Maurie Cohen

1. Knowledge-Action Network on Systems of
Sustainable Consumption and Production
Maurie J. Cohen
New Jersey Institute of Technology

4. Ecological
Economics
Environmental
Sociology Innovation
Studies
Industrial
Ecology/Life
Cycle
Analysis
Knowledge
Brokerage
Marketing
Ethics
New
Business Models
Standards/
Accreditation
Business Cluster
Sustainable
System
Innovation
Social
Practices
Consumer/
Environmental
Psychology
Behavioral
Economics
Degrowth/
Secular Stagnation
Sustainable
Lifestyles/Social
Innovation
Decoupling/
Dematerial-ization
Material
Flows/Circular
Economy
Socio-technical Innovations
Sustainable
Consumption
Sufficiency
Consumption-
based GHG
Accounts
Agro-food
Systems
Transport & Mobility
Built Environment
Energy
Domains/Provisioning
Systems
Finance
The Field of Sustainable Consumption (and Production) Research

5. Hosted by the Research Institute for Humanity and
Nature (Kyoto)

6. Timeline of Major Milestones for KAN on Systems
of Sustainable Consumption & Production (SSCP)
March 2016: Initial
workshop in Kyoto
and coordination
group formed
May 2016: Hosted
webinar to announce
initiative to SCP
community (founding
members group
established)
June 2016: Prepared
and submitted to FE
an Expression of
Interest
October 2016: Held
first monthly meeting
of Development Team
April 2017: Submitted
two proposals to
Belmont Forum T2S
call
December 2016:
Established three
Working Groups
May 2017: Hosted
workshop for 30
participants at
SESYNC in USA (event
also designated as SDG
Lab)
September 2017:
Completion of
Research and
Engagement Plan
2016 2017 2018

7. Coordinating
Committee (5
members)
KAN Advisory
Board (in
formation)
FE Global Hubs
FE Asia Hub
Development
Team (20
members)
SSCP KAN Organizational Structure
Working
Groups
KAN
Affiliates
(Google
Group)
WorkingPaper
Committee
Fundraising
Committee
JournalCommittee
Activities Committees
(in formation)
Conferences
Committee
Other FE KANs
Other SCP
Networks/
Organizations

8. WG on Ecological
Macroeconomics and
Political Economy of
Sustainable Lifestyles
WG on Urban Provisioning,
Inequality, and Well-being
WG on Social Change
Beyond Consumerism
WG on Communications
and Outreach
Working Groups

9. Some scholars have characterized a shift toward a post-consumerist system of
social organization. If this is the case, what kinds of alternative provisioning
practices might we envision for the future? How might we envisage more
satisfactory and sustainable livelihoods that are cognizant of both biophysical
limits and the need to reduce both international and intranational social
inequalities?
Working Group 1: Ecological Macroeconomics and Political
Economy of a Transition to Sustainable Lifestyles (12
members)

10. Given that it is at the city-scale that the enabling frameworks of daily living are
produced, how can municipal governments (along with civil society organizations
and social entrepreneurs) more effectively exercise their unique leverage to shape
local production and consumption processes?
Working Group 2: Urban Provisioning, Inequality, and Well-
being (19 members)

11. This focal theme brings together theoretical studies and real-life experiments, and
based on social learning and visioning among stakeholders, to develop an
understanding of viable future pathways for social change beyond consumerism.
This theme is undergirded by notions of interstitial change, “strategic action
fields,” theories of socio-technical transition, and the concept of “embeddedness.”
Working Group 3: Social Change Beyond Consumerism (27
members)

12. The Working Group seeks to forge a more integrated understanding of sustainable
consumption and production (SCP) and to develop strategies for increasing the
societal/policy relevance of a “strong view” of SCP, enabling engagement in
actions towards more sustainable living. Efforts will focus on the nexuses between
knowledge-empowerment–action-impact from a communication perspective and
will develop the frames, topics, narratives, modes, formats, and instruments of
communication. The Working Group will also explore impacts of communications
strategies on engagement, empowerment, and action for more sustainable
systems of consumption and production.
Working Group 4: Communications and Outreach (9
members)

13. Other Ongoing and Future Activities
Formulation of Research and Engagement Plan

14. http://www.futureearth.org/future-earth-sscp
Other Ongoing and Future Activities

15. Other Ongoing and Future Activities

16. Other Ongoing and Future Activities

17. Other Ongoing and Future Activities

18. For more information:
Knowledge-Action Network on Systems of Sustainable
Consumption and Production
Regional Centre for Future Earth in Asia
Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
Kyoto, Japan
Website: http://www.futureearth.org/future-earth-sscp
E-mail: sscp_kan@futureearth.org