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Sustainable Consumption and Production, Volume I : Challenges and Development / edited by Ranjula Bali Swain, Susanne Sweet

Publisher	(Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan)
Year	2021
Edition	1st ed. 2021.
Authors	Bali Swain, Ranjula editor Sweet, Susanne editor SpringerLink (Online service)

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Material Type	E-Book
Media type	機械可読データファイル
Size	XXVI, 447 p. 19 illus., 13 illus. in color : online resource
Notes	1. An Introduction to the Challenges and Development in Sustainable Challenges and Development -- 2. Sustainable Production and Consumption: Mapping the Conceptual Terrain -- 3. An Analysis of Sustainability Index -- 4. Completing the Cycle: An Inclusive Capitalism approach linking sustainable consumption and production -- 5. Urban advantage? Sustainable consumption and ontological cityism across the urban hierarchy -- 6. Energy consumption patterns in Africa: The role of biomass fuels for cooking and fuel use in the transportation sector -- 7. Increasing pace of urbanization and implications for food security and sustainable agriculture -- 8. Sustainable reproductive health production -- 9. Sustainable production of forest-risk commodities: Governance, disarticulations, and uneven geographies -- 10. Incentives for Technological Development in the Presence of Environmentally Aware Consumers -- 11. Interaction between government and business in efforts to shape sustainable markets for sustainable production and consumption -- 12. The Trans-formative with Trans-parency: Untapping Ground-Up Environmental Information and New Technologies for Sustainability -- 13. Achieving Sustainable Production through Creative Destruction: Reflections on a multidisciplinary project -- 14. Motivations for investment in sustainable consumption and production -- 15. Climate-Friendly Default Rules -- 16. Feminist Ecological Economics: A Care-Centered Approach to Sustainability -- 17. Producing and Consuming Sustainability in Business Education -- 18. We Know We’re Hypocrites, But Do We Believe It?: The Limits and Possibilities of Hypocrisy Discourse for Sustainable Consumption Economic growth and increasing population impose long-term risks to the environment and society. Approaches to address the impact of consumption and production on bio-diversity loss, resource availability, climate change, and mounting waste problems on land and in seas have yet not proven to be successful. This calls for innovative approaches to address the complex environmental, social, and economic interrelationships that have to be addressed in transforming to sustainable development. Sustainable Consumption and Production, Volume I: Challenges and Development aims to explore critical global challenges and addresses how consumers, producers, the private sector, international organizations, and governments can play an active role in innovating businesses to support a transitioning towards sustainable consumption and production. The book explores different approaches and innovations to address sustainable consumption and production. It details multiple social and economic contexts to the challenges and developments towards a sustainable consumption and production. The book is of interest to economists, students, businesses, and policymakers. Chapter 14 and chapter 15 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com. Ranjula Bali Swain is Visiting Professor at Mistra Center for Sustainalbe Markets (Misum), Stockholm School of Economics and Professor of Economics at Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden. Her research focusses on sustainable development, environmental economics and development economics. Susanne Sweet is an Associate Professor at Stockholm School of Economics. Sweet’s research covers a broad range of topics on corporate sustainability and responsibility and she has for the past eight years been the research manager for a large cross disciplinary research program on circular fashion HTTP:URL=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56371-4
Subjects	LCSH:Environmental economics LCSH:Development economics LCSH:International business enterprises LCSH:Economics—Psychological aspects FREE:Environmental Economics FREE:Development Economics FREE:International Business FREE:Behavioral Economics
Classification	LCC:HC79.E5 DC23:333.7
ID	8000073021
ISBN	9783030563714