitzgerald

Oklahoma State University, United States of America

Jared Berry Fitzgerald

Jennie C. Stephens

Irish ICARUS Climate Research Centre, Maynooth University, Ireland

Jennie C. Stephens

Jenny Pickerill

School of Geography and Planning, University of Shefflied, United Kingdom

Jenny Pickerill

Jessica Stubenrauch

Department of Environmental and Planning Law, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany

Jessica Stubenrauch

Jihoon Min

International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria

Jihoon Min

Joachim H. Spangenberg

Juelich Research Centre & co-chairs the Steering Committee of the Ecosystem Services Partnership, Germany

Joachim H. Spangenberg

Johann M. Majer

Department of Social, Organizational, and Economic Psychology, University of Hildesheim, Germany

Johann M. Majer

Jukka Heinonen

Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Iceland

Jukka Heinonen

Julia Backhaus

Living Labs Incubator of RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Julia Backhaus

Kristof Rubens

Department of Environment & Spatial Development of the Flemish Government, Belgium

Kristof Rubens

Laura Maria Wallnöfer

Sustainable Consumer Research Group, Institute of Marketing and Innovation, BOKU University, Austria

Laura Maria Wallnöfer

Lei Zhang

Environmental Policy Group at Wageningen University, Netherlands & Environment at Renmin University of China, China

Lei Zhang

Lewis Akenji

Hot or Cool Institute, Germany

Lewis Akenji

Lindsay Naylor

Department of Geography & Spatial Sciences, University of Delaware, USA

Lindsay Naylor

Luca Coscieme

Hot or Cool Institute, Germany

Luca Coscieme

Lucia A. Reisch

El-Erian Institute for Behavioural Economics and Policy at Cambridge Judge Business School, United Kingdom

Lucia A. Reisch

Magnus Bengtsson

Hot or Cool Institute, Germany

Magnus Bengtsson

Maike Demandt

Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy

Maike Demandt

Maike Gossen

Technological University Berlin, Germany

Maike Gossen

Manu V. Mathai

WRI India

Manu V. Mathai

Marc Dijk

Maastricht Sustainability Institute, The Netherlands

Marc Dijk

Martin Calisto Friant

Circle Economy Foundation & University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Martin Calisto Friant

Max Schoepen

University of Antwerp, Belgium

Max Schoepen

Megan Egler

DegrowUS & University of Victoria, Canada

Megan Egler

Melanie Jaeger-Erben

Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany

Melanie Jaeger-Erben

Nina Szczygiel

GOVCOPP, DEGEIT, University of Aveiro, Portugal

Nina Szczygiel

Noel Cass

Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds, United Kingdom

Noel Cass

Oksana Mont

International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE), Lund University, Sweden

Oksana Mont

Panayiota Alevizou

Management School, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

Panayiota Alevizou

Patrick Elf

Centre for Enterprise, Environment and Development Research (CEEDR), United Kingdom

Patrick Elf

Peter Berrill

Industrial Ecology department (CML-IE), Leiden University, Netherlands

Peter Berrill

Petr Jehlička

Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republik

Petr Jehlička

Philip J Vergragt

Philip J Vergragt

Robert Orzanna

Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative (SCORAI)

Robert Orzanna

Saamah Abdallah

Hot or Cool Institute, Germany

Saamah Abdallah

Shahzad Khan Durrani

School of Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, China

Shahzad Khan Durrani

Stephan Wallaschkowski

Leuphana University, Lüneburg & Bochum University of Applied Sciences, Germany, SCORAI and Future Earth Working Group on Sustainable Consumption Communication

Stephan Wallaschkowski

Tamar Makov

Department of Management and School for Sustainability and Climate Change, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Tamar Makov

Thomas S.J. Smith

Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative (SCORAI)

Thomas S.J. Smith

Thomas Webler

Social and Environmental Research Institute, United States of America

Thomas Webler

Tina Fawcett

Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute, United Kingdom

Tina Fawcett

Ulf Schrader

Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

Ulf Schrader

Vanessa Timmer

OneEarth Living & Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, Netherlands including the Urban Futures Studio & Pathways to Sustainability.

Vanessa Timmer

Veronica Pizziol

Economics Department, University of Bologna, Italy

Veronica Pizziol

Viivi Toivio

Hot or Cool Institute, Germany

Viivi Toivio

Wenling Liu

School of Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, China

Wenling Liu

William E. Rees

School of Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia, Canada

William E. Rees

Yael Parag

School of Sustainability, Reichman University, Israel

Yael Parag

Yulin Zhu

School of Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, China

Yulin Zhu

Zeynep Özsoy

School of Business, Altınbaş University, Turkey

Zeynep Özsoy

Alberto Acosta

University of Cologne, Germany

Ana Maria Soares

School of Economics, and Management and Political Science & iBMS – Centre for Research in Business, Markets & Society, University of Minho, Portugal

Anna Coote

New Economics Foundation (NEF)

Antonietta Di Giulio

Department of Social Sciences, University of Basel, Switzerland

Arnold Tukker

Industrial Ecology at the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), Leiden University, Netherlands

Beatriz Barros

Indiana University, Bloomington, United States of America

Benedikt Schmid

Chair of Geography of Global Change, University of Freiburg, Germany

Bernd Bonfert

Department of Territories and Sustainable Development, EM Normandie Business School, France

Callie Dance

Idaho State University, United States of America

Caroline Zimm

International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria

Claudia E. Henninger

Department of Materials, University of Manchester, United Kingdom

Doris Fuchs

Research Institute for Sustainability (RIFS), GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany & University of Münster, Germany

Duncan Crowley

European Network for Community-Led Initiatives

Edina Vadovics

GreenDependent Institute, Hungary

Elena Dawkins

University of Surrey, United Kingdom

Erik Assadourian

Worldwatch Institute

Erik Mathijs

SFERE (Sustainable Food Economies Research Group) & Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven, Belgium

Giovanna Micarelli

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana of Bogotá, Colombia

Heli Hallikainen

Business School of the University of Eastern Finland, Finland

Ian Gough

CASE (Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion)G & Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics, United Kingdom

Ian Hamilton

United States Bahá’í community

Jared Starr

Energy Transition Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States of America

Jarkko Levänen

Lappeenranta–Lahti University of Technology, Finland

Jennifer D. Russell

Department of Sustainable Biomaterials at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, United States of America

Jessika Luth Richter

International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE), Lund University, Sweden

Jiayu Huang

Boston College, United States of America

John de Graaf

Filmmaker, United States of America and Europe

John Mulrow

DegrowUS & Degrowth Institute & Purdue University, United States of America

John Thøgersen

Department of Management, Aarhus University, Denmark

Joseph Koetsier

Groningen University, the Netherlands

Juho Hamari

Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences. Research Center for Gameful Realities – Gamification Group. Tampere University, Finland

Karine Van Doorsselaer

Department Product Development of the University of Antwerp, Belgium

Katarzyna Stasiuk

Institute of Applied Psychology, Jagiellonian University Krakow, Poland

Kate Burningham

Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, UK

Kate Soper

Institute for the Study of European Transformations, London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom

Katia Dayan Vladimirova

Post Growth Fashion Agency & University of Geneva, Switzerland

Kuishuang Feng

Department of Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park, United States of America

Lassi Linnanen

Lappeenranta–Lahti University of Technology, Finland

Lindsay Barbieri

DegrowUS & Global Land Programme at the University of Maryland College Park, United States of America

Lisa Mastny

OneEarth Living

Lorraine Whitmarsh

Department of Psychology, University of Bath, UK Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations (CAST), Bath’s Institute of Sustainability and Climate Change

Lucie Sovová

Rural Sociology Group of Wageningen University, The Netherlands

Mariëlle Feenstra

75inQ, Institute on Gender and Energy, Netherlands

Marlyne Sahakian

Environmental Governance and Territorial Development, University of Geneva

Marta Santos Silva

Research Centre for Justice and Governance, University of Minho, Portugal

Mary Greene

Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

Mikael Malmaeus

IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, Sweden

Mirja Mikkilä

Department of Forest Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland

Nannan Xi

Faculty of Management and Business, Research Center for Gameful Realities – XR-Economies Lab. Tampere University, Finnland

Nilo Coradini de Freitas

American University of Paris

Raquel Rebouças

Federal Institute of Paraiba, Brazil

Rens van Tilburg

Sustinnova & Dutch academic think tank Sustainable Finance Lab

Richard Bärnthaler

Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) and Economics and Policy for Sustainability Research Group, University of Leeds, United Kingdom

Rico Defila

Department of Social Sciences, University of Basel, Switzerland

Roberto Falanga

University La Sapienza of Rome, Italy

Roxana Bobulescu

Grenoble Ecole de Management, France

Sahra Svensson-Hoglund

Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, United States of America

Sam Bliss

DegrowUS & Food Not Bombs Burlington & Rock Point Commons & University of Vermont, United States of America

Soumyajit Bhar

School of Liberal Studies, BML Munjal University, India

Stephan Lorenz

Institute of sociology, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany

Susan Paulson

Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida, United States of America

Sylvia Lorek

Sustainable Europe Research Institute, Germany

Teresa Heath

University of Minho, Portugal

Teresa Marat-Mendes

ISCTE-IUL, the Department of Architecture and Urbanism

Tessa Avermaete

Run and Harvest

Timothy de Waal Malefyt

Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University, United States of America

Valerie Brachya

Tel Aviv University, Israel

Vuyiswa Lamfiti

Ubuchule Resource Centre NPC

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