The international political economy of making consumption sustainable

Review of International Political Economy

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 340-358

  Iles, Alastair ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 33646378181     PISSN: 09692290     EISSN: 14664526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09692290600625603     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. Examples include: Lizabeth Cohen (2003) A Consumer's Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America, New York: Knopf;
2. Neva R. Goodwin, Frank Ackerman and David Kiron (eds) (1997) The Consumer Society, Washington, DC: Island Press.
3. For example, Andrew Jorgenson (2003) 'Consumption and Environmental Degradation: A Cross-National Analysis of the Ecological Footprint', Social Problems, 50(3): 374-94;
4. William Rees and Laura Westra (2003) 'When Consumption does Violence: Can there be Sustainability and Environmental Justice in a Resource-Limited World?' in Julian Aygeman, Robert Bullard and Peter Evans (eds) Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
5. As the Worldwatch Institute explains, humans demand consumer products to satisfy their physical desires, needs for social identities, psychological impulses, and cultural preferences. In turn, technology developments vastly enhancing productivity and harvest capabilities, a global trend towards free trade and lower commodity prices, inexpensive energy, and increasing willingness by companies to look for the cheapest labor worldwide stimulate consumption.
6. See www.aveda.com.
7. This is what Sheila Jasanoff does in her book, Designs on Nature: Science and Democracy in America and Europe, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.