Advancing sustainable consumption and production in cities - A transdisciplinary research and stakeholder engagement framework to address consumption-based emissions and impacts

Urban consumption patterns and lifestyles are increasingly important for the sustainability of cities today and in the future. However, considerations of consumption issues, social norms, behaviour and lifestyles within current urban sustainability research and practices are limited. Much untapped potential for the reduction of the...

Sustainability meta-labeling: Key Actors and Factors for a potential Institutionalisation

To facilitate more sustainable consumption different actors have introduced various labeling schemes providing information about a products environmental, social or other attributes. Many argue however that the multiplicity of existing schemes has caused confusion for both producers and consumers. To reduce this confusion there have been calls...