Power: the missing element in sustainable consumption and absolute reductions research and action
- 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.
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| Verfasserangaben: | Doris Fuchs, Antonietta Di Giulio, Katharina Glaab, Sylvia Lorek, Michael Maniates, Thomas Princen, Inge Ropke |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:836-opus-106438 |
| URL: | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652615001109 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.02.006 |
| Titel des übergeordneten Werkes (Englisch): | Journal of Cleaner Production |
| Dokumentart: | Beitrag in einer (wissenschaftlichen) Zeitschrift |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Datum der Veröffentlichung (online): | 20.05.2019 |
| Jahr der Erstveröffentlichung: | 2016 |
| Betreiber des Publikationsservers: | FH Münster - University of Applied Sciences |
| Datum der Freischaltung: | 20.05.2019 |
| Freies Schlagwort / Tag: | absolute reduction; meat; power; social change; sustainable consumption |
| Band / Jahrgang: | 132 |
| Erste Seite: | 298 |
| Letzte Seite: | 307 |
| Fachbereiche: | Oecotrophologie · Facility Management (OEF) |
| Publikationsliste: | Lorek, Sylvia |
| Lizenz (Deutsch): |  Zweitveroeffentlichung |