{"product_id":"waste-management-and-sustainable-consumption-9781138797260","title":"Waste Management and Sustainable Consumption","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe accelerated pace of global consumption over the past decades has meant that governments across the world are now faced with significant challenges in dealing with the dramatically increased volume of waste. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile research on waste management has previously focused on finding technological solutions to the problem, this book uniquely examines the social and cultural views of waste, shedding new light on the topic by emphasising the consumer perspective throughout. Drawing on a wide variety of disciplines including environmental, economic, social and cultural theories, the book presents philosophical reflections, practical examples and potential solutions to the problem of increasing waste. It analyses and compares case studies from countries such as Sweden, Japan, the USA, India, Nigeria and Qatar, bringing out valuable insights for the international community and generating a critical discussion on how we can move towards a more sustainable society. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book will \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In a global economy dependent upon ever rising levels of consumption, waste is the material artefact that is steadily consuming fragile eco-systems and accelerating the pace of climate change. In this book, an interdisciplinary group of scholars analyze waste not merely as a technical problem but as configurations of practices and meanings that are embedded in broader socio-cultural systems and institutional structures. This theoretically innovative, cross cultural and eminently practical study of waste, and how societies can better manage its deleterious consequences, is both timely and fascinating.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCraig J. Thompson, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In gathering more contributors to 'waste's table', this volume demonstrates the claim made by Richard Wilk in its afterword: that waste is the single most important link between population, consumption and climate change. In showing how waste is inexorably a matter of consumption, it will surely gather more contributors to the debate.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNicky Gregson, Durham University, UK\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This volume has an absolutely essential message: achieving real sustainability requires understanding the social and cultural dimensions of consumption. In a carefully composed set of nuanced powerful chapters, some of the most eminent scholars in the field of critical consumption studies provide a wealth of arguments that help us realize why people consume and why the vicious cycles of production and consumption are so extremely hard to break. Here we learn, once and for all, that this concerns the habits of the heart and the deepest layers of identity production and that sustainable consumption simply will not be achieved just by adding more sophisticated recycling technologies or incentives to conserve.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSverker Sörlin, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Among the strengths of the book are the diversity of the authors' backgrounds (engineering, business, sociology, etc.) and the variety of topics they address. The many good references and index increase the usefulness of this work. Summing Up: Recommended. All readership levels.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCHOICE, L. E. Erickson, Kansas State University \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction \u003ci\u003eKarin M. Ekström\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 1: Consumption and Waste\u003c\/b\u003e 1. Recycling the Home: the Constant Flow of Domestic Stuff, Emotions and Routines \u003ci\u003eOrvar Löfgren\u003c\/i\u003e 2. The Curse of the New: How the Accelerating Pursuit of the New is Driving Hyper-Consumption \u003ci\u003eColin Campbell\u003c\/i\u003e 3. Thinking Waste Sociologically \u003cem\u003ePaul Hewer \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 2: Managing Waste\u003c\/b\u003e 4. Factors Affecting Development of Waste Management: Experiences from Different Cultures \u003ci\u003eMohammad Taherzadeh and Karthik Rajendran\u003c\/i\u003e 5. Waste Prevention Action Nets \u003cem\u003eHerv\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eé Corvellec and Barbara Czarniawska\u003c\/em\u003e 6. Curbside Cartographies in an Urban Food-Waste Composting Program \u003cem\u003eJohn W. Schouten, Diane M. Martin and Jack S. Tillotson \u003c\/em\u003e7. Cloth Loop: An Attempt to Construct an Actor-Network \u003cem\u003eEva Gustafsson, Daniel Hjelmgren and Barbara Czarniawska \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 3: Socio-Cultural Views on Waste \u003c\/b\u003e8. Exploring Food Waste Through the Lens of Social Practice Theories: Some Reflections on Eating as a Compound Practice \u003cem\u003eDale Southerton and Luke Yates \u003c\/em\u003e9. Environmental Consumer Socialization Among Generation Swing and Y: A Study of Clothing Consumption \u003cem\u003eKarin M. Ekstr\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eöm, Daniel Hjelmgren and Nicklas Salomonson \u003c\/em\u003e10. Unpacking Corporate Sustainability: Sustainable Communication, Waste and the 3Rs in a Network Society \u003cem\u003ePierre McDonagh and Andrea Prothero \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 4: Preventing Waste\u003c\/b\u003e 11. Upcycling of Pre-Consumer Waste: Opportunities and Barriers in the Furniture and Clothing Industries \u003cem\u003eDaniel Hjelmgren, Nicklas Salomonson and Karin M. Ekström \u003c\/em\u003e12. Post-Ownership Sustainability \u003cem\u003eRussell Belk \u003c\/em\u003e13. Supplementing the Conventional 3R Waste Hierarchy: Considering the Role of Carbon Rationing \u003cem\u003eMaurie J. Cohen \u003c\/em\u003e14. Afterword\u003ci\u003e Richard Wilk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019526177111,"sku":"9781138797260","price":45.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138797260.jpg?v=1750780531","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/waste-management-and-sustainable-consumption-9781138797260","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}