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Marlyne Sahakian
Researcher at University of Geneva
Publications - 82
Citations - 1628
Marlyne Sahakian is an academic researcher from University of Geneva. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sustainable consumption & Consumption (economics). The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 63 publications receiving 1011 citations. Previous affiliations of Marlyne Sahakian include University of Lausanne & Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.
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Making practice theory practicable: Towards more sustainable forms of consumption
Marlyne Sahakian,Harold Wilhite +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors address the questions: how do changes in practices occur, and what are the levers for influencing change towards more sustainable consumption practices, and explore learning through membership in communities of practice, where people are involved in experiments with or exposure to new practices.
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Coming Full Circle: Why Social and Institutional Dimensions Matter for the Circular Economy
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the circular economy from a biophysical and social perspective to show that the concept lacks the social and institutional dimensions to address the current material and energy throughput in the economy.
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Urban Food Consumption in Metro Manila: Interdisciplinary Approaches Towards Apprehending Practices, Patterns, and Impacts
TL;DR: In this article, the authors adopt a multidisciplinary approach to relate social practices with the biophysical flows of food products at the household level, focusing on middle-class households in Metro Manila, the Philippines.
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From planetary to societal boundaries: an argument for collectively defined self-limitation
Ulrich Brand,Barbara Muraca,Éric Pineault,Marlyne Sahakian,Anke Schaffartzik,Andreas Novy,Christoph Streissler,Helmut Haberl,Viviana Asara,Kristina Dietz,Miriam Lang,Ashish Kothari,Tone Smith,Clive L. Spash,Alina Brad,Melanie Pichler,Christina Plank,Christina Plank,Giorgos Velegrakis,Giorgos Velegrakis,Thomas Jahn,Angela Carter,Qingzhi Huan,Giorgos Kallis,Joan Martínez Alier,Gabriel Vicente Riva,Vishwas Satgar,Emiliano Teran Mantovani,Michelle Williams,Markus Wissen,Christoph Görg +30 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors bring a critical social science perspective to this framework through the notion of societal boundaries and aim to provide a more nuanced understanding of the social nature of thresholds.
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Challenging social norms to recraft practices: a living lab approach to reducing household energy use in eight european countries
Marlyne Sahakian,Henrike Rau,Eoin Grealis,Laurence Godin,Grégoire Wallenborn,Julia Backhaus,Freja Friis,Audley Genus,Gary Goggins,Eimear Heaslip,Eva Heiskanen,Marfuga Iskandarova,Charlotte Louise Jensen,Senja Laakso,Annika Musch,Christian Scholl,Edina Vadovics,Kristóf Vadovics,Véronique Vasseur,Frances Fahy +19 more
TL;DR: The ENERGISE project as mentioned in this paper was the first large-scale European effort to reduce household energy use through a change initiative that adopted a "living lab" approach informed by social practice theory.