List of Boxes, Figures and Tables List of Acronyms and Abbreviations List of Sources Acknowledgements1 Readings in Sustainable Consumption
Tim Jackson
Part 1 Framing Sustainable Consumption2 Consumption from a Human Development Perspective
United Nations Development Programme
3 Making Sense of Sustainable Consumption
Nick Robins and Sarah Roberts
4 Consumption and Its Externalities: Where Economy Meets Ecology
Thomas Princen
5 Pursuing More Sustainable Consumption by Analysing Household Metabolism in European Countries and Cities
Henri C. Moll, Klaasjan Noorman, Rixt Kok, Rebecka Engstrom, Harold Throne-Hoist and Charlotte Clark
6 Accounting for Sustainable Consumption: A Review of Studies of the Environmental Impacts of Households
Edgar G. Hertwich
7 Challenges for Sustainable Consumption Policy
Tim Jackson
Part 2 Resisting Consumerism8 The Dubious Rewards of Consumption
Alan Durning
9 The New Commodity Fetishism
Fred Hirsch
10 False Connections
Alex Kotlowitz
11 Living More Simply
Duane Elgin
12 Voluntary Simplicity: Characterization, Select Psychological Implications and Societal Consequences
Amitai Etzioni
13 Learning Diderot's Lesson: Stopping the Upward Creep of Desire
Juliet Schor
Part 3 Resisting Simplicity14 The Politics of Sustainable Consumption: The Case of the Netherlands
Susan Martens and Gert Spaargaren
15 The Poverty of Morality
Daniel Miller
16 Relative Poverty — Relative Communication
Mary Douglas
17 Two Alternative Economic Models of Why Enough Will Never Be Enough
KjellArne Brekke and Richard B. Howarth
18 The Evocative Power of Things: Consumer Goods and the Preservation of Hopes and Ideals
Grant McCracken
19 Consuming Goods and the Good of Consuming
Colin Campbell
Part 4 Reframing Sustainable Consumption20 Efficiency and Consumption: Technology and Practice
Elizabeth Shove
21 Competing Discourses of Sustainable Consumption: Does the 'Rationalization of Lifestyles' Make Sense?
Kersty Hobson
22 Ethics of Consumption
Laurie Michaelis
23 Making Ends Meet - in the Household and on the Planet
Karl Dake and Michael Thompson
24 The Costs and Benefits of Consuming
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
25 Consuming Paradise? Towards a Social and Cultural Psychology of Sustainable Consumption
Tim Jackson