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Sustainability: From Excess to Aesthetics

Behavior and Social Issues

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Field Value
 
Title Sustainability: From Excess to Aesthetics
 
Creator Grant, Lyle K.
 
Subject Behavior Analysis, enviornmental psychology, behavioral economics
sustainability, overconsumption, steady-state economy, positional economy, advertising
 
Description Sustainability is defined as the operation of a steady-state economy in which natural resource inputs and waste-product outputs are held constant. Key issues in attaining a sustainability are addressing the problems of overconsumption of resource-intensive reinforcers, underconsumption of resource-light reinforcers, and lack of consumption skills that yield an enduring source of intrinsically reinforcing challenges and pleasures. Behavioral impediments to a sustainable society are described together with opportunities to achieve it. Opportunities emphasize sustainable futures people will find appealing rather than austere. These opportunities include a replacement of consumer culture with alternative value systems, embodied in John Stuart Mill's art of living, Tibor Scitovsky's cultural reawakening, B. F. Skinner's arts-based utopia, voluntary simplifiers, and the aesthetically-based values of Bohemian communities.
 
Publisher University of Illinois at Chicago Library
 
Date 2010-07-07
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/bsi/article/view/2789
10.5210/bsi.v19i0.2789
 
Source Behavior and Social Issues; Volume 19 (2010); 7-47
1064-9506
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/bsi/article/view/2789/2576