作者： L. Michaelis
作者单位： 1Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, 1a Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3SZ, UK
刊名： Journal of Cleaner Production, 2003, Vol.11 (8), pp.931-933
来源数据库： Elsevier Journal
DOI： 10.1016/S0959-6526(02)00154-3
关键词： Sustainable consumption;  Social trends;  Ethics;  Policy;  
英文摘要：  The Oxford Commission on Sustainable Consumption aims to promote debate and action to achieve sustainable consumption. It has met four times since it was established in 1999. Commission members have undertaken a number of projects around the world, working with communities to explore pathways to more sustainable consumption. This paper summarises the Commission’s progress and the messages emerging from its work. Current consumption trends are supported by a number of social trends, including individualisation, the spread of the market ethos, urbanisation, globalisation, and the increasing awareness of risk and uncertainty. However, these trends contain the seeds of their own limitation. In particular, increasing discourse about ethics and social goals may be the key to a shift towards more sustainable consumption.