Live Better by Consuming Less?: Is There a “Double Dividend” in Sustainable Consumption?

By Tim Jackson. 2005

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Subfields: Marketing

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Citations in the corpus

• Consumption and the Rebound Effect: An Industrial Ecology Perspective (2005, background): “The perspectives are not so dissimilar, because SC researchers have been occupied with finding out why consumers want to consume ever more and whether this is good for them (Jackson 2005).”
• The unequal distribution of household carbon footprints in Europe and its link to sustainability (2020, background): “Furthermore, there is robust evidence that overconsumption and materialistic practices are not only damaging for the environment, but may also reduce psychological well-being (Brown & Kasser, 2005; Jackson, 2005).”
• The Voluntary Simplicity Movement: A multi-national survey analysis in theoretical context (2012, unknown): “These results are potentially important because they indicate that a ‘double dividend’ can flow from living simply, or even a ‘triple’ or ‘quadruple’ dividend, etc. (Jackson, 2005; Brown and Kasser, 2005; Kasser 2009).”
• Prosperity without Growth? – The transition to a sustainable economy (2010, background): “26 Jackson 2005b. SDC 2006c. 27 On wage disparities see, for example Bradley 2006.”
• Explaining the Paradox: How Pro-Environmental Behaviour can both Thwart and Foster Well-Being (2013, unknown): “Therefore, it is often argued, there should be a positive relationship between pro-environmental behaviour and eudaimonic well-being [9,48,66]: shifting one‘s focus from the pursuit of materialistic things like money and products, to the pursuit of non-materialistic things like close relationships, ”
• Providing decent living with minimum energy: A global scenario (2020, background): “From this perspective, true happiness can only be obtained by turning away from the world of positional consumption and insatiable desires (O'Neill, 2008; Jackson, 2005).”
• The Importance of Imports for Household Environmental Impacts (2006, background): “Rather, it is necessary to place increasing emphasis on consumption (National Research Council 1997; Heap and Kent 2000; Jackson 2004, 2005).”