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Eco-Standards, Product Labelling and Green Consumerism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

Eco-Standards, Product Labelling and Green Consumerism

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-10-01
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  • Publisher: Springer

As 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 and politically engaged consumersim, asking the question: does green labelling offer ways toward a greener and more democratic society?

The Social Life of Unsustainable Mass Consumption
  • Language: en

The Social Life of Unsustainable Mass Consumption

This book explores and explains unsustainable mass consumption in affluent contexts by stressing the social nature of consumption.

Environmental Governance of the Baltic Sea
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 265

Environmental Governance of the Baltic Sea

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-03-21
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  • Publisher: Springer

This edited volume presents a comprehensive and coherent interdisciplinary analysis of challenges and possibilities for sustainable governance of the Baltic Sea ecosystem by combining knowledge and approaches from natural and social sciences. Focusing on the Ecosystem Approach to Management (EAM) and associated multi-level, multi-sector and multi-actor challenges, the book provides up-to-date descriptions and analyses of environmental governance structures and processes at the macro-regional Baltic Sea level. Organised in two parts, Part 1 presents in-depth case studies of environmental governance practices and challenges linked to five key environmental problems - eutrophication, chemical p...

Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Sociology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 581

Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Sociology

The Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Sociology serves as a repository of insight on the complex interactions, challenges and potential solutions that characterize our shared ecological reality. Presenting innovative thinking on a comprehensive range of topics, expert scholars, researchers, and practitioners illuminate the nuances, complexities and diverse perspectives that define the continually evolving field of environmental sociology.

Political Consumerism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 532

Political Consumerism

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Protecting Nature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 313

Protecting Nature

This book makes a long overdue contribution to the ongoing debate on the role of nature protection organizations and networks. The editors have brought together eleven respected sociologists to trace and evaluate the links between nature protection organizations and society in eight European countries and the United States. Using analytical frameworks ranging from organization theory to social movements approaches, the authors describe the social networks that organizations promoting nature protection have woven, which, in turn, have helped many of them to survive and adapt to changing political and economic circumstances. Uncovering these strategies is crucial to understanding how environme...

Transparency in a New Global Order
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 313

Transparency in a New Global Order

This book argues that transparency is a concept that has gained increasing currency and favour as an organizing principle and administrative goal in recent years. Calls for transparency have been directed towards states, markets, corporations and national political processes as well as towards large institutions such as the European Union. Focusing on empirically rich case studies, the contributors explore the ideas and practices of transparency in different contexts, encouraging a discussion of the many facets of the term and its strengths, ambiguities and limitations. They aim to shed light on the powerful global discourse and practices contained in the concept, and to fill a gap in the li...

Right Research
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 328

Right Research

The book is current and interdisciplinary, engaging with recent developments around this topic and including perspectives from sciences, arts, and humanities. It will be a welcome contribution to studies of the Anthropocene as well as studies of research methods and practices. —Sam Mickey, University of S. Francisco Educational institutions play an instrumental role in social and political change, and are responsible for the environmental and social ethics of their institutional practices. The essays in this volume critically examine scholarly research practices in the age of the Anthropocene, and ask what accountability educators and researchers have in ‘righting’ their relationship t...

Food Practices in Transition
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 378

Food Practices in Transition

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-06-17
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This edited volume presents and reflects upon empirical evidence of ‘sustainability’-induced and -related transition in food practices. The material collected in the various chapters contributes to our understanding of the ways in which ideas and preferences, sociotechnological developments and changes in the governance of food interact and become visible in practices of consumption, retail and production.