Consumption

• Main Authors: RIEGER, Annika Marie, SCHOR, Juliet B.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
• Subjects: consumption; environmental degradation; United Nations Conference on Environment and Development; global South; global North; overconsumption; IPAT equation (Impact = Population × Affluence × Technology); environmental sociology; drivers of consumption; sustainable consumption; sectoral studies; global middle class; climate change; sociological theories; production; state; sociology of consumption; Place and Environment; Sociology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3859; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/5117/viewcontent/Rieger___Schor_2021.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Consumption is a major contributor to environmental degradation and change. However, it was not until 1992—at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development—that consumption was seriously addressed by the global community. The consensus that emerged was that the global South had a “pop...