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Confronting consumption

Author: Thomas Princen; Michael Maniates; Ken Conca
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Thomas Princen; Michael Maniates; Ken Conca
ISBN: 0262162083 9780262162081 0262661284 9780262661287
OCLC Number: 48655774
Description: x, 382 p. ; 23 cm.
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.
Responsibility: edited by Thomas Princen, Michael Maniates, and Ken Conca.

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