The New Middle Classes Globalizing Lifestyles, Consumerism and Environmental Concern /
The new middle classes of developing countries are held responsible for boosting extremely resource-intensive lifestyles beyond the OECD-world thus thwarting ongoing efforts to attain a more sustainable future. But how homogeneous are their consumption patterns and why should not globalization inclu...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2009.
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Edición: | 1st ed. 2009. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Modernities, Globalization and Consumption
- Who are the New Middle Classes and why are they Given so Much Public Attention?
- Convergence and Divergence in Societal Modernization: Global trends, Regional Variations, and Some Implications for Sustainability
- Consumerist Lifestyles in the Context of Globalization: Investigating Scenarios of Homogenization, Diversification and Hybridization
- Who are the Globalizers? The Role of Education and Educational Elites
- Provider Strategies and the Greening of Consumption Practices: Exploring the Role of Companies in Sustainable Consumption
- From Small Objects to Cars: Consumption Expansion in East Asia
- New Middle Classes in China, Brazil, Ecuador and Israel
- Rising Capitalism, Emerging Middle-Classes and Environmental Perspectives in China: A Weberian Approach
- Globalization of Lifestyle: Golfing in China
- Who are the Knowledge Workers of Campinas, SP, Brazil and how do they Live? Local Impacts of Global Trends
- Sustainability of a Life Más Cómodo? Agricultural Change, Remaking Families, and the Emerging Indigenous Middle Class in the Ecuadorian Andes
- New Middle Class and Environmental Lifestyle in Israel
- New Middle Classes in India
- The Political Economy of Lifestyle: Consumption, India's New Middle Class and State-Led Development
- "Environmentality" in the Neoliberal City: Attitudes, Governance and Social Justice
- India's 'New Middle Class' and the Globalising City: Software Professionals in Bangalore, India
- The Changing Food Scenario and the Middle Classes in the Emerging Megacity of Hyderabad, India
- Highly Qualified Employees in Bangalore, India: Consumerist Predators?.