Title:	Enabling Responsible Living
Authors:	Ulf Schrader Vera Fricke Declan Doyle Victoria W. Thoresen
Keywords:	Enabling Responsible Living
Issue Date:	2013
Publisher:	Springer
Description:	This book is a compilation of the best papers presented at the 1st International Conference of The Partnership for Education and Research about Responsible Living (PERL). The Conference, held in March 2011 in Istanbul, Turkey, had the same title as the present book: ‘‘Enabling Responsible Living’’. Thus, this book— like the related conference—claims to be programmatic for the newly established network PERL. PERL brings together educators, researchers and practitioners from government, NGOs and business who are all interested in innovative ways to foster responsible—and that means for us above all: sustainable—living (see www.perlprojects.org). The network members come from more than 130 institutions in more than 50 countries all over the world. PERL has been established as an Erasmus Academic Network and gets additional support by UNEP and different national ministries. The network continues the work of its predecessor, the Consumer Citizenship Network (CCN), which was funded as an EU Thematic Network from 2003 to 2009. Hence, consumer issues and the question how to achieve sustainable consumption remain to be of high importance for PERL. The new name highlights that sustainable consumption needs to be embedded in a broader concept of responsible living. Chances and obstacles to consume sustainably are not to be determined by the individual but are related to conditions shaped by government, companies and other societal actors. However, the way how these institutions shape the conditions is influenced by decisions and behaviour of individuals within them. Therefore, with responsible living we take into account that the roles of the individual in the modern world are not restricted to the consumer and the citizen, but could also include roles like employee, parent, association member and many more.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/51356
ISBN:	978-3-642-22048-7
Appears in Collections:	Population Studies

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