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The Future of Consumer Society: Prospects for Sustainability in the New Economy by Maurie J. Cohen
Booksplease Price: £74.78Consumer society in the United States and other countries is receding due to demographic ageing, rising income inequality, political paralysis, and resource scarcity. At the same time, steady jobs... -
Risk in the Modern Age: Social Theory, Science and Environmental Decision-Making by Maurie J. Cohen 9780312222161
Booksplease Price: £46.28Environmental decision-making in recent decades has become increasingly dependent on scientific expertise. Grounded in universal principles of knowledge, these expert evaluations often depart from... -
Social Change and the Coming of Post-consumer Society: Theoretical Advances and Policy Implications by Maurie J Cohen
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Consumer society is an unquestionably complex social construct. However, after decades of unremitting dominance there are signs emerging that it is starting to falter, both as a coherent and durable... -
Innovations in Sustainable Consumption: New Economics, Socio-technical Transitions and Social Practices by Maurie J. Cohen 9781782540243
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £33.23This timely volume recognizes that traditional policy approaches to reduce human impacts on the environment through technological change - for example, emphasizing resource efficiency and the... -
Sustainability by MJ Cohen
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.03Sustainability is one of the buzzwords of our times and a key imperative for economic growth, technological development, social equity, and environmental quality. But what does it really mean and how... -
Keeping Cool in Southeast Asia: Energy Consumption and Urban Air-Conditioning by Marlyne Sahakian 9781137308825
Booksplease Price: £92.11Against the backdrop of the environmental impact of household electricity consumption and the history of cooling practices, Marlyne Sahakian considers how people keep cool, from Metro Manila to other... -
Beyond the Green Transformation: On the Way to a Postliberal Modernity Ingolfur Bluhdorn 9781509571048
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.03Until very recently, the climate crisis was considered the most serious and urgent challenge facing contemporary societies. There was widespread agreement that a comprehensive green transformation is... -
Beyond the Green Transformation: On the Way to a Postliberal Modernity Ingolfur Bluhdorn 9781509571031
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05Until very recently, the climate crisis was considered the most serious and urgent challenge facing contemporary societies. There was widespread agreement that a comprehensive green transformation is... -
Eco-Standards, Product Labelling and Green Consumerism by Magnus Bostrom 9780230537378
Booksplease Price: £92.21As conscientious consumers, we become overwhelmed with alarms about food contamination, climate change, chemical pollution and other environmental and health-related risks. This book explores green... -
Eco-Standards, Product Labelling and Green Consumerism by Magnus Bostrom 9780230321724
Booksplease Price: £92.13As conscientious consumers, we become overwhelmed with alarms about food contamination, climate change, chemical pollution and other environmental and health-related risks. This book explores green... -
Consumption Corridors: Living a Good Life within Sustainable Limits by Doris Fuchs 9780367748739
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.54Consumption Corridors: Living a Good Life within Sustainable Limits explores how to enhance peoples' chances to live a good life in a world of ecological and social limits. Rejecting familiar... -
Consumption Corridors: Living a Good Life within Sustainable Limits by Doris Fuchs
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £46.49Consumption Corridors: Living a Good Life within Sustainable Limits explores how to enhance peoples' chances to live a good life in a world of ecological and social limits. Rejecting familiar... -
Putting Sustainability into Practice: Applications and Advances in Research on Sustainable Consumption by Emily Huddart Kennedy 9781784710590
Booksplease Price: £116.18Putting Sustainability into Practice offers a robust and interdisciplinary understanding of contemporary consumption routines that challenges conventional approaches to social change premised on... -
Sustainable Consumption: Key Issues Lucie Middlemiss (University of Leeds, UK) 9781138645660
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Sustainable Consumption: Key Issues provides a concise introduction to the field of sustainable consumption, outlining the contribution of the key disciplines in this multi-disciplinary area, and... -
Cheaponomics: The High Cost of Low Prices by Michael Carolan
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Do you really think you are getting a good deal when given that free mobile phone for switching service providers, if a multinational retailer undercuts its competitors or by the fact that food is... -
Technology, Globalization, and Sustainable Development: Transforming the Industrial State Nicholas A Ashford 9781138605534
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £61.24Technology, Globalization, and Sustainable Development offers a unified, transdisciplinary approach for transforming the industrial state in order to promote sustainable development. The authors...