We all understand the basic principles underpinning marketing activity: to identify unfulfilled needs and desires and boost demand for the solutions a product is offering. The mantra is always ""sell more"". De-marketing tries for the very opposite. Why would a company actively try to decrease...

1. Demarketing : an overview of the antecedents and current status of the discipline / Nigel Bradley and Jim Blythe -- 2. Synchromarketing / Maria Pilar Martinez-Ruiz -- 3. Synchromarketing : demarketing places / Gary Warnaby and Dominic Medway -- 4. Countermarketing in a wicked problem context...