This list focuses specifically on university-level (both undergraduate and post-graduate) courses/modules devoted in whole or in part to the field of sustainable consumption. The attempt is to identify relevant courses/modules with explicit consideration of sustainable consumption as well as those that engage with sustainability, the environment, economics and social change, from a consumption, consumer, household or citizen perspective. We are also happy to update a list of courses presented in the appendix to the Journal of Cleaner Production paper (2018, A sustainable consumption teaching review: From building competencies to transformative learning, M. Sahakian and G. Seyfang).

If you would like to add your course to this list, please contact Marlyne Sahakian.

North America

• Consumption and Sustainability, Juliet Schor, Boston College, USA
• Environmental Justice, Manisha, Ananharaman, Saint Mary’s College of California, USA
• Environmental Politics and Policy, Donna Lybecker, Idaho State University, USA
• Fostering Sustainable Behaviors, Alice Reznickova, Emory University, USA
• Global Consumer Culture, Richard Wilk, Indiana University, USA
• Introduction to Sustainability Studies, Maurie Cohen, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), USA
• Mining Practices and the Environment, Robert Rattle, Sault College, USA
• Sociology of Consumption,  Nicki Lisa Cole, Ponoma College, USA
• Society and Environment, Emily Huddart Kennedy, Washington State University, USA
• Sustainable Living: Politics and Policy, Erika Allen Wolters, Oregon State University, USA
• Sustainability Inspired Product and Service Design, Michael Luchs, College of William and Mary, USA
• Sustainability Policy and Practice, Maurie Cohen, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), USA
• Sustainable Consumption and Production, Halina Brown, Clark University, USA
• Sustainable Consumption, Alice Reznickova, Emory University, USA

South America

• Sustainable Consumption and Production in Latin America and the Caribbean Region: Approaches & Practical Tools, United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment)

Europe

• Behavioural Economics in Sustainable Policy, Lucia Reisch, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
• Business, Sustainability, and Innovation, Rodrigo Lozano, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
• Challenges to Sustainable Development, Doris Fuchs, University of Muenster, Germany
• Consumption, households and the environment, Tom Bauler, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
• Consumption, Sustainability and Social Change, Harold Wilhite and Arve Hansen, University of Oslo, Norway
• Culture and lifestyles, Francesca Forno, University of Trento, Italy
• Current issues in nutrition and hospitality sciences, Sylvia Lorek, Munster University of Applied Sciences, Germany
• Energy and People, Tom Hargreave, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
• Ethical and local economies, Eva Fraňková and Nadia Johanisova, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
• European consumer policy, Lucia Reisch and John Thøgersen, Aarhus School of Business / Aarhus University, Denmark
• Everyday Consumption, Kate Burningham, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
• Foundations of Sustainable Development, , University of Surrey, United Kingdom
• Geographies of Sustainable Consumption, Frances Fahy, National University of Ireland, Ireland
• How much consumption can mankind bear? (German: Wieviel Konsum verträgt der Mensch?), Antonietta Di Giulio, FHNW School of Education, Switzerland
• Marketing Ethics and Sustainability, Johan Jansson, Umeå University, Sweden
• Nature, Society and Environmental Policy, Kersty Hobson, Oxford University, United Kingdom
• Perspectives on Sustainable Consumption, Eva Heiskanen, University of Helsinki, Finland
• Psychology of Sustainable Development, , University of Surrey, United Kingdom
• Research on consumption: Ethical and Societal Responsibility Perspective, Francisco Javier Montoro Rios, Juan Miguel Rey Pino, University of Granada, Spain
• Sustainability concepts in science and practice, Sylvia Lorek, Munster University of Applied Sciences, Germany
• Study Programme Sustainability Science, special focus: Sustainable Consumption, Daniel Fischer, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany
• Sustainability in Everyday Life, Eva Heiskanen and Minna Autio, University of Helsinki, Finland
• Sociotechnical (re) construction of consumer society, Eva Heiskanen, University of Helsinki, Finland
• Sociology of markets: Markets, morals and social movements (French: Sociologie des marchés: Marchés, Morale, Mouvements sociaux), Philip Balsiger, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
• Sustainable Development: an introduction, Maud Huynen, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
• Sustainable Consumption, Marlyne Sahakian, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
• Sustainable Consumption, Lucie Middlemiss, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
• Sustainable Consumption, Gill Seyfang, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
• Sustainable Consumption, Sylvia Lorek, Munster University of Applied Sciences, Germany
• Sustainable Consumption, Armand Faganel, University of Primorska, Slovenia
• Sustainable Consumption (German: Nachhaltiger Konsum), Ulf Schrader, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
• Sustainable consumption and behaviour change, Stefanie Lena Hille, University of St Gallen, Switzerland
• Sustainable Consumption and Production in the Global South, Alison Browne, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
• Sustainability, consumption and global responsibilities, Dan Welch, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
• Supporting sustainable consumption – the role of companies, Agnes Zsoka, Corvinus University, Hungary

Asia & Oceania

• Consumption and society, Dunfu Zhang, University of Shanghai, China
• Energy, Environment, and the Future: Crisis and Opportunity, Graeme Lang, City University of Hong Kong, China
• Environment Politics and Policy, Sunayana Ganguly, Azim Premji University, India
• Environmental Sociology, Manuel Vallee, University of Auckland, New Zealand
• Introduction to SCP in Asia, UNITAR, UNEP, EU SWITCH-Asia, Asia
• Sustainable futures, Martin Mulligan, RMIT University, Australia
• Sustainable Consumption and Production in Latin America and the Caribbean Region: Approaches & Practical Tool, UN Environment
• The Politics of Sustainable Consumption, Michael Maniates, Yale-NUS College, Singapore
• UN Winter School on SCP in Asia and the Pacific, IGES/UNEP/UNITAR, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand

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