Concepts, Frameworks, and Applied Theories

Cluster II captures core concepts, frameworks, and applied theories to understand sustainable consumption and lifestyles and intervention points for triggering and leveraging transformative change. It begins by examining how individual agency is shaped by social and material structures in 19 Freedom of Choice; and,in 20 Social Practice Theory, by framing individual behavior as part of socially shared practices comprising materials, meanings, and competences It then highlights  unintended processes  that shape outcomes to explain why wellmeant actions can backfire or stall: 21 Rebound Effects, 22 Moral Licencing, and 23 Risk Perception.

The cluster translates these insights into design, testing, and assessment tools: 24 Living Labs enable usercentered, reallife cocreation and evaluation; 25 Convivial Technology and 26 Beauty highlight how autonomy, repairability, simplicity, and aesthetic usher in  lowimpact choices. Impact lenses—27 Stocks versus Flows and 28 Food Miles—highlight the  interventions that yield durable benefits and how to contextualize supplychain distance. Finally, 29 Sufficiency, 30 Consumption Corridors, and 31 Fair Consumption Space move beyond technological solutions by focusing on equitable living within planetary limits; while 32 Social Tipping Points identifies feedbacks and socio-ecological sub-systems where targeted interventions can trigger rapid, selfreinforcing transitions.

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