Sustainable consumption and the good life [electronic resource] : interdisciplinary perspectives / edited by Karen Lykke Syse and Martin Lee Mueller.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Enough is enough? Re-imagining an ethics and aesthetics of sustainability for the twenty-first century / Lawrence Buell -- 2. The essayistic spirit of utopia / Thorunn Gullaksen Endreson -- 3. Towards a sustainable flourishing : democracy, hedonism and the politics of prosperity / Kate Soper -- 4. Is the good life Sustainable? A three-decade study of values, happiness and sustainability in Norway / Ottar Hellevik -- 5. Well-being and environmental responsibility / Bengt Brulde -- 6. The problem of habits for a sustainable transformation / Harold Wilhite -- 7. Well-being in sustainability transitions : making use of needs / Felix Rauschmayer and Ines Omann -- 8. Human needs and the environment reconciled : participatory action-research for sustainable development in Peru / Monica Guillen-Royo -- 9. On the good life and rising electricity consumption in rural Zanzibar / Tanja Winther -- 10. Celebrity chefs, ethical food consumption and the good life / Karen Lykke Syse -- 11. Follow the food : how eating and drinking shape our cities / Jesper Pagh -- 12. Caged welfare : evading the good life for egg-laying hens / Kristian Bjrkdahl -- 13. Being salmon, being human : notes on an ecological turn in the modern narrative tradition / Martin Lee Mueller -- 14. Afterword : beyond the paradox of the big, bad wolf / Thomas Hylland Eriksen.