TY  - JOUR
A1  - Spangenberg, J. H.
A1  - Lorek, S.
T1  - Environmentally sustainable household consumption: from aggregate environmental pressures to priority fields of action
JF  - Ecological Economics
N2  - Unsustainable consumption patterns of the North (or rather of the global affluent consumers class) have been identified by Agenda 21 as one of the key driving forces behind the unsustainable development. However, neither accounting based on the system of national accounts SNA nor household economics provide the proper instruments to assess the environmental impact of household decision making. Eco-efficiency assessments as familiar in the business sector provide no appropriate tool for households. As an alternative an environmental space based assessment scheme is suggested covering the major pressures on the environment caused by household decisions. The methodology is used twice: once to analyse the environmental relevance of the main activity clusters of household consumption and once to identify the dominant acts of consumption within each cluster. The latter provide the basis for deriving environmental performance indicators. A rough analysis of household influence potentials permits to identify housing, eating and mobility as the three priority fields for action for minimising the environmental impact of households. Extending the influence analysis actor matrixes are derived allocating influence and thus responsibility for environmental pressures to different groups of economic agents.
KW  - Sustainable consumption
KW  - Consumption clusters
KW  - Environmental space
KW  - Indicators
KW  - Land use
Y1  - 2002
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:836-opus-7775
VL  - 43
IS  - 2-3
SP  - 127
EP  - 140
ER  - 
TY  - RPRT
A1  - Spangenberg, J. H.
A1  - Lorek, S.
ED  - Koschützke, Albrecht
T1  - Lebensqualität, Konsum und Umwelt: intelligente Lösungen statt unnötiger Gegensätze
N2  - Wer will nicht ein gutes Leben für sich und ein besseres für seine Kinder? Der Begriff Lebensqualität fasst zusammen, was Menschen als gutes Leben anstreben. Er ist nicht einfach zu definieren, denn die Wünsche und Vorlieben der Menschen sind vielfältig. Eine bessere Lebensqualität beinhaltet auch eine gesunde Natur und Umwelt. Doch wie viel Natur- und Umweltschutz braucht eine bessere Lebensqualität und wann wird Umweltschutz (subjektiv oder objektiv) lästig und beeinträchtigt die Lebensqualität?
Y1  - 2003
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:836-opus-7785
SN  - 3–89892–165–4
ER  -