Handbook «Sustainable consumption and quality of life: towards integrating consumer policy strategies for improved life quality»
Editors: Aleksandra Machnik, Alexandra Zbuchea, Anna Królikowska-Tomczak, Walter Leal Filho
From the very beginning, the contemporary concept of sustainable development has been strongly associated with concern for the quality of life. Therefore it is crucial for people to understand how important relationships between consumption, lifestyle, quality of the environment and quality of life are. Governments should also encourage society to a more sustainable lifestyle by implementing political and economic mechanisms. The problem of sustainable consumption is nowadays so important that the UN has included this issues into 2030 Agenda of Sustainable Development as the Goal 12 – Sustainable consumption and production. As the introduction to this Goal states: Since sustainable consumption and production aims at “doing more and better with less,” net welfare gains from economic activities can increase by reducing resource use, degradation and pollution along the whole life cycle, while increasing quality of life.
Based on these premises, it seems reasonable to prepare a study that would cover its scope the issue of sustainability in consumption seen through the lens of our life quality perspectives. The publication will therefore be a review of the current state of knowledge in this area, it will include variety of theoretical and practical aspects (e.g. best practices). The interdisciplinary and international group of authors can guarantee that it will contain an solid overview of achievements, problems and challenges occurring in this area.
The Handbook «Sustainable consumption and quality of life: towards integrating consumer policy strategies for improved life quality» will be published as a further volume of the «World sustainability Series» (https://www.springer.com/series/13384), and is the leading and most successful peer-reviewed book of Springer as one of the top publishing houses for scientific releases. Accepted submissions have witnessed a high-level publication output in the frame of scientific references.
Scope:
Contributions are being sought in all areas related to various dimensions of sustainable consumption and quality of life as well as consumer policy strategies. That includes, but is not limited, to the following subjects:
I. Consumer policy strategies and empowering consumer rights in the sustainability aspect
II. Sustainable patterns of consumption and production as a drivers of life quality.
III. Consumption and wellbeing. Different lifestyles and sustainability.
IV. Sustainable communities - equitable, diverse, connected, democratic and providing a good quality of life.
V. Economic aspects of life quality. Fair trade. Corporate social responsibility.
VI. The sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources.
VII. Sustainable city, green and blue infrastructure as a value for local communities.
VIII. Sustainable agriculture and food quality.
IX. Nature protected areas as cofactors of life quality.
X. Sustainable tourism and ecotourism – sustainability and responsibility during holiday.
XI. Education for sustainability and quality of life
XII. Sustainable consumption and quality of life – best practices.
Other topics may also be considered and interested authors should contact the Editorial team to discuss them.
Deadlines:
Submission of abstracts: April 19th 2020
Submission of full paper: July 31th, 2020
Submission of revised papers: September 30th, 2020
Expected publication: March 2021
Expressions of interest, consisting of 200 words abstract which must contain the full names, institutional and contact details of the authors (no abstracts will otherwise be considered) should be sent to Dr Aleksandra Machnik at the following e-mail address: [log in to unmask]
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