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Mainstreaming sustainable consumption: lessons learned from a four-year research program

Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy
This Brief Report describes the research and key lessons learned in the initial four-year phase of the research program Mistra Sustainable Consumption that seeks to stimulate a transition to more sustainable consumption in Sweden.
Åsa Svenfelt, Karin Bradley
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Maximum Entropy and Sufficiency

, 2016
The notion of Bregman divergence and sufficiency will be defined on general convex state spaces. It is demonstrated that only spectral sets can have a Bregman divergence that satisfies a sufficiency condition.
Harremoës, Peter
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Doing laundry in consumption corridors: wellbeing and everyday life

Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy, 2020
In this article, we explore the possibilities for a transformation toward more sustainable energy usage by engaging with mundane activities, such as doing the laundry.
Laurence Godin, Senja Laakso, Marlyne Sahakian   +2 more
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L’innovation à l’épreuve de l’anthropocène. Compte rendu de lecture de L’Innovation, mais pour quoi faire ? de Franck Aggeri

Revue de la Régulation, 2023
In this incisive, interdisciplinary book on innovation, Franck Aggeri gives pride of place to the critical social sciences—critical management studies, institutional economics, sociology of innovation, environmental history etc.—to deconstruct some of ...
Agnès Labrousse
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Causation and the Law: Preemption, Lawful Sufficiency, and Causal Sufficiency [PDF]

, 2001
This article briefly describes the normative/nonnormative distinction, and how one might invoke this distinction to locate a nonnormative dimension of actual causation. After briefly introducing Richard Wright\u27s concept of a necessary element in a set
Fumerton, Richard, Kress, Ken
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Sufficiency in quantum statistical inference

, 2004
This paper attempts to develop a theory of sufficiency in the setting of non-commutative algebras parallel to the ideas in classical mathematical statistics.
Jencova, Anna, Petz, Denes
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Is Harry Frankfurt’s ‘Doctrine of Sufficiency’ Sufficient? [PDF]

, 2016
In his article, “Equality as a Moral Ideal”, Harry Frankfurt argues against economic egalitarianism and presents what he calls the “doctrine of sufficiency.” According to the doctrine of sufficiency, what is morally important is not relative economic ...
Chung, Hun
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Co-Benefits als Katalysatoren für Suffizienzpolitik?: Wie Bürger*innen in Beteiligungsverfahren Suffizienz begründen

TATuP – Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis, 2022
This article examines what sufficiency-oriented measures citizens would like to see in participation processes at the municipal level and how they justify them.
Jonas Lage, Marie Graef
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Aristotle on Self-Sufficiency, External Goods, and Contemplation [PDF]

, 2020
Aristotle tells us that contemplation is the most self-sufficient form of virtuous activity: we can contemplate alone, and with minimal resources, while moral virtues like courage require other individuals to be courageous towards, or courageous with ...
Gasser-Wingate, Marc
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Sufficiency and the state: A prospective project

Frontiers in Sustainability, 2022
Sufficiency as a social organizing principle can be applied to individuals, organizations, and economies. But if the encompassing social structure, namely, the state, is still organized around expansionist principles like efficiency and growth, the ...
Thomas Princen
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