TY - JOUR A1 - Alfredsson, Eva A1 - Bentsson, Magnus A1 - Szejnwald Brown, Halina A1 - Eisenhour, Cindy A1 - Lorek, Sylvia A1 - Stevis, Dimitris A1 - Vergragt, Philip T1 - Why achieving the Paris Agreement requires reduced overall consumption and production JF - Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy N2 - Technological solutions to the challenge of dangerous climate change are urgent and necessary but to be effective they need to be accompanied by reductions in the total level of consumption and production of goods and services. This is for three reasons. First, private consumption and its associated production are among the key drivers of greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions, especially among highly emitting industrialized economies. There is no evidence that decoupling of the economy from GHG emissions is possible at the scale and speed needed. Second, investments in more sustainable infrastructure, including renewable energy, needed in coming decades will require extensive amounts of energy, largely from fossil sources, which will use up a significant share of the two-degree carbon budget. Third, improving the standard of living of the world’s poor will consume a major portion of the available carbon allowance. The scholarly community has a responsibility to put the issue of consumption and the associated production on the research and policy agenda. KW - sustainable consumption and production KW - Paris agreement KW - climate change KW - Agenda 2030 KW - sustainable investments Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:836-opus-106448 UR - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15487733.2018.1458815 SN - 1548-7733 VL - 14 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 5 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Spangenberg, Joachim H. A1 - Lorek, Sylvia T1 - Who cares (for whom) JF - Frontiers in Sustainability Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:836-opus-160675 PB - Frontiers Media ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lorek, Sylvia T1 - Veblen’s contribution to the analysis of (un-) sustainable consumption - Overvalued and underestimated JF - European Journal of Economic and Social Systems N2 - Veblen’s concept of conspicuous consumption is often cited to explain why consumption habits in our consumer societies tend to be unsustainable and ever increasing. However, much more than blaming individual consumption habits Veblen sharply analyzed quite some of the societal and economic forces which drive the framework conditions for un-sustainable consumption: the vested interests and the absentee ownership. The paper follows the path Veblen’s thoughts have taken trough economic and social literature over the last centuryand highlights how the actual sustainable consumption debate could make better use of Veblen’s insights e.g. in requesting the constitutive institutions for property. Opportunities for Strong Sustainable Consumption obviously presuppose radical changes, social innovations and thinking out of the box. KW - Veblen KW - sustainable consumption KW - vested interests KW - structural change Y1 - 2014 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:836-opus-106424 VL - 26 IS - 1-2 SP - 149 EP - 172 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bengtsson, Magnus A1 - Alfredsson, Eva A1 - Cohen, Maurie A1 - Lorek, Sylvia A1 - Schroeder, Patrick T1 - Transforming systems of consumption and production for achieving the sustainable development goals: moving beyond efficiency JF - Sustainability Science N2 - The United Nations formulated the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in 2015 as a comprehensive global policy framework for addressing the most pressing social and environmental challenges currently facing humanity. In this paper, we analyse SDG 12, which aims to ‘‘ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.’’ Despite long-standing political recognition of this objective, and ample scientific evidence both on its importance and on the efficacy of various ways of promoting it, the SDGs do not provide clear goals or effective guidance on how to accomplish this urgently needed transformation. Drawing from the growing body of research on sustainable consumption and production (SCP), the paper identifies two dominant vantage points—one focused on promoting more efficient production methods and products (mainly through technological improvement and informed consumer choice) and the other stressing the need to consider also overall volumes of consumption, distributional issues, and related social and institutional changes. We label these two approaches efficiency and systemic. Research shows that while the efficiency approach contains essential elements of a transition to sustainability, it is by itself highly unlikely to bring about sustainable outcomes. Concomitantly, research also finds that volumes of consumption and production are closely associated with environmental impacts, indicating a need to curtail these volumes in ways that safeguard social sustainability, which is unlikely to be possible without a restructuring of existing socioeconomic arrangements. Analysing how these two perspectives are reflected in the SDGs framework, we find that in its current conception, it mainly relies on the efficiency approach. On the basis of this assessment, we conclude that the SDGs represent a partial and inadequate conceptualisation of SCP which will hamper implementation. Based on this determination, this paper provides some suggestions on how governments and other actors involved in SDGs operationalisation could more effectively pursue SCP from a systemic standpoint and use the transformation of systems of consumption and production as a lever for achieving multiple sustainability objectives. KW - sustainable consumption and production KW - SDG implementation KW - systemic approaches KW - public policy Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:836-opus-106615 UR - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-018-0582-1 VL - 13 IS - 6 SP - 1533 EP - 1547 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Tukker, Arnold A1 - Cohen, Maurie A1 - de Zoysa, Uchita A1 - Hertwich, Edgar A1 - Hofstetter, Patrick A1 - Inaba, Atsushi A1 - Lorek, Sylvia A1 - Sto, Eivind T1 - The Oslo Declaration on Sustainable Consumption JF - Journal of Industrial Policy N2 - Actual initiatives to cultivate more sustainable modes of consumption have not materialized and there are indications that an implementation gap is becoming manifest. Research must begin to systemically integrate initiatives to promote improvements in quality of life, to distinguish long-term structural consumption trends, and to identify the social mechanisms and cultural aspects of consumer behavior and household decision making. Y1 - 2008 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:836-opus-106389 VL - 10 IS - 1-2 SP - 9 EP - 14 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Englert, Heike A1 - Diehl, H. A1 - Greenlaw, R. A1 - Aldana, S. T1 - The Effects of Lifestyle Modification on Glycemic Levels and Medication Intake:The Rockford CHIP T2 - Dr. Oreste Capelli, Primary Care at a Glance - Hot Topics and New Insights N2 - Introduction: The high prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the past 50 years has led to intense research, resulting in many improvements in treatment. At the same time, type 2 diabetes, with its concomitant increase in vascular complications, has become a serious, exploding and costly public health concern . Diabetes now affects 285 million adults worldwide and 344 million with pre-diabetes. Of these, 25.8 million diabetics and 79 million pre-diabetics are found in the United States alone.The current cost of diabetes in the US is likely to exceed the $174 billion estimate, which includes 2/3 for direct medical costs and 1/3 for indirect costs, such as disability, work loss, and premature death, but omits the social cost of intangibles (e.g. pain, suffering, lower quality of life). The diabetes epidemic has been accompanied by a similarly drastic increase in obesity. Although the relationship between the two developments is a matter of debate, both are presumably caused by changes in dietary habits and an increasingly sedentary modern lifestyle . Compelling evidence has shown that lifestyle changes can effectively prevent or delay the occurrence of type 2 diabetes. Because individuals at risk for this disease can usually be identified during the pre-diabetic phase of impaired glucose tolerance, early intervention and lifestyle change offer a logical approach to preventing this disease and its devastating vascular complications. Additionally, community-based lifestyle interventions for high risk groups and for the general population are a cost-effective way of curbing the growing burden of the disease. Solidifying the scientific basis for the prevention, treatment and control of this disease and its implementation on a national level, however, remains a difficult challenge. Moreresearch is needed to provide comprehensive and more effective strategies for weight-loss,especially over time. Therefore, the objectives of this study were to identify diabetics and those at risk (prediabetics) out of the total cohort of 1,517 who selected themselves into an intensive community-based lifestyle intervention program, and to assess its clinical efficacy ineffecting medication status as determined and managed by their personal physicians. Y1 - 2012 SN - 979-953-307-556-2 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.25974/fhms-571 SP - 323 EP - 336 PB - InTech CY - Rijeka, Rumänien ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Martin, Maria A1 - ..., ... A1 - ..., ... A1 - Lorek, Sylvia A1 - ..., ... T1 - Ten new insights in climate science 2021: a horizon scan JF - Global Sustainability N2 - A synthesis is made of 10 topics within climate research, where there have been significant advances since January 2020. The insights are based on input from an international open call with broad disciplinary scope. Findings include: (1) the options to still keep global warming below 1.5 °C; (2) the impact of non-CO2 factors in global warming; (3) a new dimension of fire extremes forced by climate change; (4) the increasing pressure on interconnected climate tipping elements; (5) the dimensions of climate justice; (6) political challenges impeding the effectiveness of carbon pricing; (7) demand-side solutions as vehicles of climate mitigation; (8) the potentials and caveats of nature-based solutions; (9) how building resilience of marine ecosystems is possible; and (10) that the costs of climate change mitigation policies can be more than justified by the benefits to the health of humans and nature. Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:836-opus-160666 PB - Cambridge University Press ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Reisch, Lucia A1 - Eberle, Ulrike A1 - Lorek, Sylvia T1 - Sustainable food consumption: an overview of contemporary issues and policies JF - Sustainability: Science, Practice & Policy N2 - Contemporary food production and consumption cannot be regarded as sustainable and raises problems with its wide scope involving diverse actors. Moreover, in the face of demographic change and a growing global population, sus-tainability problems arising from food systems will likely become more serious in the future. For example, agricultural production must deal with the impacts of climate change, increasingly challenging land-use conflicts, and rising health and social costs on both individual and societal levels. The unsustainability of current arrangements arises from the industrialization and globalization of agriculture and food processing, the shift of consumption patterns toward more dietary animal protein, the emergence of modern food styles that entail heavily processed products, the growing gap on a global scale between rich and poor, and the paradoxical lack of food security amid an abundance of food. These factors are attributable to national and international policies and regulations, as well as to prevalent business prac-tices and, in particular, consumers’ values and habits. The most effective ways for affluent societies to reduce the environmental impact of their diets are to reduce consumption of meat and dairy products (especially beef), to favor organic fruits and vegetables, and to avoid goods that have been transported by air on both individual and institu-tional levels (e.g., public procurement, public catering). In examining the unsustainability of the current food system this article reviews the pertinent literature to derive a working definition of sustainable food consumption, outlines the major issues and impacts of current food-consumption practices, and discusses various policy interventions, including information-based instruments, market-based initiatives, direct regulations, and “nudges.” It concludes with a call for integrative, cross-sectoral, and population-wide policies that address the full range of drivers of unsustainable food production and consumption. KW - food selection KW - food consumption KW - public policy KW - environmental impact Y1 - 2013 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:836-opus-106335 UR - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15487733.2013.11908111 SP - 7 EP - 25 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lorek, Sylvia A1 - Spangenberg, Joachim T1 - Sustainable Consumption within a sustainable economy - beyond green growth and green economies JF - Journal of Cleaner Production Y1 - 2014 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:836-opus-61544 VL - 63 SP - 33 EP - 44 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fuchs, D. A1 - Lorek, S. T1 - Sustainable Consumption Governance in a Globalizing World JF - Global Environmental Politics 2:1, February 2002 N2 - The influence of globalization on the sustainability of consumption is a frequent topic in academic and political debates. Despite this, the scientific understanding of this influence and, even more so, of the consequences for governance strategies in pursuit of sustainable consumption are still weak. In this paper, we therefore inquire into the specific channels of the influence of globalization on the sustainability of consumption. Based on our analysis, we develop guidelines for sustainable consumption governance. Y1 - 2002 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:836-opus-7754 IS - 2:1, February 2002 ER -