Consumer scapegoatism and limits to green consumerism

By L. Akenji. 2014

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Marketing

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Diversifying and de-growing the circular economy: Radical social transformation in a resource-scarce world (2016, background): “consumers’ (Akenji, 2014; Fuchs & Lorek, 2005) via an unquestioned reliance upon, and uptake of, technologically-mediated forms of social engagement.”
Transforming Consumption: From Decoupling, to Behavior Change, to System Changes for Sustainable Consumption (2015, background): “” Due to the multiplicity of influences on consumption, a narrow approach to change consumer behavior appears to be a weak lever (117, 118).”
Examining drivers of sustainable consumption : the influence of norms and opinion leadership on electric vehicle adoption in Sweden (2017, background): “From a strong sustainable consumption perspective (Akenji, 2014; e.g., Lorek and Fuchs, 2013) it is also important to point out that although EVs are less harmful for the environment in that they rely less on fossil fuels, management policies aiming at reducing car traffic overall are imperative as…”
Household time use, carbon footprints, and urban form: a review of the potential contributions of everyday living to the 1.5 °C climate target (2018, background): “However, an excessive focus on individual choices [19 ,35 ,75,78] and incremental product efficiency improvements has been criticized as consumer scapegoatism [14], given the limited agency of consumers in inducing fundamental changes in the current consumerist system [14,20,35 ,75,78].”
Quantifying the potential for climate change mitigation of consumption options (2020, background): “Our focus on consumption options should not be interpreted as passing the mitigation responsibility to consumers [44].”
Power: the missing element in sustainable consumption and absolute reductions research and action (2016, background): “The debate on the existence (Ginevi cius and Krivka, 2011) or nonexistence (Akenji, 2014) of consumer sovereignty and its influence on the market mirrors this approach to power.”
Making Sustainable Consumption and Production the Core of Sustainable Development Goals (2014, background): “As such, in order to effectively accelerate a shift to SCP the SDGs would have to go beyond the green consumerism that has characterized many SCP initiatives to date (Akenji 2014).”