OUTPUTS
We have identified the following publications that build on the Consumption Corridors concept. Please contact us if you wish to share additional publications with us.
BOOKS
Fuchs, Doris, Marlyne Sahakian, Tobias Gumbert, Antonietta Di Giulio, Michael Maniates, Sylvia Lorek and Antonia Graf. 2021. Consumption Corridors: Living Well within Sustainable Limits. London: Routledge.
library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/46919
SPECIAL ISSUES
Sahakian, Marlyne, Doris Fuchs, Antonietta Di Giulio, and Sylvia Lorek. 2021. Consumption corridors: advancing the concept and exploring its implications. Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy 17(1): 305-315
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2021.1919437
SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES
Cué Rio, M., Bovenkerk, B., Castella, JC. et al. 2022. The elephant in the room is really a cow: using consumption corridors to define sustainable meat consumption in the European Union. Sustainability Science.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01235-7
Kanerva, Minna. 2022. Consumption Corridors and the Case of Meat.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10603-022-09524-5
Coote, Anna. 2021. Universal basic services and sustainable consumption, Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 17:1, 32-46
https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2020.1843854
Di Giulio, Antonietta & Rico Defila. 2021. Building the Bridge between Protected Needs and Consumption Corridors. Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy
https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2021.1907056
Dillman, Kevin Joseph, Michał Czepkiewicz, Jukka Heinonen & Brynhildur Davíðsdóttir. 2021. A safe and just space for urban mobility: a framework for sector-based sustainable consumption corridor development, Global Sustainability, 4:28, 1-17
https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2021.28
Fuchs, Doris, Julia Steinberger, Elke Pirgmaier, William Lamb, Lina Brand-Correa, and Jonathan Cullen. 2021. A corridors and power-oriented perspective on energy service demand and needs satisfaction. Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy 17(1): 163-173
https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2021.1912907
Gumbert, Tobias, and Carolin Bohn. 2021. Are liberal objections to consumption corridors justified? On the relation of freedom and limits in green liberal thought, Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 17:1, 91-102
https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2021.1878733
Vladimirova, Katia. 2021. Consumption corridors in fashion: deliberations on upper consumption limits in minimalist fashion challenges, Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 17:1, 103-117
https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2021.1891673
Brand-Correa, Lina, Giulio Mattioli, William Lamb & Julia Steinberger. 2020. Understanding (and tackling) need satisfier escalation, Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 16:1, 309-325
https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2020.1816026
Defila, Rico & Antonietta Di Giulio. 2020. The concept of "consumption corridors" meets society – how an idea for fundamental changes in consumption is received. Journal of Consumer Policy, 43: 315-344
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10603-019-09437-w
Godin, Laurence, Senja Laakso & Marlyne Sahakian. 2020. Doing laundry in consumption corridors: wellbeing and everyday life, Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 16:1, 99-113
https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2020.1785095
Gough, Ian. 2020. Defining floors and ceilings: the contribution of human needs theory, Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 16:1, 208-219
https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2020.1814033
Guillen-Royo, Mònica. 2020. Applying the fundamental human needs approach to sustainable consumption corridors: participatory workshops involving information and communication technologies, Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 16:1, 114-127
https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2020.1787311
Jaeger-Erben, Melanie, Birgit Blättel-Mink, Doris Fuchs, Konrad Götz, Nina Langen, Henrike Rau. 2020. Grenzen des Konsums im Lebensverlauf: Gelegenheiten, Hürden und Gestaltungsspielräume GAIA 29/4: 218 – 223
https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.29.4.4
Pirgmaier, Elke. 2020. Consumption corridors, capitalism and social change, Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 16:1, 274-285
https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2020.1829846
Sahakian, Marlyne & Manisha Anantharaman. 2020. What space for public parks in sustainable consumption corridors? Conceptual reflections on need satisfaction through social practices, Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 16:1, 128-142
https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2020.1788697
Di Giulio, Antonietta and Doris Fuchs. 2014. “Sustainable Consumption Corridors: Concept, Objections, and Responses". GAIA 23/S1: 184-192.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Di Giulio, Antonietta & Rico Defila. 2021. Sustainable consumption: from environmental concerns to including justice and quality of life. In: Bulletin SAGW 2/21: Konsum | Consommation, SAGW. S. 42-46
http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5013935
Fuchs, Doris. 2020. „Living Well within Limits: the Vision of Consumption Corridors". In Kalfagianni, Agni, Doris Fuchs und Anders Hayden (eds). Routledge Handbook of Global Sustainability Governance. London: Routledge, 296-307
Fuchs, Doris, and Sophie Dolinga. 2019. Das richtige Maß finden. Wege der Transformation zu nachhaltigem Konsum. AMOS International 13(1): 24-32
Fuchs, Doris, Sylvia Lorek, Antonietta Di Giulio and Rico Defila. 2019. „Sources of power for sustainable consumption: Where to look". In Martiskainen, Mari, Lucie Middlemiss and Cindy Isenhour (eds.). Power and Politics in Sustainable Consumption Research and Practice. London: Routledge, 62-83
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Fuchs, Doris. 2017. „Consumption Corridors as a Means for Overcoming Trends in (Un-)Sustainable Consumption". In Bala, Christian and Wolfgang Schuldzinski (eds.). International Conference on Consumer Research 2016: The 21st Century Consumer: Vulnerable, Responsible, Transparent? Düsseldorf: Verbraucherzentrale NRW, 147-159
PERSPECTIVES
Kanerva, Minna. 2022. The relationship between consumption corridors and recent sustainability-focused economic models. Perspectives on Consumption Corridors 1
https://www.uni-muenster.de/imperia/md/content/fuchs/kanerva_2022_the_relationship_between_consumption_corridors_and_recent_sustainability-focused_economic_models_1.pdf
PODCASTS
Bartz, Michael (2023): 'Rethinking Growth Part 6: The Good Life'. In Over My Head [Podcast]. 9 Juin, [online]
https://www.inovermyheadpodcast.com/episodes/rethinking-growth-part-6-the-good-life

“Consumption corridors” is a powerful framework for pursuing wellbeing in a world of ecological and social limits. The definition of a corridor depends on setting upper limits to consumption, above which the consumption of some hinders the ability of all to live a good life, now and in the future; but also lower limits to consumption, below which people are unable to satisfy their needs.