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The Impacts of Household Consumption and Options for Change

In English

Författare

  • Arnold Tukker
  • Maurie J. Cohen
  • Klaus Hubacek
  • Oksana Mont

Summary, in English

This introductory article situates the contributions that comprise this special issue within the field of sustainable consumption and production (SCP) studies. After a brief review of the policy history surrounding SCP, we organize our discussion and the subsequent collection of articles into two groups. The first suite of articles views the environmental impacts associated with household consumption from the perspectives of different consumer groups, income levels, and geographic areas. This work confirms and refines several insights that have been developing over the past several years, namely that food and beverages, mobility, housing, and energy-using products are the most critical consumption domains from the standpoint of environmental sustainability and that higher household income leads to greater (but less than proportional) impacts. The second subset of articles analyzes the potential for mitigating these impacts through behavioral changes and innovation strategies. Though the contributions to this special issue describe several noteworthy examples of information- and team-based initiatives to catalyze behavioral changes, the state of knowledge pertaining to this aspect of the consumption problematique is much more inchoate. Research on the formulation and implementation of effective "change management for sustainable consumption" should be treated as an area of priority attention for industrial ecologists.

Publiceringsår

2010

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

13-30

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Journal of Industrial Ecology

Volym

14

Issue

1

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

International Society for Industrial Ecology, MIT Press

Ämne

  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1530-9290