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The Earthscan reader in sustainable consumption

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Readings in sustainable consumption 1 / Tim Jackson
Framing sustainable consumption
Consumption from a human development perspective 27
United Nations Development Programme
Making sense of sustainable consumption 39 / Nick Robins and Sarah Roberts
Consumption and its externalities : where economy meets ecology 50 / Thomas Princen
Pursuing more sustainable consumption by analyzing household metabolism in European countries and cities 67 / Henri C. Moll, Klaasjan Noorman, Rixt Kok, Rebecka Engström, Harold Throne-Holst, and Charlotte Clark
Accounting for sustainable consumption : a review of studies of the environmental impacts of households 88 / Edgar G. Hertwich
Challenges for sustainable consumption policy 109 / Tim Jackson
Resisting consumerism
The dubious rewards of consumption 129 / Alan Durning
The new commodity fetishism 136 / Fred Hirsch
False connections 146 / Alex Kotlowitz
Living more simply 151 / Duane Eljin
Voluntary simplicity : characterization, select psychological implications and societal consequences 159 / Amitai Etzioni
Learning Diderot's lesson : stopping the upward creep of desire 178 / Juliet Schor
Resisting simplicity
The politics of sustainable consumption : the case of the Netherlands 197 / Susan Martens and Gert Spaargaren
The poverty of morality 222 / Daniel Miller
Relative poverty - relative communication 236 / Mary Douglas
Two alternative economic models of why enough will never be enough 249 / Kjell Arne Brekke and Richard B. Howarth
The evocative power of things : consumer goods and the preservation of hopes and ideals 263 / Grant McCracken
Consuming goods and the good of consuming 278 / Colin Campbell
Reframing sustainable consumption
Efficiency and consumption : technology and practice 293 / Elizabeth Shove
Competing discourses of sustainable consumption : does the "rationalization of lifestyles" make sense? 305 / Kersty Hobson
Ethics of consumption 328 / Laurie Michaelis
Making ends meet - in the household and on the planet 346 / Karl Dake and Michael Thompson
The costs and benefits of consuming 357 / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Consuming paradise? : towards a social and cultural psychology of sustainable consumption 367 / Tim Jackson.

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