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  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Spangenberg, J. H.
A1  - Lorek, S.
T1  - Indicators for environmentally sustainable household consumption
JF  - Int. J. Sustainable Development
N2  - The objective of this paper is to identify those areas of consumption, in which private households can make significant contributions to environmental sustainability, and to present a transparent and comprehensive set of indicators for them. The analysis of the environmental impacts of households focuses on consumption clusters that permit to depict different life spheres of private households. Two criteria guided the investigation of the relevance of these clusters: · The significance of the consumption cluster, and · The potential influence of households. Resource consumption was chosen as simplified, but reliable representation of environmental pressure dynamics. Growing resource consumption goes together with growing environmental pressures and vice versa, although not necessarily proportionally. The key resources analysed are energy and material consumption, and land use. Based on this analysis, three priority fields for action by households were identified: construction and housing, food/nutrition and transport (in this order). All other consumption clusters can be considered environmentally marginal, providing combined saving potentials of less than 10% of the total resource consumption. Finally, from description of the respective roles of actors based on anecdotal evidence a semi-quantitative "actor matrix" is presented indicating the relative influence of different actors per consumption cluster.
KW  - Sustainability
KW  - Indicators
KW  - Key resources
KW  - Actors centred approach
KW  - Material Flows
Y1  - 2001
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:836-opus-7764
SN  - 0960-1406
VL  - 4
SP  - 101
EP  - 120
ER  -