Publications and papers

Getting the Goods: April 2004

Published April 2004 by Integrative Strategies Forum

Getting the Goods (formerly SPAC Update) serves as a vehicle for sharing civil society views on sustainable production and consumption (SPAC). The April 2004 edition highlights some of the key recent events regarding SPAC policy, provides policy perspectives from around the globe, and looks at how civil society can best affect change within the WSSD and CSD processes and beyond.

Production, consumption, and the World Summit on Sustainable Development  (PDF)

Published 2003 by Kluwer Academic Publishers
Reprinted April 2003 by Integrative Strategies Forum

Originally published as an article in a special edition of a Dutch academic journal on the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), this article takes a critical look at the efforts of governments to address unsustainable production and consumption patterns in the decade since the Earth Summit in Rio de Jaineiro, Brazil. Set in the context of the WSSD, author Jeffrey Barber concludes with an assessment of the WSSD Plan of Implementation and whether it will be adequate to reverse the worsening trends.

Waiting for Delivery:
A civil society assessment on progress toward sustainable production and consumption (PDF)

Published August 2002 by ICSPAC

With a global perspective of 17 authors from around the globe, Waiting for Delivery surveys several of the tools and policies used for implementing sustainable production and consumption, and examines specific sectors and issues. The report, published for the World Summit on Sustainable Development, closes with a proposal for a new civil society initiative to monitor and assess progress towards sustainable production and consumption.

The sustainable production and consumption of food (PDF)

Published April 2000 by ISF for SPAC Watch

This working paper examines some of the crucial obstacles and opportunities requiring attention and action in the transition to a sustainable food system. Analysis is broken down by the SPAC cycles of consumption, investment, production, and distribution.

Moving forward or in circles? (PDF)

Published September 2003 by Stakeholder Forum for our Common Future

This short article on the First International Expert Programme on Sustainable Consumption and Production was published in the newsletter Networks 2015

Keep it coherent: Don't undermine the overarching objectives (PDF)

Published May 2003 by SDIN

Written for the newsletter Taking Issue during the 11th Session of the CSD, the article contains a plea to clarify the inter-relationships between the three overarching objectives of sustainable development.

SPAC Update: May 2003 (PDF)

Published May 2003 by Integrative Strategies Forum

The May 2003 edition of SPAC Update was published for the Environment for Europe meeting in Kyiv. This edition analyzes the progress (or relative lack thereof) that developed countries are making in developing policy on sustainable production and consumption(SPAC), summarizes outcomes of the UN's CSD session in April, and provides several excerpts from the Bratislava Declaration, SDIN's Taking Issue newsletter, and other sources.

SPAC: Not an issue (PDF)

Published April 29 2003 by SDIN

Published in Taking Issue during CSD-11, this article calls for governments to integrate SPAC principles in their national policies and strategies on sustainable development.

 

Changing the system of consumption and production in the United States (PDF)

Written March 1996 for the CAPSCAN workshop