Keywords:
Environmental policy.
;
Electronic books.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (165 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783865818911
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=6389244
DDC:
363.7
Language:
English
Note:
Intro -- Table of content -- Foreword What this book is for -- Introduction Why the Good Life is a political issue -- What's does 'sufficiency' mean? Finding the way to a whole life -- Why sufficiency is a social issue as well - sustainability policy beyond the efficiency revolution -- The politics of sufficiency as a contribution to an enlightened liberalism -- The essential elements of the politics of sufficiency -- The politics of sufficiency - an approach along four dimensions -- Chapter I Framing - The prospects for a new institutional politics -- New measures of prosperity - orienting our politics correctly -- Institutional politics and competition policy to protect the commons -- Creating an infrastructure that supports sufficiency -- Towards a distribution policy that encourages sufficiency -- Chapter II Orienting - The right measures for time and space, property and the market -- Less speed - doing politics at the right tempo -- Less distance - a life rooted in the region -- Less clutter - decluttering and the politics of less -- Less market - prosperity beyond the marketplace -- Chapter III Shaping - Mobility, Housing, Food: implementing policies for the Good Life in practice -- Housing -- Mobility -- Food -- Chapter IV Enabling - Creating resources for sufficiency through employment, education, health and consumer policy -- Health, sufficiency and the Good Life -- Making Good Work easier -- Education for the Good Life -- Consumer policy -- Chapter V Civil society, business and research as agents for a politics of sufficiency -- Civil society -- Business -- Research -- Conclusion How to contribute to the politics of sufficiency -- The four pathways to a politics of sufficiency -- References and further reading -- Acknowledgements -- About the authors.
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