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Basic Income and Sustainable Consumption Strategies
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Paul-Marie Boulanger
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September 7, 2010
Probably the most demanding challenge for securing sustainable development consists of changing the unsustainable consumption patterns in rich Western societies, which are the main cause of the ongoing environmental crisis. Would a basic income help achieve this objective? I argue that a transition to sustainable consumption requires three different but complementary strategies: eco-efficiency, sufficiency and decommodification. While the impact of basic income on eco-efficiency is uncertain, it could and should play a central role in a framework of sustainability in which the latter two strategies are emphasised.
Published Online: 2010-9-7
©2011 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston
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Keywords for this article
Keywords – decommodification;
eco-efficiency;
sufficiency;
sustainable consumption
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- Front Matter
- Content
- List of Contributors
- Research Note
- Introduction: Basic Income, Sustainability and Post-Productivism
- Basic Income From an Ecological Perspective
- Basic Income and Sustainable Consumption Strategies
- Political Ecology: From Autonomous Sphere to Basic Income
- Basic Income, Post-Productivism and Liberalism
- Mobility, Inclusion and the Green Case for Basic Income
