{"product_id":"sustainable-consumption-9780199679355","title":"Sustainable Consumption","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf global society is to address the many environmental and other sustainability challenges that confront us in the twenty-first century, such as climate change and water resources, it will be necessary to make significant changes in our patterns of consumption, production, and distribution. There is a growing realization that while changes in production and distribution are formidable, the proposed solutions may not succeed unless it is possible to persuade individuals and households to change their patterns of consumption to make them more sustainable. However there are significant differences in how key disciplines such as psychology, neuroscience, economics, politics, sociology, anthropology, and history conceptualise consumption, empirically test their theoretical predictions, and use these to inform policy-makers across the private, public and third sectors on how to make consumption more sustainable. This book contains chapters from world-leading experts in these different discip\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Introduction ; PART ONE: EXTENSIONS OF THE SIMPLE ECONOMISTS' MODEL OF CONSUMPTION ; 2. Sustainability and the Determinants of Personal Consumption ; 3. The Value to the Environmental Movement of the New Literature on the Economics of Happiness ; 4. Consumption, Stability, and Sustainability in Socio-Economic Systems ; 5. How Should Benefits and Costs Be Discounted in an Intergenerational Context ; PART TWO: CHALLENGING THE ASSUMPTION THAT INDIVIDUAL CONSUMERS ALWAYS ACT RATIONALLY ; 6. The Hungry Brain ; 7. Consuming at the Wrong Rate:  Lessons from the Harvard Game ; 8. The Psychology of Sustainable Consumption ; 9. Behavioural Economics in Water Management: An Overview of Behavioural Economics Applications to Residential Water Demand ; 10. The Politics of Nudge: Dilemmas in Implementing Policies for Sustainable Consumption ; PART THREE: LOOKING BEYOND THE INDIVIDUAL CONSUMER: SOCIO-CULTURAL EXPLANATIONS OF CONSUMPTION ; 11. Past and Present: Historical Perspectives on Inequality and Collective Provision in Modern Consumption ; 12. Sociology, Consumption, and Habit ; 13. The Body in Consumption: Perspectives from India ; 14. Consumer Cultures: Past, Present, and Future","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51742159438167,"sku":"9780199679355","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780199679355.jpg?v=1758380878","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sustainable-consumption-9780199679355","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}