Resumen de �Weak� or �strong� sustainable consumption? Efficiency, degrowth, and the 10 Year Framework of Programmes
Although reducing levels and impacts of contemporary consumption and production has been a pivotal socioenvironmental goal for decades, global resource use continues to grow rapidly, particularly across the Asia-Pacific region. Responses such as the �10 Year Framework of Programmes on Consumption and Production Patterns� (10YFP)�an outcome of the 2012 Rio+20 Summit�suggest that nothing short of highly coordinated and multilevel concerted efforts are required to begin to address such trends. However, some commentators fear that the 10YFP will default to �weak� forms of sustainable consumption intervention, focusing on efficiency and technological innovation. By contrast, many are calling for �strong� interventions such as those expounded by the degrowth movement. With this paper I examine both these weak and strong approaches to sustainable consumption, and argue that�although this dichotomy describes two divergent streams of thought and practice�there are conceptual and practice-based spaces where they intersect. Along with a much-needed expansion of the geographical scope of current research and practice, I thus argue that these spaces present one way forward for work in this field.
