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01 October 2004 - 03 October 2004
Chiang Mai, Thailand
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Organized by the Unit for Social and Environmental Research (USER), Chiang Mai University
Event URL: http://www.sea-user.org/news-detail.php?news_id=1189
The purpose of this workshop was to arrive at an improved framework and agenda for research on the sustainability of production-consumption systems. There are two key reasons for framing the challenge as one of sustainability of "production-consumption" systems rather than the more conventional focus on production technologies and regulation. The first is the need to bring attention to the processes closer to the decisions and actions of final consumers when undertaking analyses of the underlying reasons for environmental impacts at remote, more primary, "production" parts of commodity chains. The second is that a commodity chain itself can be thought of a series or network of many production-consumption relationships. For each linkage we can ask questions from both a production perspective (how could this industrial process be made more resource efficient?), and, in addition, a consumption perspective (what are the underlying drivers of downstream demands in the network or value chain?). Consumption and production perspectives are complimentary but not alternatives. Ultimately, questions about sustainability of production-consumption systems under the transformations wrought by globalization lead to questions about justice, rights and responsibilities. These and other questions were addressed by a small group of researchers from around the world, from both developing and developed countries, brought together to debate and discuss priorities for research in the next decade, building on the results of an earlier web-based conference.
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