* A highly accessible yet comprehensive collection of writings from the world’s foremost thinkers on the subject
* Sustainable Consumption is a topical, multidisciplinary field and a vital component of current debates about sustainable development
* A topic with rapidly growing institutional and academic interest

Politically, intellectually, and socially, sustainable consumption is a controversial concept. Consumption drives our economies and defines our lives: making it sustainable is an enormous and essential challenge. It was a key subject covered at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002, which set in place a ten-year program of effort by national governments to develop strategies for sustainable consumption and production. The problem of how to influence consumer behavior in the direction of more sustainable choices continues to challenge both opinion formers and policymakers
alike.

This book provides a coherent synthesis of key contributions to the literature on consumption and sustainability, comprising a substantive collection of selected papers and extracts from books, journals, and institutional publications. Presented with a comprehensive introductory overview written by the editor, the Reader also provides an invaluable “route map” through the complex intellectual terrain relevant to the pursuit of sustainable consumption.

Table of Contents:

Readings in Sustainable Consumption -- an Overview * Part I:
Framing Sustainable Consumption * Part II: Resisting
Consumerism * Part III: Understanding Consumers * Part IV:
Re-Framing Sustainable Consumption * Appendices,
Bibliography, Index