NDLI: Greening the Danes? Experience with consumption and environment policies

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Author	Christensen, Toke Haunstrup Godskesen, Mirjam Gram Hanssen, Kirsten Quitzau, Maj Britt Røpke, Inge
Copyright Year	2007
Abstract	Consumer-oriented environmental policies came high on the political agenda during the 1990s. Internationally, consumers were assigned a key role in environmental policies; also in Denmark, political initiatives were taken to promote sustainable consumer behaviour. In this article, the results of Danish policies related to consumption and environment are assessed by considering first, the environmental impacts of the political measures, and second, whether the policies have succeeded in addressing the dynamics behind increasing consumption. The study combines a theoretical understanding of consumption as an inseparable part of daily practices with empirical analyses of three fields of consumption: housing, transportation, and information and communication technology. It is pointed out that policies to promote sustainable consumption are successful only when technological development, economic structures, and information are all in accordance with each other, and this is the case only when sustainable consumption does not conflict with economic growth. A more fundamental critique thus concerns the failure of Danish consumer-oriented environmental policies to address consumption growth and the rising standards for “normal consumption.”
Starting Page	91
Ending Page	116
Page Count	26
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01687034
Journal	Journal of Consumer Policy
Volume Number	30
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15730700
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers
Publisher Date	2007-04-05
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Consumer-oriented environmental policy Sustainable consumption Housing Transport Information and communication technology Denmark Commercial Law Economic Policy Marketing Social Sciences
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Economics and Econometrics Business, Management and Accounting

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