61-038 Sustainable consumption
second cycle Master degree study programme Management of Sustainable Development
Course Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Armand Faganel
Content
- Introduction: SCP policies; consumption in terms of human development; Rationale for sustainable consumption, Consumption and its externalities - Economy and ecology
- Framing Sustainable Consumption: Analysis of household consumption in European countries and cities; Responsibility for sustainable consumption - environmental impacts on households; Challenges for sustainable consumption policy
- Resisting consumerism: Dubious benefits of consumption; New fetishism of goods; faked links, simpler life; intentional simplicity - characterization of selected psychological implications and societal consequences; Diderot’s lesson - stop growing the avalanche of desire
- Resistance simplicity: Example of SCP policies and poverty morality; Relative poverty - Communication Why enough is never enough? ; Apparent power assets - preserving hopes and ideals, Consumer Discretionary and Discretionary spending
- Repositioning of sustainable consumption: Efficiency and Consumption - technologies and practices, Does the rationalization of lifestyles make sense?; Ethics consumption, Costs and benefits of consumption, Consumer paradise - Social and cultural psychology of sustainable consumption
- Sustainable consumption and quality of life: Societal challenges - dealing with poverty, Environmental challenges, Economic challenges - new production and consumption model for a globalized economy, Focus on the goal - a sustainable improvement in the quality of life; Mobilization of social forces - a new social contract , resource mobilization
- Sustainable Tourism: Sustainable tourism consumption of culture, Heritage conservation, Historic houses, Museums
- Sustainable energy consumption: Limitations of energy resources; Challenges of sustainable energy consumption, Alternative sources, Consumer education; Regulations