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oapen-20.500.12657-469192021-02-24T02:36:10Z Consumption Corridors Fuchs, Doris Sahakian, Marlyne Gumbert, Tobias Di Giulio, Antonietta Maniates, Michael Lorek, Sylvia Graf, Antonia Consumption Corridors consumerism planetary boundaries Sustainable consumption social justice wellbeing bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCN Environmental economics bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy::HPQ Ethics & moral philosophy Consumption Corridors: Living a Good Life within Sustainable Limits explores how to enhance peoples’ chances to live a good life in a world of ecological and social limits. Rejecting familiar recitations of problems of ecological decline and planetary boundaries, this compact book instead offers a spirited explication of what everyone desires: a good life. Fundamental concepts of the good life are explained and explored, as are forces that threaten the good life for all. The remedy, says the book’s seven international authors, lies with the concept of consumption corridors, enabled by mechanisms of citizen engagement and deliberative democracy. Across five concise chapters, readers are invited into conversation about how wellbeing can be enriched by social change that joins "needs satisfaction" with consumerist restraint, social justice, and environmental sustainability. In this endeavour, lower limits of consumption that ensure minimal needs satisfaction for all are important, and enjoy ample precedent. But upper limits to consumption, argue the authors, are equally essential, and attainable, especially in those domains where limits enhance rather than undermine essential freedoms. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in the social sciences and humanities, and environmental and sustainability studies, as well as to community activists and the general public. 2021-02-23T11:51:55Z 2021-02-23T11:51:55Z 2021 book ONIX_20210223_9781000389432_8 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/46919 eng Routledge Focus on Environment and Sustainability application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781000389432.pdf Routledge 10.4324/9780367748746 10.4324/9780367748746 d86614f7-ab0b-42bf-a3b7-053fda9617b2 Routledge 112 open access
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Consumption Corridors: Living a Good Life within Sustainable Limits explores how to enhance peoples’ chances to live a good life in a world of ecological and social limits. Rejecting familiar recitations of problems of ecological decline and planetary boundaries, this compact book instead offers a spirited explication of what everyone desires: a good life. Fundamental concepts of the good life are explained and explored, as are forces that threaten the good life for all. The remedy, says the book’s seven international authors, lies with the concept of consumption corridors, enabled by mechanisms of citizen engagement and deliberative democracy. Across five concise chapters, readers are invited into conversation about how wellbeing can be enriched by social change that joins "needs satisfaction" with consumerist restraint, social justice, and environmental sustainability. In this endeavour, lower limits of consumption that ensure minimal needs satisfaction for all are important, and enjoy ample precedent. But upper limits to consumption, argue the authors, are equally essential, and attainable, especially in those domains where limits enhance rather than undermine essential freedoms. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in the social sciences and humanities, and environmental and sustainability studies, as well as to community activists and the general public.
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