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<div><font face="Arial"><i>Annual Review of Environment and
Resources</i></font> <font face="Arial"> DOI:
10.1146/annurev-environ-102014-021224</font></div>
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the<i> Annual Review of Environment and Resources</i> Volume 40 is
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<div><font face="Arial">Transforming Consumption: From Decoupling, to
Behavior Change, to System Changes for Sustainable
Consumption</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">Dara O'Rourke, Niklas Lollo</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">Abstract</font></div>
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>http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-environ-102014-<span
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<div><font face="Arial">Consumption, although often considered an
individual choice, is deeply ingrained in behaviors, cultures, and
institutions, and is driven and supported by corporate and government
practices. Consumption is also at the heart of many of our most
critical ecological, health, and social problems. What is referred to
broadly as sustainable consumption has primarily focused on making
consumption more efficient and gradually decoupling it from energy and
resource use. We argue for the need to focus sustainable consumption
initiatives on the<b> key impact areas of consumption-transport,
housing, energy use, and food</b>-and at deeper levels of system
change. To meet the scale of the sustainability challenges we face,
interventions and policies must move from relative decoupling via
technological improvements, to strategies to change the behavior of
individual consumers, to broader initiatives to change systems of
production and consumption. We seek to connect these emerging
literatures on behavior change, structural interventions, and
sustainability transitions to arrive at integrated<b> frameworks</b>
for learning, iteration, and scaling of sustainability innovations. We
sketch the<b> outlines</b> of research and practice that offer<b>
potentials</b> for system changes<b> for truly sustainable
consumption.</b></font></div>
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