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Überlegt bündeln
(2010)
Ökonomische Vernunft im Haushalt?! - Was kann eine haushaltsbezogene Erwachsenenbildung leisten?
(2016)
Zur Wechselwirkung von Nicotinamid und Tryptophan auf den Proteinstoffwechsel von Aufzuchtferkeln
(1993)
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.
What Leads to Lunch—How Social Practices Impact (Non-)Sustainable Food Consumption/Eating Habits
(2017)
Ausgelöst durch das neue Kreislaufwirtschaftsgesetz werden derzeit in zahlreichen Gebietskörperschaften Maßnahmen zur Erweiterung der Wertstofferfassung bis hin zur Erarbeitung einer Wertstoffstrategie unternommen. Der Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über die Ausgestaltung in der Praxis sowie die bisherigen Erfahrungen, die durch die Begleitung vieler Modellversuche ermittelt wurden.
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.
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.
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.
Die anhaltende Diskussion um Wirtschaftlichkeit, Leistungsfähigkeit und Qualität der Dienstleistung veranlasst zunehmend mehr Abfallwirtschaft- und Stadtreinigungsbetreibe sich mit der Frage auseinanderzusetzen, " Wo steht mein Betreib im Vergleich zu anderen und wie muss ich mich als Betrieb positionieren?". Erst Antworten hierzu kann u. A. auch eine Teilnahme an einem brancheninternen Benchmarking-Verfahren liefern.
Despite widespread recognition of the need to transition toward more sustainable production and consumption and numerous initiatives to that end, global resource extraction and corresponding socio-ecological degradation continue to grow. Understanding the causes of this persistent failure is a necessary step towards more effective action. This article contributes to that understanding by synthesizing theory and evidence that links unsustainable production-consumption systems to power and inequality. While sustainable consumption and production research and action mostly focuses on technological or behavioral change, the socio-ecological inequalities driving production-consumption systems built into the organization of our global political economy, remain largely overlooked. In response, we propose a structural political economy orientation that seeks explicitly to reduce these inequalities and advance environmental justice and, thus, create the conditions for sustainable production-consumption systems. We then propose three important arenas of research and action towards sustainable production-consumption systems: justice, governance, and co-production of knowledge and action. These arenas, collectively and individually, can serve as entry points to study and act on the dynamics of (un)sustainable production-consumption systems. This can be done at the micro level, with respect to specific commodity chains or systems of provisioning, or at meso and macro levels with respect to national and global production networks. Our proposed orientation helps distinguish research and practice proposals into those emphasizing management and compensation resulting often in persistence of unsustainability, from those proffering structural changes in unsustainable production-consumption systems. We invite critique and collaboration to develop this research and action agenda further.
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.
The nutritional footprint - An assessment tool for health and environmental effects of nutrition
(2014)
Background
Worldwide the prevalence of obesity is high, and promoting a shift towards more healthful and more plant-based dietary patterns appears to be one promising strategy to address this issue. A dietary score to assess adherence to a healthy plant-based diet is the healthful plant-based diet index. While there is evidence from cohort studies that an increased healthful plant-based diet index is associated with improved risk markers, evidence from intervention studies is still lacking.
Methods
A lifestyle intervention was conducted with mostly middle-aged and elderly participants from the general population (n = 115). The intervention consisted of a 16-month lifestyle program focusing on a healthy plant-based diet, physical activity, stress management, and community support.
Results
After 10 weeks, significant improvements were seen in dietary quality, body weight, body mass index, waist circumference, total cholesterol, measured and calculated LDL cholesterol, oxidized LDL particles, non-HDL cholesterol, remnant cholesterol, glucose, insulin, blood pressure, and pulse pressure. After 16 months, significant decreases were seen in body weight (-1.8 kg), body mass index (-0.6 kg/m2), and measured LDL cholesterol (-12 mg/dl). Increases in the healthful plant-based diet index were associated with risk marker improvements.
Conclusions
The recommendation of moving towards a plant-based diet appears acceptable and actionable and may improve body weight. The healthful plant-based diet index can be a useful parameter for intervention studies.