Böcker i Routledge-SCORAI Studies in Sustainable Consumption-serien

The Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative (SCORAI) has, with financial support from the V. K. Rasmussen Foundation, been sponsoring a year-long colloquium on social change and sustainable consumption. This book is the capstone of this multifaceted project and brings together leading interdisciplinary experts on these developments and aims to provide a systematic understanding of the challenges and opportunities created by these new arrangements for provisioning goods and services, deriving and expressing personal identity, and engaging in processes of social and cultural communication.

Bringing together leading thinkers on this topic, this book leads to compelling new insights for an international audience into the potential of social innovation for sustainable consumption and the transformation of society.

This volume presents empirical and theoretical illustrations of the various means through which politics and power influence (un)sustainable consumption practices, policies and perspectives. The authors discuss why current efforts have largely failed to meet environmental targets and explore promising directions for research, policy and practice.

This book explores how the circular economy influences product design in today¿s business and society.

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 sustainability communication.Bringing together voices and perspectives from research and practice, this volume explores the ways in which storytelling can support change toward sustainability. Unlike other anthologies, the book first provides a sound scientific basis by unfolding the storytelling approach and presenting empirical studies on its impact on effects. It clarifies important terms and presents recent findings on the impact of storytelling on sustainability from an extensive 3-year research project on this question. The second part shows how storytelling can be used in different fields of practice to communicate sustainability in more engaging and effective ways. Here, the main focus is on not only case-based accounts of positive change, but also tensions, arising from the application of storytelling for sustainability in journalism, higher education, corporate communication, or science communication.Combining theory with practical examples, this innovative book will be a great resource for students and scholars of environmental communication and sustainable development, as well as professionals working in related fields.

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 sustainability communication.

Bringing together leading thinkers on this topic, this book leads to compelling new insights for an international audience into the potential of social innovation for sustainable consumption and the transformation of society.