Stress, affluence and sustainable consumption /
Why do affluent consumers almost automatically acquire new versions or variations of products already at their disposal? Even though most of us know that this novelty consumption poses a serious threat to an environmentally and socially sustainable future, we continue to do it. Why? Research shows t...
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| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge / Earthscan,
2018
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| Series: | Routledge studies in sustainability
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the sustainability of affluent consumption
- The sustainability of affluent consumption from a stress perspective
- A sociological stress theory framework
- Environmental marketplace stressors : too much perceptual input
- Internalized marketplace induced stressors
- "idealized identity" overload
- Structural life-style stressors
- "work and consumption rich, time poor"
- Coping with marketplace stressors
- Consumer coping strategies and sustainable consumption outcomes
- Consumer stress and stress coping in relation to well-being
- Promoting affluent sustainable consumption from a stress perspective : a theoretical outlook