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The United Nations includes analyses of efficiency, infrastructure, and waste, as well as access to basic services, green and decent jobs, and a better quality of life for all within the concept of sustainable consumption. [4] Sustainable consumption shares a number of common features and is closely linked to sustainable production and ...
Sustainable housing consumption choices—More emphasis on purchasing homes constructed using sustainable materials and choosing and creating homes with high levels of insulation and energy efficiency. This also involves energy usage within the home based on sustainable energy source, and the avoidance of energy waste while living in the home ...
An Introduction to Sustainable Development is a 2007 Earthscan book [1] [2] which presents sustainable development as a process that "meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs". This textbook examines the environmental, economic, and social dimensions of sustainable ...
At an individual level, most sustainable diets promote reduced consumption of meat and dairy products due to the particularly adverse environmental impact of these industries. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Data on the intersection between food and sustainability has been prioritized by a variety of international bodies such as the United Nations Food and ...
Vision 2050: Roadmap for a Sustainable Earth. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 978-4-431-09430-2. Archived from the original on 2012-12-11. Huesemann, M.H., and J.A. Huesemann (2011). Technofix: Why Technology Won't Save Us or the Environment, Chapter 6, "Sustainability or Collapse", New Society Publishers. Jackson, T. (2011).
More generally, circular development is a model of economic, social, and environmental production and consumption that aims to build an autonomous and sustainable society in tune with the issue of environmental resources. [25] The circular economy aims to transform our economy into one that is regenerative.
Sustainable consumption is, for men, a way to reinforce their social image, showing to others that they care about environment, whereas for women sustainable consumption is intrinsically important. The evidence is that green consumers are mainly female, aged between 30 and 44 years old, well educated, in a household with a high annual income. [8]
Green growth is a concept in economic theory and policymaking used to describe paths of economic growth that are environmentally sustainable. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] [ 25 ] It is based on the understanding that as long as economic growth remains a predominant goal, a decoupling of economic growth from resource use and adverse environmental impacts is ...