Contents

• Readings in sustainable consumption / Tim Jackson
• Pt. 1. Framing sustainable consumption. Consumption from a human development perspective / United Nations Development Programme
• Making sense of sustainable consumption / Nick Robins and Sarah Roberts
• Consumption and its externalities : where economy meets ecology / Thomas Princen
• Pursuing more sustainable consumption by analyzing household metabolism in European countries and cities / Henri C. Moll, Klaasjan Noorman, Rixt Kok, Rebecka Engström, Harold Throne-Holst, and Charlotte Clark
• Accounting for sustainable consumption : a review of studies of the environmental impacts of households / Edgar G. Hertwich
• Challenges for sustainable consumption policy / Tim Jackson
• Pt. 2. Resisting consumerism. The dubious rewards of consumption / Alan Durning
• The new commodity fetishism / Fred Hirsch
• False connections / Alex Kotlowitz
• Living more simply / Duane Eljin
• Voluntary simplicity : characterization, select psychological implications and societal consequences / Amitai Etzioni
• Learning Diderot’s lesson : stopping the upward creep of desire / Juliet Schor
• Pt. 3. Resisting simplicity. The politics of sustainable consumption : the case of the Netherlands / Susan Martens and Gert Spaargaren
• The poverty of morality / Daniel Miller
• Relative poverty - relative communication / Mary Douglas - - Two alternative economic models of why enough will never be enough / Kjell Arne Brekke and Richard B. Howarth
• The evocative power of things : consumer goods and the preservation of hopes and ideals / Grant McCracken
• Consuming goods and the good of consuming / Colin Campbell
• Pt. 4. Reframing sustainable consumption. Efficiency and consumption : technology and practice / Elizabeth Shove
• Competing discourses of sustainable consumption : does the "rationalization of lifestyles" make sense? / Kersty Hobson
• Ethics of consumption / Laurie Michaelis
• Making ends meet - in the household and on the planet / Karl Dake and Michael Thompson
• The costs and benefits of consuming / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• Consuming paradise? Towards a social and cultural psychology of sustainable consumption / Tim Jackson