good life in a world of ecological and social limits. Rejecting familiar recitations of problems of ecological decline and … environmental sustainability. In this endeavour, lower limits of consumption that ensure minimal needs satisfaction for all are … students and scholars in the social sciences and humanities, environmental and sustainability studies, but also community …

In this paper we analyze the implications of recycling for long-run economic development. In contrast to former … our model. We focus on the implications of recycling-related market failures and the integration of material balances on …

Due to the positive effect it has on the environment, while also creating social and economic value, recycling … efficient programs, the recycling rate has become a relevant subject to public institutions, but also for the academia … education on the recycling rate of waste. The article has a contribution to the scientific literature, by analyzing the …

introducing the concept of a catalyst as a positive and enhancing driving force for sustainability. Catalysts create and maintain … favourable conditions for complex systemic sustainability transition changes, and a discussion and understanding of catalysts is …, regulation, sustainability policy, product design, and culture. The authors then show how these catalysts accelerate …

paper explores the role of supermarkets and bodegas for consumer recycling behaviour, looking both at already implemented … practices and possibilities for the future. Based on semi-structured interviews conducted with key actors in the recycling … between them and the regulatory framework, as well as specific initiatives undertaken to increase recycling. We then compare …

, green consumerism, regulation, downshifting, localisation etc., and these tools reflect the very different values and …

This book provides novel and in-depth perspectives on evaluating environment and sustainability issues in developing …

this paper I locate the issues of environmental justice within the broader framework of environmental sustainability and … sustainability agenda with a strong social justice content. It has similarities with environmentally informed social justice … movements in the developing world, the so- called environmentalism of the poor. Employing a critical discursive methodology I …

transition toward sustainability, we argue that "green" consumption patterns are not self-reinforcing and cannot be locked in …