Sustainable Consumption Conference 2011
Keynote Speakers
Erik Assadourian is a senior fellow at the Worldwatch Institute and director of the “State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures: From Consumerism to Sustainability”. “State of the World 2010” investigates the need to transform cultures so that living sustainably feels as natural as living as a consumer feels today. He has explored many aspects of what a sustainable world could look like, including investigating a new economic system built around well-being rather than consumerism, how corporations could drive sustainability rather than hinder it, and how to engage communities to accelerate sustainable development.
Lucia Reisch
, Copenhagen Business School, DK
Lucia Reisch is a full professor at Copenhagen Business School’s Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility and a permanent guest professor for “Consumer Research and Consumer Policy” at Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen (Germany). She is currently involved in several national and EU research projects on sustainable consumption, material and resource efficiency, sustainable energy use and production. She is the editor in chief of the Journal of Consumer Policy and is a member of several scientific boards and policy advice committees related to consumerism.
Inge Røpke
, Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
Inge Røpke is an ecological economist and associate professor at the Technical University of Denmark, Department of Management Engineering, Section for Innovation and Sustainability. She has published widely on technology in everyday life, ecological economics, and the relationship between consumption and the environment. In collaboration with Lucia Reisch, she united a group of distinguished scholars to publish a reader on the latest state of knowledge on sustainable consumption. Her latest research has been focused on consumption from a practice theory perspective, energy use and information technology as well as consumers’ role within the growth engine.
Elisabeth Shove is a professor of Sociology at Lancaster University. Her current research focuses on the relation between consumption, everyday practice and ordinary technology. She holds an Economic and Social Council (ESRC) Climate Change Leadership Fellowship on ”Transitions in practice: Climate change and everyday life“. Her further engagement involves the management team of the Sustainable Practices Research Group (SPRG), where she also acts as a co-investigator of three research projects on the cooling of occupied spaces, theoretical and conceptual integration of sustainable practices, and behavior with regards to sustainable consumption.
Kate Soper
, London Metropolitan University, UK
Kate Soper is emerita professor of Philosophy at London Metropolitan University, and a visiting professor at Brighton University. She has published widely on environmental philosophy and theory of needs and consumption. Her more recent writings include What is Nature? Culture, Politics and the Non-Human (Blackwell, 1995), Citizenship and Consumption (co-editor, Palgrave, 2007) and The Politics and Pleasures of Consuming Differently (co-editor, Palgrave, 2008). Her study on 'Alternative hedonism and the theory and politics of consumption' was funded in the ESRC/AHRC 'Cultures of Consumption' Programme (www.consume.bbk.ac.uk).
Arnold Tukker
, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), NO
Arnold Tucker is a professor of Sustainable Innovation at the University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim. His field of research comprises the combination of sustainable innovation and analysis of environmental impact, sustainable design as well as sustainability at an urban level. Beyond his academic involvement, he is the Manager of the sustainable innovation program at TNO, an independent research organization based in the Netherlands. His experience includes several EU projects such as SCORE! and EXIOPOL.
Alan Warde
, University of Manchester, UK
Alan Warde is a professor of Sociology and a Professorial Research Fellow at the Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI), University of Manchester. His current research includes the sociology of consumption, food, theories of practice, sociology of culture, and the analysis of sustainable consumption. In the year 2010-12 he is the Jane and Aatos Erkko Visiting Professor in Studies on Contemporary Society at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland. His research project for this appointment is called “Consumption and sustainability: towards a social scientific understanding”.
Pre-Conference
Simonetta Carbonaro is professor of Humanistic Marketing and Design Management at the Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås and she is visiting professor at The London College of Fashion. She carries out research in the area of consumer ethos and behavior, forecasting the directions consumer culture is moving in. She is involved with Design of Prosperty, an action oriented transdisciplinary center focusing on design for change. Further engagements include the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute for marketing and social sciences and business consultancy as a senior strategic advisor with retail companies.
Kate Soper
, London Metropolitan University, UK
Kate Soper is emerita professor of Philosophy at London Metropolitan University, and a visiting professor at Brighton University. She has published widely on environmental philosophy and theory of needs and consumption. Her more recent writings include What is Nature? Culture, Politics and the Non-Human (Blackwell, 1995), Citizenship and Consumption (co-editor, Palgrave, 2007) and The Politics and Pleasures of Consuming Differently (co-editor, Palgrave, 2008). Her study on 'Alternative hedonism and the theory and politics of consumption' was funded in the ESRC/AHRC 'Cultures of Consumption' Programme (www.consume.bbk.ac.uk).
Bas van Vliet
, Wageningen University, NL
Bas van Vliet is assistant professor of the Environmental Policy Group at Wageningen University since 2002. His main field of research concerns sustainable consumption and production with a particular specialization in environmental management of urban infrastructures (water & sanitation, waste, energy) as they are linked to social aspects of technological environmental innovations and systems of provision. His academic background combines environmental sciences with environmental sociology, which he has brought into an effective relationship by analyzing water, energy and waste services consumption-production patterns in Europe, East Africa and Vietnam.
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Erik Assadourian
Elizabeth Shove
Simonetta Carbonaro
