Needs, Desires and Sustainable Consumption

By Antonietta Di Giulio, University of Basel Questions to guide discussions How can we identify needs? How to distinguish needs, desires, satisfiers and resources? What happens when this distinction is not made? Can needs claim a universal validity? And to what extent does it make sense to talk about needs of future generations? How does … Read more

Sustainable Consumption Corridors

By Doris Fuchs, University of Muenster (WWU) Questions to guide discussions Which concept of justice is informing the corridor notion and do you agree with it? Can you think of existing examples of some kind of minimum and maximum consumption standards, e.g. areas where we have already societally agreed upon and politically enforced limits? How … Read more