Social Network Analysis

Framework Convention on Climate Change

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Invisible colleges : diffusion of knowledge in scientific communities

How to understand and measure environmental sustainability: Indicators and targets

Sustainable Development Goals: A need for relevant indicators

http://obela.org/system/files/Decrecimiento%20sustentable.pdf

Sustainable de-growth: Mapping the context, criticisms and future prospects of an emergent paradigm

This paper offers a short history of references to sustainable development, from the Brundtland Report (1987) to the preparation of the “Rio+20” Conference (2012) . This discussion will consist of four parts. The first section revisits the definitions and status of sustainable development in environmental discourse. Second, the paper looks at the evolution of policy instruments applied to the environment, and the influence of the sustainable development framing. Third, the scope of the analysis expands for a broader view of the changes that have occurred since the Brundtland Report in the “environmental scene” (actors, discourses, modes of action). Lastly, the paper outlines major evolutions of environmental problems in the same period, in an attempt to sketch limitations that sustainable development discourse has progressively revealed. The article concludes by envisaging the future of the concept, and the potential influence of alternative concepts in this respect.

Over two decades in pursuit of sustainable development: Influence, transformations, limits

1 Introduction Sustainable Consumption: A Short List of Contradictions Part 1: Consumption: What Kind of a Problem for Sustainable Development? 2 Sustainable Household Consumption: Fact, Future or Fantasy? 3 Epistemological Approach of Consumption: How to Attribute Power to the Consumers? 4 Unsustainable Consumption in Social and Psychological Context 5 Sustainable Consumption and Sustainable Welfare 6 What's Wrong with Consumption: Overconsumption, Underconsumption, Misconsumption? 7 Consumption: A Field for Resistance and Moral Containment 8 Fair Trade and Economic Growth Part 2: Who Are the (Ir)responsible Consumers and Why? 9 Belgian Households and Sustainable Consumption: Capacity and Incapacity of Action 10 The Dynamic of Sustainable Consumption: Results of Qualitative Surveys 11 What Justifications for a Sustainable Consumption? 12 Consumption as a Solidarity-Based Commitment: The Case of Oxfam Worldshops' Customers Part 3: How Can (or do) Consumers and Citizens Influence Producers? 13 Marketing Ethical Products: What Can We Learn from Fair-Trade Consumer Behaviour in Belgium 14 Can Fair Trade be Extended to Massive Sales? 15 Impact of the Construction of Quality Networks at Farmer's Level: The Example of Fair Trade Cotton 16 Changing Companies for Changing the Consumer's Behaviour, Application of the Actionalist Theory

Sustainable Consumption, Ecology and Fair Trade

25 ans de développement durable, et après ?

A global analysis shows that considerable forces contribute nowadays to the perpetuation of the so-called “developed” model of consumption, and its extension to growing parts of the world, despite reiterated calls for “modification of production and consumption patterns”. Environmental product regulation can be situated in this general perspective. This paper returns to the framing of policies devoted to ecologically sustainable consumption, taking the example of the Integrated product policy at the European level. How are the objectives of such policies defined? What instruments are privileged? Comparing theoretical approaches with policy design, we focus on the role devoted to consumers in these contexts. Bringing in literature evidence, survey results and findings from an original study, we argue that appropriate knowledge of the diversity of consumers’ attitudes and about the limitations of their possible actions is not properly taken into account in product policies, notably when information and voluntary tools are dominant. From this point of view, environmental product regulations are well justified, but they should, as all policy instruments implicating consumers, take careful notice of their situation.

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Edwin Zaccai

Papers

Sustainable de-growth: Mapping the context, criticisms and future prospects of an emergent paradigm

Over two decades in pursuit of sustainable development: Influence, transformations, limits

Sustainable Consumption, Ecology and Fair Trade

25 ans de développement durable, et après ?

Assessing the role of consumers in sustainable product policies