Dear colleagues,
There have been some reports of problems with the web address below. If you have difficulties, please use
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/123296535/issue.
Thanks,
Reid Lifset
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Dear colleagues,
The
Journal of Industrial Ecology (
JIE) has recently published a special issue on Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) that I think would be of great interest to you. The papers of this issue are freely downloadable via:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118902538/home?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 The issue is a spin-off of a major European-funded network project on sustainable consumption, called Sustainable Consumption Research Exchanges (SCORE!). The issue consists of two main parts.
The first part of the special issue provides rigorous and comprehensive insight into the life-cycle impacts of consumption -- what we buy and what we use -- on the environment. Studies from Switzerland, the UK and Australia discuss how income and lifestyle influence impacts of consumption. This work confirms earlier work published in the
JIE that 70 to 80 percent of environmental impacts are attributable to mobility, food, and the home (and related energy use). The second part reports on attempts to nudge consumers towards more sustainable consumption patterns. Papers discuss the role of context, social practices, informative instruments, etc.
The co-editors conclude that industrial ecologists have come to understand the environmental impacts of contemporary consumption practices in great detail, but that knowledge is much less mature about how to stimulate sustainable lifestyles. The editors argue that assessment of viable pathways to realize societal change toward more sustainable systems of consumption and production should become the priority focus for future research.. This is also reflected by rather different views on this agenda of change in columns by Mohan Munasinghe of the University of Manchester's Sustainable Consumption Institute, Randall Krantz of the World Economic Forum, and Doreen Fedrigo and John Hontelez of the NGO European Environmental Bureau. In the words of the latter: SCP is an agenda beyond sustainable consumer procurement.
The Special Issue on Sustainable Consumption and Production of
JIE is published as Volume 14 Issue 1 (January/February 2010). It was edited by:
- Arnold Tukker (TNO, Netherlands)
- Maurie Cohen (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US)
- Klaus Hubacek (Leeds University, UK)
- Oksana Mont (Lund University, Sweden)
Sincerely,
Reid Lifset
Editor-in-chief
Journal of Industrial Ecology
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