Overview
Provides a multidisciplinary approach to the transformation of production and markets towards sustainable development
Examines how behavioral insights can be leveraged by governments, international organizations, and businesses to promote more sustainable markets
Discusses the challenges and opportunities created through changes to consumption and production
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- Sustainability Index
- Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture
- Sustainable Reproductive Health Production
- Incentives for Technological Development
- Policies for Sustainable Consumption and Production
- Shaping Sustainable Markets
- New Technologies for Sustainability
- Achieving Sustainable Production
- Creative Destruction
- Feminist Ecological Economics
- Sustainability in Business Education
- Sustainable Development Goals
About this book
Economic growth and increasing population impose long-term risks to the environment and society. Approaches to address the impact of consumption and production on bio-diversity loss, resource availability, climate change, and mounting waste problems on land and in seas have yet not proven to be successful. This calls for innovative approaches to address the complex environmental, social, and economic interrelationships that have to be addressed in transforming to sustainable development.
Sustainable Consumption and Production, Volume I: Challenges and Development aims to explore critical global challenges and addresses how consumers, producers, the private sector, international organizations, and governments can play an active role in innovating businesses to support a transitioning towards sustainable consumption and production. The book explores different approaches and innovations to address sustainable consumption and production. It details multiple social and economic contexts to the challenges and developments towards a sustainable consumption and production. The book is of interest to economists, students, businesses, and policymakers.
Chapter 14 and chapter 15 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ranjula Bali Swain is Visiting Professor and Research Director at Center for Sustainability Research (CSR) & Misum, Stockholm School of Economics and Professor of Economics, Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden. Her research focusses on sustainable development, environmental economics and development.
Susanne Sweet is Associate Professor and Research Director at Center for Sustainability Research, Stockholm School of Economics. Sweet’s research covers a broad range of topics on corporate sustainability and responsibility and she has for the past eight years been the research manager for a large cross disciplinary research program on circular fashion.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sustainable Consumption and Production, Volume I
Book Subtitle: Challenges and Development
Editors: Ranjula Bali Swain, Susanne Sweet
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56371-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56370-7Published: 20 March 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56373-8Published: 20 March 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-56371-4Published: 19 March 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 447
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Economics, Development Economics, International Business, Economic Psychology