Social Change and the Coming of Post-Consumer Society: Theoretical Advances and Policy Implications

ISBN-13: 9780367030216 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 234 str.

Maurie J. Cohen; Halina Szejnwald Brown; Philip J. Vergragt

Opis

The Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative (SCORAI) has, with financial support from the V. K. Rasmussen Foundation, been sponsoring a year-long colloquium on social change and sustainable consumption. This book is the capstone of this multifaceted project and brings together leading interdisciplinary experts on these developments and aims to provide a systematic understanding of the challenges and opportunities created by these new arrangements for provisioning goods and services, deriving and expressing personal identity, and engaging in processes of social and cultural communication.

O autorze

Maurie J. Cohen is Professor of Sustainability Studies and Director of the Program in Science, Technology and Societyin the Department of Humanities at the New Jersey Institute of Technology ,USA. Halina Szejnwald Brown　is Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at Clark University and a Fellow at the Tellus Institute, USA. Philip J. Vergragt is Professor Emeritus of Technology Assessment at Delft University, the Netherlands, and currently a Fellow at the Tellus Institute and a Research Fellow at Clark University, USA.