Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/270816 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
Routledge Focus on Environment and Sustainability
Publisher: 
Routledge, London
Abstract: 
"Consumption 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 recitations of problems of ecological decline and planetary boundaries, this compact book instead offers a spirited explication of what everyone desires: a good life. Fundamental concepts of the good life are explained and explored, as are forces that threaten the good life for all. The remedy, says the book's seven international authors, lies with the concept of consumptions corridors, enabled by mechanisms of citizen engagement and deliberative democracy. Across five concise chapters, readers are invited into conversation about how wellbeing can be enriched by social change that joins "needs satisfaction" with consumerist restraint, social justice, and environmental sustainability. In this endeavour, lower limits of consumption that ensure minimal needs satisfaction for all are important, and enjoy ample precedent. But upper limits to consumption, argue the authors, are equally essential, and attainable, especially in those domains where limits enhance rather than undermine essential freedoms. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in the social sciences and humanities, environmental and sustainability studies, but also community activists and the general public"--
Subjects: 
Consumption Corridors
consumerism
planetary boundaries
Sustainable consumption
social justice
wellbeing
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ISBN: 
978-0-367-74874-6
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Book
Document Version: 
Published Version

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