Routledge-SCORAI Studies in Sustainable Consumption
About the Book Series
The past decade has seen a remarkable increase in academic and policy interest in the notion of sustainable consumption, particularly as the implementation challenges associated with a substantive international agreement on climate protection have become apparent.
Comprising edited collections, co-authored volumes and single author monographs, Routledge-SCORAI Studies in Sustainable Consumption aims to continue this process of intellectual consolidation, while simultaneously advancing conceptual and empirical contributions to this new and important field of study. In particular, this series will explore key issues such as the emergence of new modes of household provisioning, the evolution toward post-consumerist systems of social organization, novel approaches to consumption governance and innovative business models for sustainable lifestyles.
If you are interested in submitting a proposal, please contact Annabelle Harris, Editor for Environment and Sustainability: [email protected]
The Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative (SCORAI) is an international knowledge network of approximately 1000 scholars and policy practitioners working at the interface of material consumption, human well-being, and technological and cultural change. For more information about SCORAI and its activities please visit http://scorai.net
Vocabulary for Sustainable Consumption and Lifestyles: A Language for Our Common Future
1st Edition
Edited
By Lewis Akenji, Philip J. Vergragt, Halina Szejnwald Brown, Thomas S.J. Smith, Laura Maria Wallnöfer
September 29, 2025
Vocabulary for Sustainable Consumption and Lifestyles: a Language for our Common Future curates a shared vocabulary of concepts that enables a society-wide conversation about sustainable consumption and lifestyles, the future of consumer society, and ways to transcend it. Since the United Nations (...
Consuming the Environment
1st Edition
Edited
By Myra J. Hird
November 29, 2024
Consuming the Environment explores the environmental impacts of consuming everyday products and explains how we can consume more sustainably. Written in an accessible style, this book begins with our everyday mundane experiences of consuming products – online, in the grocery store, at the mall – ...
Sustainable Products in the Circular Economy: Impact on Business and Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Magdalena Wojnarowska, Marek Ćwiklicki, Carlo Ingrao
January 29, 2024
This book explores how the circular economy influences product design in today’s business and society. Drawing on contributions from a wide range of expert thinkers, this volume assesses the existing approaches, strategies and tools which facilitate socially and environmentally responsible ...
Teaching and Learning Sustainable Consumption: A Guidebook
1st Edition
Edited
By Daniel Fischer, Marlyne Sahakian, Jordan King, Jen Dyer, Gill Seyfang
May 08, 2023
This book is a comprehensive guide on how to teach sustainable consumption in higher education. Teaching and Learning Sustainable Consumption: A Guidebook systematizes the themes, objectives, and theories that characterize sustainable consumption as an educational field. The first part of the book...
Sustainable Lifestyles after Covid-19
1st Edition
By Fabián Echegaray, Valerie Brachya, Philip J. Vergragt, Lei Zhang
January 09, 2023
This book takes an in-depth look at Covid-19-generated societal trends and develops scenarios for possible future directions of urban lifestyles. Drawing on examples from Brazil, China, and Israel, and with a particular focus on cities, this book explores the short and long-term changes in ...
The Low-Carbon Good Life
1st Edition
By Jules Pretty
December 30, 2022
The Low-Carbon Good Life is about how to reverse and repair four interlocking crises arising from modern material consumption: the climate crisis, growing inequality, biodiversity loss and food-related ill-health. Across the world today and throughout history, good lives are characterised by ...
Narrating Sustainability through Storytelling
1st Edition
Edited
By Daniel Fischer, Sonja Fücker, Hanna Selm, Anna Sundermann
December 08, 2022
Stories and narratives are powerful tools for explaining the world around us. This book explores storytelling as a way of engaging audiences with sustainable development issues and reflects on the opportunities and limitations of storytelling for sustainability as an innovative approach to ...
Subsistence Agriculture in the US: Reconnecting to Work, Nature and Community
1st Edition
By Ashley Colby
April 29, 2022
Focusing on ethnography and interviews with subsistence food producers, this book explores the resilience, innovation and creativity taking place in subsistence agriculture in America. To date, researchers interested in alternative food networks have often overlooked the somewhat hidden, ...
Local Consumption and Global Environmental Impacts: Accounting, Trade-offs and Sustainability
1st Edition
By Kuishuang Feng, Klaus Hubacek, Yang Yu
August 27, 2019
This book describes how local consumption, particularly in urban areas, is increasingly met by global supply chains. These supply chains often extend over large geographical distances and have greater global environmental impacts, contributing to pollution, climate change, water scarcity, and ...