The shadows of consumption : consequences for the global environment

The shadows of consumption : consequences for the global environment / Peter Dauvergne.

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 consequence...

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Main Author: Dauvergne, Peter (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008.
Subjects:
Consumption (Economics) > Environmental aspects.
Environmentalism.
NATURE > Natural Resources.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Environmental Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Green Business.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
Consumption (Economics) > Environmental aspects
Environmentalism
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Table of Contents:
  • Abbreviations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction The Ecological Shadows of Rising Consumption; 1 An Unbalanced Global Political Economy; 2 Dying of Consumption; I Automobiles; 3 Accidental Dependency? The Road to an Auto World; 4 A Better Ride: Selling Safe and Clean; 5 The Road Tolls; 6 The Globalization of Accidents and Emissions; II Leaded Gasoline; 7 Leaded Science: Pumping Out Profi ts and Risks; 8 Lead Must Go; 9 Taking the Lead Out of Africa; 10 The Globalization of Risk; III Refrigerators; 11 Refrigerating the Ozone Layer; 12 Phasing Out CFC Refrigerators.
  • 13 Selling the "Superior" Refrigerator14 The Globalization of Plugging In; IV Beef; 15 The Efficient Steer: Fast, Fat, and Cheap; 16 The Ecology of Big Beef; 17 Sustainable Beef? Chasing a Stampede of "Regular" Steers; 18 The Globalization of More Meat; V The Harp Seal Hunt; 19 To the Red Ice: Heroes and Overharvesting; 20 The Brutes! Killing Markets with Activism; 21 Hunting Beaters for Globalizing Markets; 22 The Globalization of Slippery Markets; Conclusion Transforming Global Consumption; 23 The Illusions of Environmentalism; 24 A Brighter World Order of Balanced Consumption; Notes.

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