Sustainable Consumption Governance: A History of Promises and Failures

By Doris Fuchs, S. Lorek. 2005

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Subfields: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Marketing, Strategy and Management

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Strong sustainable consumption governance – precondition for a degrowth path? (2013, background): “…of the “weak” SC approach and emphasise the need for an approach of strong sustainable consumption (sSC), i.e. an approach focussing on the reduction of overall resource consumption instead of atomized individual consumption as the guiding perspective (Cohen, 2010; Fuchs and Lorek, 2005).”
Varieties of Environmental Labelling, Market Structures, and Sustainable Consumption Across Europe: A Comparative Analysis of Organizational and Market Supply Determinants of Environmental-Labelled Goods (2011, background): “While this definition implies a change in both the levels and patterns of consumption (Fuchs and Lorek 2005), environmental labels promote sustainability only in the second way, by providing information to the consumer that products meet or fail to meet certain environmental standards.”
Low carbon lifestyles: A framework to structure consumption strategies and options to reduce carbon footprints (2016, background): “Furthermore, Fuchs and Lorek (2005) differentiate between weak and strong sustainable consumption.”
Sustainability as corporate culture of a brand for superior performance (2013, background): “Academics and practitioners have reviewed sustainability from various perspectives (Fuchs & Lorek, 2005; Olson et al., 2003; Sheth, Sethia, & Srinivas, 2011).”
One More Awareness Gap? The Behaviour–Impact Gap Problem (2012, background): “Fuchs and Lorek (2005) urge a switch from an efficiency-based approach to sustainability— which requires major changes in lifestyles.”
The environmental efficiency of well-being: A cross-national analysis (2011, background): “Consumption, therefore, has been attracting increased recognition as an environmental problem in both academic and policy circles (Cohen, 2001; Fuchs and Lorek, 2005; Seyfang, 2009).”
Re-Introducing Consumption to the ‘Circular Economy’: A Sociotechnical Analysis of Domestic Food Provisioning (2016, background): “The 2002 UN Environment Programme again sought to place consumption centre stage within discussions on how to achieve sustainable development [19].”
A critical appraisal of Sustainable Consumption and Production research: The reformist, revolutionary and reconfiguration positions (2015, background): “The reformist view represents the orthodoxy in many national and international SCP policy documents (Fuchs and Lorek, 2005), in”
Sufficiency transitions: A review of consumption changes for environmental sustainability (2021, background): “It has been defined as changes in consumption levels and patterns (Fuchs and Lorek, 2005), without the precision as to what exactly this entails.”
The Impacts of Household Consumption and Options for Change (2010, unknown): “This article is not the place for a comprehensive review of SCP policy history (see, e.g., Fuchs and Lorek 2005; de Wit 2006; Tukker 2010; Cohen 2010), but in the years since the conference in South Africa, the international SCP agenda has gained political salience with, for instance, the…”