Ecological modernization theory and domestic consumption

By G. Spaargaren. 2000

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Subfields: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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• Motives for and barriers to household adoption of small-scale production of electricity: examples from Sweden (2011, background): “In this context, Spaargaren (2000) has emphasized that consumers’ involvement in greening their lifestyles and domestic consumption patterns relate to more than the amount of money that they want to spend in specific ways.”
• The social pillar of sustainable development: a literature review and framework for policy analysis (2012, background): “While UN materials embrace a more radical position on awareness, the ecological modernization position does not move too far from traditional Western development norms. For example, the Brundtland Report argues that western consumption levels are ecologically unsustainable and that attitudes must be”
• Adolescents’ attitudes towards organic food: a survey of 15‐ to 16‐year old school children (2007, unknown): “To get a clearer picture of the circumstances under which young people will buy organic food, the lifestyles and systems of provision should be researched ( Spaargaren, 2000 ).”
• Key Challenges to Ecological Modernization Theory (2003, background): “…but also may be key drivers of environmental reform (Cohen, 1997, 1999; Mol, 1995, 1996, 2001, 2002; Mol & Sonnenfeld, 2000a; Mol & Spaargaren, 2000; Spaargaren, 1997, 2000; Spaargaren & Mol, 1992).2 EMT is, therefore, a distinct counterpoint to theories from political economy (e.g., O’Connor,…”
• Sustainable Consumption: A Theoretical and Environmental Policy Perspective (2003, background): “From this and many similar empirical cases we were able to conclude that the social relations that accompany the application of sustainable technologies at the domestic level show remarkable and relevant differences and that these differences cannot be explained by or reduced to differences in the t”