This paper investigates the role of consumption in the emergence of the motion picture industry in Britain France and the US. A time-lag of at least twelve years between the invention of cinema and the film industry’s take-off suggests that the latter was not mainly technology-driven. In all...

Contents: 1. Introduction to Sustainable Consumption, Production and Supply Chain Management -- PART I UNSUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION -- 2. Sustainable consumption: an intractable problem? -- 3. Learning from the crisis -- 4. A transition phase: 'reconfiguration' -- 5. Consumption and our place in...