Sustainable Consumption and Production: Mapping the Conceptual Terrain

Jayati Srivastava ()
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Jayati Srivastava: Jawaharlal Nehru University

Chapter Chapter 2 in Sustainable Consumption and Production, Volume I, 2021, pp 19-38 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter maps the genealogy and meaning of the concept of sustainable consumption and production (SCP). It examines the complexity related to its definitional exactitude, policy measurability, targets and indicators, and the gap between intent and outcomes. It delineates the development–environment conundrum and the important steps taken by the international community to reconcile the two, leading to the adoption of the framework of sustainable development. It argues that ethical and moral motivations can bring about behavioural changes towards responsible consumption and production practices. This entails foregrounding ethics of sustainability in addition to invoking the harm principle which applies to both the concerns of environment and development, and promises to contribute to building robust pathways for achieving SCP.

Keywords: Sustainable development; Sustainable development goals; Harm principle; Ethics of sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-56371-4_2

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