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| Title: | What Triggers and Barriers to Practicing Consumption Ideals Must Be Addressed By Sustainable Consumption Solutions? |
| Authors: | Oberthur, David School of Geosciences |
| Keywords: | consumption sustainable practices ideological psycho-social |
| Issue Date: | 2009 |
| Abstract: | Despite a wealth of knowledge on the psycho-social and ideological functions of personal consumption, we have yet to successfully address unsustainable consumption practices in developed urban spaces. This study develops a contemporary understanding of how people from Sydney engage in their personal consumption practices. Using both focus groups and personal consumption journals, I identified the common consumption considerations of all participants regardless of whether their goal was to minimise or maximise their resource consumption. This data was collected into eight categories of psycho-social and ideological issues that are argued to consistently contribute to the renegotiation of consumption ideals into practices. These results show that personal consumption is a fluid act that occurs anew with each decision. As such, these eight categories offer points of entry to affect sustainable consumption practices. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5777 |
| Department/Unit/Centre: | School of Geosciences |
| Appears in Collections: | Honours Theses |
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