ISBN:
9781138013001
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (279 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Routledge Environmental Humanities
Parallel Title:
Print version Sustainable Consumption and the Good Life : Interdisciplinary perspectives
DDC:
306.3028/6
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
What does it mean to live a good life in a time when the planet is overheating, the human population continues to steadily reach new peaks, oceans are turning more acidic, and fertile soils the world over are eroding at unprecedented rates? These and other simultaneous harms and threats demand creative responses at several levels of consideration and action.Written by an international team of contributors, this book examines in-depth the relationship between sustainability and the good life. Drawing on wealth of theories, from social practice theory to architecture and design theory, and disci
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures and tables; List of contributors; Introduction; 1 Enough is enough? Re-imagining an ethics and aesthetics of sustainability for the twenty-first century; 2 The essayistic spirit of Utopia; 3 Towards a sustainable flourishing: democracy, hedonism and the politics of prosperity; 4 Is the good life sustainable? A three-decade study of values, happiness and sustainability in Norway; 5 Well-being and environmental responsibility; 6 The problem of habits for a sustainable transformation
Description / Table of Contents:
7 Well-being in sustainability transitions: making use of needs8 Human needs and the environment reconciled: participatory action-research for sustainable development in Peru; 9 On the good life and rising electricity consumption in rural Zanzibar; 10 Celebrity chefs, ethical food consumption and the good life; 11 Follow the food: how eating and drinking shape our cities; 12 Caged welfare: evading the good life for egg-laying hens; 13 Being salmon, being human: notes on an ecological turn in the modern narrative tradition; 14 Afterword: beyond the paradox of the big, bad wolf; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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