Consumption Corridors av Doris Fuchs, Marlyne Sahakian, Tobias (Institute of Political Science WWU Munster Germany) Gumbert, Antonietta Di Giulio, Mic

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<P><EM>Consumption Corridors: Living a Good Life within Sustainable Limits</EM> explores how to enhance peoples¿ chances to live a good life in a world of ecological and social limits. </P><P>Rejecting familiar recitations of problems of ecological decline and planetary boundaries, this compact book instead offers a spirited explication of what everyone desires: a good life. Fundamental concepts of the good life are explained and explored, as are forces that threaten the good life for all. The remedy, says the book¿s seven international authors, lies with the concept of consumption corridors, enabled by mechanisms of citizen engagement and deliberative democracy. </P><P>Across five concise chapters, readers are invited into conversation about how wellbeing can be enriched by social change that joins "needs satisfaction" with consumerist restraint, social justice, and environmental sustainability. In this endeavour, lower limits of consumption that ensure minimal needs satisfaction for