?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Greening+the+Danes%3F+Experience+with+consumption+and+environment+policies.&rft.creator=Christensen%2C+T.H.&rft.creator=Godskesen%2C+M.&rft.creator=R%C3%83%C2%B8pke%2C+I.&rft.creator=Gram-Hansen%2C+K.&rft.creator=Quitzau%2C+M.-B.&rft.subject=Consumer+issues&rft.description=Consumer-oriented+environmental+policies+came+high+on+the+political+agenda+during+the+1990s.+Internationally%2C+consumers+were+assigned+a+key+role+in+environmental+policies%3B+also+in+Denmark%2C+political+initiatives+were+taken+to+promote+sustainable+consumer+behaviour.+In+this+article%2C+the+results+of+Danish+policies+related+to+consumption+and+environment+are+assessed+by+considering+first%2C+the+environmental+impacts+of+the+political+measures%2C+and+second%2C+whether+the+policies+have+succeeded+in+addressing+the+dynamics+behind+increasing+consumption.+The+study+combines+a+theoretical+understanding+of+consumption+as+an+inseparable+part+of+daily+practices+with+empirical+analyses+of+three+fiels+of+consumption%3A+housing%2C+transportation+and+information+and+communication+technologies.+It+is+pointed+out+that+policies+to+promote+sustainable+consumption+are+succesful+only+when+technological+development%2C+economic+structures%2C+and+information+are+all+in+accordance+with+each+other%2C+and+this+is+the+case+only+when+sustainable+consumption+does+not+conflict+with+economic+growth.+A+more+fundamental+critique+thus+concerns+the+failure+of+Danish+consumer-oriented+policies+to+address+consumption+growth+and+the+rising+standards+for+'normal+consumption'.+&rft.publisher=Springer&rft.date=2007&rft.type=Journal+paper&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Forgprints.org%2F11295%2F1%2FGreening_the_Danes.pdf&rft.identifier=Christensen%2C+T.H.%3B+Godskesen%2C+M.%3B+R%C3%83%C2%B8pke%2C+I.%3B+Gram-Hansen%2C+K.+and+Quitzau%2C+M.-B.+(2007)+Greening+the+Danes%3F+Experience+with+consumption+and+environment+policies.+Journal+of+Consumer+Policy%2C+30%2C+pp.+91-116.&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Forgprints.org%2F11295%2F