Sustainable Consumption and Production Seminar Series
2006-2008

Seminar One: Changing the Way we Think
26th January 2007
Cardiff University

This seminar addressed how we bring societies forward into the future, a future where production and consumption are based on sustainability principles. Few people contest the need to change the way we behave to a more sustainability orientated mode of life, but this is one of the most difficult challenges facing society at the current time. To obtain such change we must consider management, behavioural and cultural factors and the need to engage with individual responsibility to a greater extent. The seminar considered a more sustainability focused society and what steps need to be taken to achieve a different kind of future.

Please click on the highlighted titles to download the presentations from the day

Where are we Going?
Dr Dorothy Maxwell; DEFRA

Managing the Process of Changing Thought?
Professor Ken Peattie; Director, BRASS

Understanding Durable Environmental Behaviour Change: A Case Study of the UK Eco-Team Programme
Dr Mike Nye; Senior Research Associate, Centre for Environmental Risk, University of East Anglia

Changing the Way we Link - Ways of Thinking Rightly about the Global Dimension of Sustainable Consumption and Production?
Burcu Tuncer; UNEP/Wuppertal Institute Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production