Communityn Essay: Speaking of sustainability: the potential of metaphor
This essay explores how, through metaphor, pro-ponents of sustainable consumption can shift from a worldview that is linear, mechanistic, reductionist, expansionist, and consumerist to one that is cyclic, organic, complex, constrained and, shall we say, productive or self-generating.
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis Group
2010-10-01
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| Series: | Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy |
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| Online Access: | http://sspp.proquest.com/archives/vol6iss2/communityessay.princen.html |
| Summary: | This essay explores how, through metaphor, pro-ponents of sustainable consumption can shift from a worldview that is linear, mechanistic, reductionist, expansionist, and consumerist to one that is cyclic, organic, complex, constrained and, shall we say, productive or self-generating. |
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| ISSN: | 1548-7733 |