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Editorial: Cultural change for a bearable climate
Only by intentionally harnessing key societal institutions—namely education, business, the media, government, traditions, and social movements—will we be able to transform... -
User satisfaction and sustainability of drinking water schemes in rural commu...
Water-supply programs consist of three essential components: technology, people, and institutions. The interface of these facets determines whether a particular scheme is... -
Sustainable food consumption: when evidence-based policy making meets policy-...
Unsustainability of Current Global Food Consumption Food is a major issue in the politics of sustainable consumption and production (SCP) because of its impact on the... -
Community Essay: Sustainable approach to automobile society in Japan
What is the difference between electric vehicles (EVs) in society and an EV society? “EVs in society” means simply the replacement of gasoline-powered cars with EVs without... -
Introduction: Human response to environmental decline at the forest frontier
Scientific insights about the places where the greatest environmental costs (and human welfare losses) might be avoided has too frequently been misperceived as knowledge about... -
Challenging knowledge hierarchies: working toward sustainable development in ...
This paper analyzes sustainable development practices within Sri Lanka’s energy sector. It directs attention to how expertise functions in development decision making in ways... -
How much is too much? A public opinion research perspective
IntroductionPublic sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail. Without it nothing can succeed.-Abraham Lincoln, in debate with Steven Douglas,... -
Going beyond efficiency: including altruistic motives in behavioral models fo...
Sustainability transitions require altered individual behaviors. Policies aimed at changing people’s consumption behavior are designed according to efficiency, consistency, and... -
The three-front war: pursuing sustainability in a world shaped by explosive g...
This article characterizes the pursuit of sustainability as a three-front war. Success requires reductions not only in the environmental impact per unit of economic activity,... -
Editorial: Why should I?
Furthermore, I believe that given their head start in being necessarily embedded in complementary studies that cross disciplines, sustainability scientists can, by example,... -
Communityn Essay: Speaking of sustainability: the potential of metaphor
This essay explores how, through metaphor, pro-ponents of sustainable consumption can shift from a worldview that is linear, mechanistic, reductionist, expansionist, and... -
Carbon calculators as a tool for a low-carbon everyday life?
The number of Internet-based carbon calculators that estimate personal carbon footprints has been growing in recent years. This article discusses the roles that these... -
Consumption embedded in culture and language: implications for finding sustai...
AbstractIn this article I ask how deeply consumer culture has become embedded in contemporary American society. I suggest that we need to begin with greater conceptual clarity,... -
Developing and disseminating a foodprint tool to raise awareness about health...
Introduction Geographical Boundaries of Food Production In recent decades, researchers have proposed several indicators to characterize the environmental impact of cities,...
