Consumption Corridors: Living a Good Life within Sustainable Limits

Consumption Corridors: Living a Good Life within Sustainable Limits explores how to enhance people's chances to live a good life in a world of ecological and social limits. It explains fundamental concepts of the good life and explores forces that threaten it, offering a remedy through consumption corridors enabled by citizen engagement and deliberative democracy.

\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 94 pages
\n Publication date: 04 March 2021
\n Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Consumption Corridors: Living a Good Life within Sustainable Limits delves into the realm of enhancing individuals' prospects for a fulfilling existence in a world characterized by ecological and social constraints. By departing from the conventional narratives of ecological decline and planetary boundaries, this concise book presents a spirited exploration of the universal desire for a good life. Fundamental concepts of the good life are elucidated and examined, alongside the forces that pose threats to its enjoyment for all. The authors of this book, drawn from seven different countries, argue that the remedy lies in the concept of consumption corridors, facilitated by mechanisms of citizen engagement and deliberative democracy.

Spanning five concise chapters, readers are invited into a dialogue about how well-being can be enriched through social change that harmonizes the satisfaction of needs with consumerist restraint, social justice, and environmental sustainability. It is crucial to establish lower limits of consumption to ensure minimal needs fulfillment for all, drawing upon precedents that exist. However, the authors also emphasize the importance of upper limits to consumption, which are attainable and particularly relevant in domains where such limits enhance rather than undermine essential freedoms.

This book holds significant appeal to students and scholars engaged in the social sciences, humanities, environmental and sustainability studies, as well as community activists and the broader public. The Open Access version of this book, accessible at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780367748746, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

\n Weight: 258g\n
Dimension: 142 x 222 x 14 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780367748722\n \n