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Contents

Acknowledgement

List of contributors

1 Consumption and environmental sustainability

Consumption in context

2 Inside looking out: the global politics of Australia’s population debates

3 The Ecological Footprint of consumption: spatial and sectoral context

4 Consumption and the environment: impacts from a system perspective

5 The elementary forms of the consumerist life: a sociological perspective

6 Consumer sentiment and consumption

7 The psychology of consumption

8 Consuming online in Australia

Household consumption in an urban context

9 Australian household consumption and the slow burn of the environment

10 Food consumption in Australia

11 Wasteful consumption

12 Sustainable travel: mobility, lifestyle and practice

13 Consuming the urban environment: a study of the factors that influence resource use in an Australian city

14 Understanding household attitudes and behaviours towards waste, water and energy conservation

15 Factors in energy and water consumption

16 Practices involving energy and water consumption in migrant households

17 Spatial and socioeconomic drivers of direct and indirect household energy consumption in Australia

18 Who cares? An exploration of attitudes and behaviour towards the conservation of resources

Index