Environmentally sustainable household consumption: from aggregate environmental pressures to priority fields of action
时间： 2016-01-05 作者： Joachim H Spangenbe
作者： Joachim H Spangenberg, Sylvia Lorek
作者单位： 1Sustainable Europe Research Institute Cologne, Grosse Telegraphenstr. 1, D 50676 Cologne, Germany
刊名： Ecological Economics, 2002, Vol.43 (2), pp.127-140
来源数据库： Elsevier Journal
DOI： 10.1016/S0921-8009(02)00212-4
关键词： Sustainable consumption; Consumption clusters; Environmental space; Indicators; Land use; Material flows;
英文摘要： Unsustainable consumption patterns of the North (or rather of the global affluent consumers class) have been identified by Agenda 21 as one of the key driving forces behind the unsustainable development. However, neither accounting based on the system of national accounts SNA nor household economics provide the proper instruments to assess the environmental impact of household decision making. Eco-efficiency assessments as familiar in the business sector provide no appropriate tool for households. As an alternative an environmental space based assessment scheme is suggested covering the major pressures on the environment caused by household decisions. The methodology is used twice: once to analyse the environmental relevance of the main activity clusters of household consumption and once to identify the dominant acts of consumption within each cluster. The latter provide the basis for deriving environmental performance indicators. A rough analysis of household influence potentials permits to identify housing, eating and mobility as the three priority fields for action for minimising the environmental impact of households. Extending the influence analysis actor matrixes are derived allocating influence and thus responsibility for environmental pressures to different groups of economic agents.
作者单位： 1Sustainable Europe Research Institute Cologne, Grosse Telegraphenstr. 1, D 50676 Cologne, Germany
刊名： Ecological Economics, 2002, Vol.43 (2), pp.127-140
来源数据库： Elsevier Journal
DOI： 10.1016/S0921-8009(02)00212-4
关键词： Sustainable consumption; Consumption clusters; Environmental space; Indicators; Land use; Material flows;
英文摘要： Unsustainable consumption patterns of the North (or rather of the global affluent consumers class) have been identified by Agenda 21 as one of the key driving forces behind the unsustainable development. However, neither accounting based on the system of national accounts SNA nor household economics provide the proper instruments to assess the environmental impact of household decision making. Eco-efficiency assessments as familiar in the business sector provide no appropriate tool for households. As an alternative an environmental space based assessment scheme is suggested covering the major pressures on the environment caused by household decisions. The methodology is used twice: once to analyse the environmental relevance of the main activity clusters of household consumption and once to identify the dominant acts of consumption within each cluster. The latter provide the basis for deriving environmental performance indicators. A rough analysis of household influence potentials permits to identify housing, eating and mobility as the three priority fields for action for minimising the environmental impact of households. Extending the influence analysis actor matrixes are derived allocating influence and thus responsibility for environmental pressures to different groups of economic agents.
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