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  2. Sustainable consumption - Wikipedia

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    Sustainable consumption shares a number of common features and is closely linked to sustainable production and sustainable development. Sustainable consumption, as part of sustainable development, is part of the worldwide struggle against sustainability challenges such as climate change, resource depletion, famines, and environmental pollution.

  3. Assessing the Environmental Impacts of Consumption and ...

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    Demand for meat is expected to double by this date; meat consumption is steadily rising in countries such as China that once followed more sustainable, vegetable-based diets. According to the report: "Impacts from agriculture are expected to increase substantially due to population growth, increasing consumption of animal products.

  4. Sustainable consumer behaviour - Wikipedia

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    Sustainable consumption choices are influenced by habit and routine. Habits can be thought of as procedural strategies to reduce the cognitive effort associated with making choices, particularly in situations that are relatively stable. They allow us to perform routine actions with a minimum of deliberation and often only limited awareness.

  5. An Introduction to Sustainable Development - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Sustainable Development Goal 12 - Wikipedia

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    The targets address different issues ranging from implementing the 10‑Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns (Target 12.1), achieving the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources (Target 12.2), having per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels (Target 12.3 ...

  7. Circular economy - Wikipedia

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    In their book Economics of Natural Resources and the Environment, Pearce and Turner explain the shift from the traditional linear or open-ended economic system to the circular economic system (Pearce and Turner, 1990). [40] They describe an economic system where waste at extraction, production, and consumption stages is turned into inputs.

  8. Sustainability - Wikipedia

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    One distinction is that sustainability is a general concept, while sustainable development can be a policy or organizing principle. Scholars say sustainability is a broader concept because sustainable development focuses mainly on human well-being. [23] Sustainable development has two linked goals. It aims to meet human development goals.

  9. Eco-sufficiency - Wikipedia

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    The sufficiency theory also overlaps with the concept of 'consumption corridors'. This concept emerged notably from a transdisciplinary research program funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research, entitled "From Knowledge to Action – New Paths towards Sustainable Consumption." Consumption corridors define a space between what is ...