Grassroots initiatives for change rely on people with limited power, limited resources and limited ability to influence others. From this position, people acting from the bottom up can change their own actions, seek to influence others around them and seek to change the social structures that...

Intro -- Sustainable Consumption -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of boxes -- Foreword -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- PART 1: Introducing sustainable consumption -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- What is sustainable consumption? -- Key ideas...

Introduction : power, politics and unsustainable consumption / Lucie Middlemiss, Cindy Isenhour, Mari Martiskainen -- A consuming globalism : on power and the post-Paris Agreement politics of climate and consumption / Cindy Isenhour -- Practice does not make perfect : sustainable consumption,...

Social scientists from all areas are developing theories and testing practical approaches to change individuals' actions to lower greenhouse gas emissions. In the UK context, policy-makers, local authorities, companies and organisations are using these theories to invest resources to change...