Handbook of Research on Sustainable Lifestyles

This insightful Handbook explores how sustainable lifestyles can serve as a catalyst for social change to overcome the current polycrisis. Leading scholars draw on social innovations, agrarian experiments, and countercultural studies to evaluate these lifestyle concepts as the basis for sustainability transitions.Challenging the pursuit of sustainable lifestyles as a matter of technical inventiveness or individual action, this Handbook proposes that sustainability is instead a systemic process that reorients prevailing ambitions and creates conditions for societal flourishing. Expert contributing authors countermand the widespread assumption that achieving a more environmentally sustainable and socially equitable future relies mostly on developing more efficient technologies. They offer alternatives to the relentless focus on achieving these objectives by governments and businesses over the past several decades, which has often been driven by an unyielding commitment to economic growth rather than socioenvironmental concern.The Handbook of Research on Sustainable Lifestyles is an authoritative resource for scholars and students of environmental studies, politics and public policy, sustainable development, human geography, and sociology. Policymakers in innovation and technology and business leaders will also benefit from its practical approach to effectively incorporating sustainability strategies into everyday life.