Index

Jennifer Moore Bernstein (University of Southern California, USA)
Robert O. Vos (University of Southern California, USA)

SDG12 – Sustainable Consumption and Production: A Revolutionary Challenge for the 21st Century

ISBN: 978-1-78973-102-6, eISBN: 978-1-78973-099-9

Publication date: 8 November 2021

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Bernstein, J.M. and Vos, R.O. (2021), "Index", SDG12 – Sustainable Consumption and Production: A Revolutionary Challenge for the 21st Century (Concise Guides to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 131-137. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78973-099-920211008

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INDEX

“Access over ownership”
, 51

Agricultural intensification
, 37

“Aid for Trade” programs
, 98

Algramo
, 54

Anti-consumerism
, 25, (see also Green consumerism)

Anti-consumerist

approaches
, 45

social movement
, 28

Anti-materialism
, 21, 25–29, 117–120

Anti-neoliberal movements
, 21

Apple, Inc.
, 88

Appropriated carrying capacity
, 34

Arts and Entertainment Network
, 26

Asset sharing platforms
, 52–53

“Autonomous self”
, 26

Basel Convention
, 93–95

Biodiversity loss
, 3

Biocapacity
, 36

Bourgeois primitivism
, 29

Brand storytelling
, 27

Business strategy, CE as
, 83–88

Business-to-consumer reuse models
, 54

Capitalism
, 32

expansionary
, 9

Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP)
, 113

Circular economy approach (CE approach)
, 28, 73–74

as economic development or business strategy
, 83–86

EPR policies
, 89–93

general challenges for achieving circular economies
, 88–89

global trade policies
, 93–98

in industrial ecology
, 76–83

principles of
, 74–76

strategies in businesses
, 86–88

Circular procurement policies
, 85

Climate change
, 3, 12

Commodity
, 23, 48

chains
, 45

procurement
, 55

Common but differentiated responsibilities (CBDR)
, 2

Communication strategies
, 61–65

Community-based social marketing
, 65

Confirmation bias
, 50, 65

Consumers
, 48, 61, 119

Consumption
, 47

anti-materialism
, 25–29

critics of
, 25

degrowth
, 29–33

dematerialization
, 22–24

ecological footprint
, 33–39

Contemporary environmental movement
, 6

Content analysis
, 13

Corporate sustainability reporting
, 125–126

Covid-19 Pandemic
, 97

Cradle-to-cradle manufacturing
, 2

Creative destruction
, 24

Damaging mining techniques
, 121–122

Data proliferation
, 124

Deep Ecology movement
, 16

Deficit model
, 12, 49, 64

Degrowth concept
, 21, 29–33

Dematerialization
, 21, 22–24, 120–122

Design for environment (DfE)
, 91–92

Design for Recycling (DfR)
, 91–92

Dolphin Safe Tuna campaign
, 56–58, 63

Duales System Deutschland (DSD)
, 89–90

Ecological accounting
, 35

Ecological activists
, 13

Ecological economics
, 1, 14, 22

Ecological footprint (EF)
, 21, 33–39

Ecomodernists
, 13

Economic development, CE as
, 83–86

Economic principles of neoliberalism
, 10

Economic systems
, 25

Economics
, 85

Education for sustainable citizenship
, 118–119

Electronic waste
, 91

Emissions trading
, 12

End-of-life paths
, 79, 82

Environment[al]
, 85

degradation
, 7

neoliberalism
, 14–15

politics
, 11–13

Environmental, social, and governance investment managers (ESG investment managers)
, 114

Environmentalism
, 11–13, 32

“Ephemeralization”
, 23

Epistemic communities
, 59

Equity
, 85

Ex situ work
, 124

Expansionary capitalism
, 9

Extended global commodity chains
, 2

Extended producer responsibility (EPR)
, 74, 89, 123

policies
, 89–93

FareShare
, 87

Food

donations
, 87

retail strategies
, 87

value chain
, 86–87

waste
, 47–48, 62, 87–88

Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)
, 2, 55–56

Free market
, 10

Geoforum
, 12

Global Footprint Network (GFN)
, 35–36, 38

Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
, 113

framework for sustainability reporting
, 125

Global trade policies
, 93–98

Green consumerism
, 14, 21, 46, (see also Neoliberalism)

communication strategies
, 61–65

movement
, 25

products as services
, 50–54

SDG12
, 45–47

strategies to reduce consumption
, 47–50

sustainable commodity procurement systems
, 55–60

Green products
, 62

Green Revolution [1960]
, 31

Greenwashing phenomenon
, 46, 62

Harvey, David
, 11

Human–environment relationship
, 16

Humans
, 12

IKEA [furniture giant]
, 52

Immaterialization
, 23

In situ fieldwork
, 124

In-home conservation
, 14

Individual

pro-environmental choices
, 119

suppliers
, 59

Individualism
, 14, 25

Industrial ecology
, 73

CE in
, 76–83

Industrial lifestyle
, 35

Information

dissemination
, 65

information-based campaigns
, 65

technology
, 23

Intensification
, 31

agricultural
, 37

International agreements
, 123–125

International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
, 85–86

ISO-conforming LCA studies
, 59–60

Just-in-time models
, 48

Justice-oriented approach
, 15

Keynianism
, 11

Knowledge-attitudes-behavior model
, 119

Labor-intensiveness
, 54

Liberalism
, 9

Life cycle assessment (LCA)
, 76, 79, 82

studies
, 59–60

Life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA)
, 83, 117, 126

“Light green” approach
, 21

Liquid modernity
, 25

Local buy-nothing groups
, 28

Lockean Liberalism
, 9

Malthusianism
, 21, 30, 33

Marine Mammal Protection Act
, 57

Marine Stewardship Council (MSC)
, 55–56

Marketers
, 61

Marrakech Process
, 8

Marrakech Task Force
, 121

Material footprint
, 36–37

Materials flow analysis (MFA)
, 76, 79

Meta-analysis of commodity chain governance
, 58–59

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
, 5

Modernization theory
, 31

National action plans for sustainability education
, 120

National Sword Policy
, 96, 124

Neo-Malthusianism
, 1, 21

Neoliberal framing of targets and indicators
, 115

anti-materialism
, 117–120

corporate sustainability reporting
, 125–126

dematerialization
, 120–122

existing initiatives and potential advancements in SCP
, 116–117

extended producer responsibility
, 123

international agreements
, 123–125

sustainable commodity procurement systems
, 122–123

Neoliberal valuation
, 12

Neoliberalism
, 12, 21, (see also Green consumerism)

environmentalism, environmental politics and
, 11–13

and sustainability
, 8–11

Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)
, 2, 55, 113

One way communications campaigns
, 63

Organization for Cooperation and Development (OECD)
, 95

“Overconsumption”
, 1

Packaging
, 87

Performative microscale consumption behaviors
, 119

Philips company
, 51–52

Policy systems
, 89

Political movement
, 32

Polyethylene terephthalate (PET)
, 97

Population and consumption
, 7

Post-consumer plastic wastes
, 97

Post-Fordist economy
, 47–48

Prescriptions
, 3

Private sphere environmentalism
, 61

Private-sphere behaviors
, 61

Pro-environmental

attitudes
, 3

behavior
, 50

purchasing
, 61

Procurement
, 85

Producer responsibility organization (PRO)
, 90

Producers
, 61

Products as services model
, 50–54

Public sector
, 122

Purchasing decisions
, 61

Quality of life
, 15

Quantitative indicators
, 115

Rational decision-making
, 15

Rebound effect
, 22, 114, 119

Reduce, reuse, and recycle hierarchy (3 R’s hierarchy)
, 74, 79

Reform
, 13

Reformers
, 14–15

Reuse
, 53–54

Revolution
, 13

Revolutionary/revolutionaries
, 15–16, 54

Rheaply
, 53

Rio Conference [1992]
, 8

Rotterdam Convention
, 94

Scrap materials
, 95

Self-interest
, 15

“Silent Spring”
, 6

“Slow food” movement
, 26

Smart Growth Reformers (SGRs)
, 9, 13

Smith, Adam [father of free market economics]
, 10

Social change
, 15

Social LCA (S-LCA)
, 83

Social marketing
, 50

Social psychology principles
, 64

Stockholm Convention
, 94

Subscription-based model 52

Sustainability
, 7, 21–22, 32–33, 55

neoliberalism and
, 8–11

Sustainable commodity procurement systems
, 55–60, 122–123

Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP)
, 1–2, 4–5, 7, 8, 47

existing initiatives and potential advancements in
, 116–117

Sustainable consumption credit
, 54

Sustainable development
, 32

Sustainable Development Goal 12 (SDG12)
, 1–4, 30, 32, 45–46, 73–75, 107–109, 121–122

environmental discourses
, 13–14, 16–17

history
, 6–8

neoliberalism, environmentalism, and environmental politics
, 11–13

neoliberalism and sustainability
, 8–11

overview and relation to other sustainable development goals
, 5–6

public engage with
, 17–18

reformers
, 14–15

revolutionaries
, 15–16

targets and status of indicators
, 109–112

theoretical underpinnings of
, 8

Sustainable procurement
, 86

programs
, 85

systems
, 55

Technological innovation
, 3, 31

Trade-in program
, 87

Traditional consumerism
, 25

Type I ecosystems
, 76–77, 78

Type II ecosystems
, 77, 78

Type III ecosystems
, 77, 78

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
, 97

UN Climate Change summit [2019]
, 30

UN Environmental Programme
, 121

UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
, 5, 30, 32–33, 45, 107

existing set of indicators
, 109–115

moving beyond neoliberal framing of targets and indicators
, 115–126

SDGs 1
, 5–6

SDGs 2
, 6

SDGs 3
, 6

SDGs 6
, 6

SDGs 8
, 6

SDGs 10
, 6

SDGs 11
, 6

UN Sustainable Solutions Development Network (SSDN)
, 109, 112

UnBuilders
, 54

United Nations Environmental Programme
, 85

Unsustainable production and consumption
, 47

US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
, 74

Waste
, 28, 84, 97

electronic
, 91

food
, 47–48, 62, 87–88

hierarchy alternative paths
, 80–81

post-consumer plastic
, 97

“Win-win” case studies
, 12

World Business Council on Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
, 8

Zero waste movement
, 28–29, 84

ZipCar
, 52