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Encounters and Practices of Petty Trade in Northern Europe, 1820–1960

This open access book uncovers one important, yet forgotten, form of itinerant livelihoods, namely petty trade, more specifically how it was practiced in Northern Europe during the period 1820–1960. It investigates how traders and customers interacted in different spaces and approaches ambulatory trade as an arena of encounters by looking at everyday social practices. Petty traders often belo…

Vulnerable Households in the Energy Transition

This open access book explores the energy transition / energy poverty nexus in the European Union, including the implications of the transition and related policies for the household sector. Written by experts on energy economics, energy studies and related fields, it examines the impacts and costs of the energy transition (including those caused by carbon pricing) for the economy and for famil…

Shopping for good

Where public policy fails, can consumer choices lead the way to more ethical and sustainable production practices?OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

The Interdisciplinary Science of Consumption

Scholars from psychology, neuroscience, economics, animal behavior, and evolution describe the latest research on the causes and consequences of overconsumption.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Treading Softly: Paths to Ecological Order

"We are living beyond our means, running up debts both economic and ecological, consuming the planet's resources at rates not remotely sustainable. But it's hard to imagine a different way. How can we live without cheap goods and easy credit? How can we consume without consuming the systems that support life? How can we live well and live within our means? In Treading Softly, Thomas Princen hel…

The shadows of consumption : Consequences for the Global Environment

An environmentalist maps the hidden costs of overconsumption in a globalized world by tracing the environmental consequences of five commodities.The Shadows of Consumption gives a hard-hitting diagnosis: many of the earth's ecosystems and billions of its people are at risk from the consequences of rising consumption. Products ranging from cars to hamburgers offer conveniences and pleasures; but…

Confronting consumption

Essays that offer ecological, social, and political perspectives on the problem of overconsumption.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability

Documents how racial and social inequalities are built into our food system, and how communities are creating environmentally sustainable and socially just alternatives.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Energy and civilization a history

Extensively updated and expanded edition of the author's Energy in world history (Boulder : Westview Press, 1994).Energy is the only universal currency; it is necessary for getting anything done. The conversion of energy on Earth ranges from terra-forming forces of plate tectonics to cumulative erosive effects of raindrops. Life on Earth depends on the photosynthetic conversion of solar energy …