Essays about: "non-consumption"

Found 4 essays containing the word non-consumption.

  1. 1. Sustainable Use: A Contentious Promise - A Case Study on International Funding of Consumptive Sustainable Wildlife Use in South Africa's Biodiversity Economy

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Mara Glas; [2022]
    Keywords : biodiversity economy; sustainable use; international conservation finance; community-based conservation; economic development; wildlife economics; South Africa; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In South Africa, sustainable use of wildlife is widely recognized as providing economic incentives and actively engaging rural communities in conservation management. Aiming to combat rampant poverty and wildlife crime in communities around protected areas (PAs), the country’s biodiversity economy envisions to scale (non-)consumptive activities in the pursuit of creating economically and environmentally viable wildlife businesses. READ MORE

  3. 2. How do consumers make sense of sustainable consumption: a study on lived experience and discourses

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Trang Le; Angela Pavasovic; [2018-07-03]
    Keywords : Sustainable consumption; sustainable clothes; sustainable discourses; fashion discourses; identity creation;

    Abstract : This paper investigates the understanding of sustainably conscious consumers on their consumption and non-consumption experience of sustainable clothes from a phenomenological perspective. It further elaborates on the underlying discourses that inform consumers way of understanding sustainable consumption and practices aligned with that understanding. READ MORE

  4. 3. The proof is in the pudding/steak : Halal food consumption, moral overtones and re-negotiation of categories among Muslim believers in Stockholm County

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : Mariapia Rosa Campanella; [2016]
    Keywords : halal food; Muslims Stockholm; food morality;

    Abstract : The main objective of my thesis is showing how consumers who live in Stockholm County deal with the daily practice of halal food providing. I then analyse the main contradiction that emerges from my research, meaning the opposition between those who by ‘halal’ and those who do not. READ MORE

  5. 4. Consuming the City : How does non-consumers experience the city?

    University essay from KTH/Miljöstrategisk analys (fms)

    Author : Pernilla Johansson; [2014]
    Keywords : non-consumption; voluntary simplicity; minimalism; shopping moratorium; capitalistic consumption; urban planning; sustainable development; icke-konsumtion; frivillig enkelhet; minimalism; köpstopp; kapitalistisk konsumtion; stadsplanering; hållbar utveckling;

    Abstract : We often speak of our society as a consumption society, a label that emerged after World War II. But the consumption society dates back longer than that, and can be deduced as far back as the colonialist era and the rise of luxury goods. READ MORE