This session will present consumption as a unique field of inquiry for researchers and practitioners, providing an overview of current advances and future directions. First, the session will incorporate a state of the art report from the SCORAI Europe network, including actual questions and emerging answers developed in workshops, related projects, publications and other events of interest over the past year, as well as their implications for sustainable transformations. Next, the session will incorporate an interactive discussion on future priorities and activities for the sustainable consumption research and action community, and elicit debate on what are the most pressing issues and ways to addresses them. Key topics might include boundaries of consumption, socio-material dynamics of consumption, collective action and citizen engagement, and systems of provision related to consumption. The session is open to the public and we would welcome participants from a range of backgrounds including academics, practitioners, policy-makers and businesses.
SCORAI Europe aims to support a community that contributes forward-thinking, innovative research in the area of sustainable consumption, while also bridging academic research with mainstream thinking and policy making. SCORAI Europe cooperates closely with the European Roundtable for Sustainable Consumption and Production (ERSCP), our sister SCORAI organisation in North America, the Future Earth Knowledge-Action Network on Systems for Sustainable Consumption and Production as well as other research networks that are focused on the challenges of addressing the society-environment nexus from a consumption perspective. SCORAI Europe welcomes new members to join this exciting and dynamic research group.