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Confronting consumption/ edited by Thomas Princen, Michael Maniates, and Ken Conca.

Contributor(s): Princen, Thomas, ed | Conca, Ken, ed | Maniates, Michael, edMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: London: The MIT Press, 2002Description: 382 pISBN: 9780262661287Subject(s): Consumption (Economics) -- Environmental aspects | Environmental policy | Sustainable developmentDDC classification: 339.47

Contents:

Consumption and its externalities: where economy meets ecology / Thomas Princen -- Individualization: plant a tree, buy a bike, save the world? / Michael Maniates -- Commoditization: consumption efficiency and an economy of care and connection / Jack Manno -- Distancing: consumption and the severing of feedback / Thomas Princen -- Consumption and environment in a global economy / Ken Conca -- The distancing of waste: overconsumption in a global economy / Jennifer Clapp -- Environmentally damaging consumption: the impact of American markets on tropical ecosystems in the twentieth century / Richard Tucker -- In search of consumptive resistance: the voluntary simplicity movement / Michael Maniates -- Jamming culture: Adbusters' hip media campaign against consumerism / Marilyn Bordwell -- Think globally, transact locally: the local currency movement and green political economy / Eric Helleiner -- Caveat certificatum: the case of forest certification / Fred Gale -- Citizens or consumers: the home power movement as a new practice of technology / Jesse Tatum -- Conclusion: To confront consumption / Thomas Princen, Michael Maniates, and Ken Conca.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	339.47 PRI/C (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P14623

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Consumption and its externalities: where economy meets ecology / Thomas Princen --
Individualization: plant a tree, buy a bike, save the world? / Michael Maniates --
Commoditization: consumption efficiency and an economy of care and connection / Jack Manno --
Distancing: consumption and the severing of feedback / Thomas Princen --
Consumption and environment in a global economy / Ken Conca --
The distancing of waste: overconsumption in a global economy / Jennifer Clapp --
Environmentally damaging consumption: the impact of American markets on tropical ecosystems in the twentieth century / Richard Tucker --
In search of consumptive resistance: the voluntary simplicity movement / Michael Maniates --
Jamming culture: Adbusters' hip media campaign against consumerism / Marilyn Bordwell --
Think globally, transact locally: the local currency movement and green political economy / Eric Helleiner --
Caveat certificatum: the case of forest certification / Fred Gale --
Citizens or consumers: the home power movement as a new practice of technology / Jesse Tatum --
Conclusion: To confront consumption / Thomas Princen, Michael Maniates, and Ken Conca.

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