Political Economy of Sustainable Consumption and Production

The Political Economy WG starts from the premise that unsustainable production and consumption levels are fundamentally linked to contemporary macro-economic structures and international political-economic relations. The WG aims to research a wide range of plausible actions including those that work to modify systems from within and those which leverage and exploit the contradictions inherent in current economic systems to influence change.

Co-chairs:
– Cindy Isenhour (University of Maine, USA)
– Manu Mathai (World Resources Institute)