Citizen-Consumers as Agents of Change in Globalizing Modernity: The Case of Sustainable Consumption

The roles that individuals can adopt, or get assigned, in processes of global environmental change, can be analyzed with the help of three ideal-type forms of commitment: as environmental citizens, as political consumers, and as individual moral agents. We offer a discussion of the three roles in th...

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Main Authors: Gert Spaargaren, Peter Oosterveer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2010-06-01
Series:Sustainability
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/2/7/1887/