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Eigene Mitarbeit in einer internationalen Nothilfeorganisation; gut gemeint oder gut gemacht?
(2007)
Aufgrund der großen Vorzuege des Berufsbildes Oecotrophologie im internationalen Vergleich halte ich die vorschnelle Aufgabe der Interdisziplinaritaet und die Aufspaltung bestehender Studiengaenge in Spezialdisziplinen von Ernaehrung, Gesundheit und Lebensmitteltechnologie für verhaengnisvoll, zumal diese Taetigkeitsfelder traditionell bereits seit Jahrzehnten von akademischen oder Ausbildungsberufen fest besetzt sind und die kuenftigen akademischen Oecotrophologie-Spaltprodukte sich hier immer einer ganz erheblichen Konkurrenz ausgesetzt sehen werden. Oecotrophologie als sinnstiftende Verbindung von Haushalts-, Sozial- und Ernaehrungswissenschaften bewaehrt sich uebrigens ja gerade wieder angesichts derzeitiger Herausforderungen durch die hohe Zahl zufluchtsuchender Menschen in unserem Land bestens. Oecotrophologie in ihrer bisherigen Form hat weltweit eine unerreichte Qualitaet und Tradition als interdisziplinaer angelegte Disziplin der Daseinssicherung. Ihre Spaltprodukte werden in der bunten Vielfalt akademischer Spezialausbildungen nur zusaetzliche, farblose und letztlich entbehrliche Sonderwege bleiben.
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.
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.
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.