TY  - JOUR
A1  - Fuchs, Doris
A1  - Di Giulio, Antonietta
A1  - Glaab, Katharina
A1  - Lorek, Sylvia
A1  - Maniates, Michael
A1  - Princen, Thomas
A1  - Ropke, Inge
T1  - Power: the missing element in sustainable consumption and absolute reductions research and action
JF  - Journal of Cleaner Production
N2  - In this essay, we aim to demonstrate the value of a power lens on consumption and absolute reductions. Specifically, we illuminate what we perceive to be a troublesome pattern of neglect of questions of power in research and action on sustainable consumption and absolute reductions. In pursuit of our objectives, we delineate how many of the informal and implicit “theories of social change” of scholars and activists in sustainable consumption and sustainable development fail to address power in a sufficiently explicit, comprehensive and differentiated manner and how that failure translates into insufficient understandings of the drivers of consumption and the potential for and barriers to absolute reductions. Second, we develop the contours of a power lens on sustainable consumption. Third, we illustrate the value of such a power lens, with a particular focus on the case of meat consumption.
KW  - absolute reduction
KW  - sustainable consumption
KW  - power
KW  - meat
KW  - social change
Y1  - 2016
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:836-opus-106438
UR  - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652615001109
VL  - 132
SP  - 298
EP  - 307
ER  -