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The problem of the consumer may be the solution. Sustainable production from the consumers perspective: the emergence of the "Gaume grassland steer" in Belgium
Stassart, Pierre M
2008In Stassart, Pierre M (Ed.) Proceedings of the "Sustainable Consumption Alternative Agrifood Systems
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Keywords :
Sustainable consumption; Biodiversity Managment; Stock farming; Justification; Convention theory; Capacity; territory; Consommation durable; Gestion de la Biodiversité; élevage; Théorie des conventions; Capacité; territoire
Abstract :
[en] This paper examines the question of sustainable consumption through the consumer’s contribution to the various dimensions of sustainability. The consumer’s participation reveals legitimacy conflicts in the process of designing new production systems. The different dimensions of sustainability can be linked to different legitimacy models. When the building of new systems entails a concerted process involving dialogue and deliberation among stakeholders from the agricultural and environmental sectors, various legitimacy principles are mobilized and confront each other through the spokespeople who represent the interests involved. This specific case concerns beef produced from the ”Gaume grassland steer,” a system that can be characterized as agroecological and territorial. The consumers who were involved contributed, through deliberative processes, to the coexistence of various legitimacy principles and stakeholder cooperation. This capacity could be linked to their multiple and fuzzy identities because their identities were shown to be flexible, changing with the institutional setting, which was sometimes consumer-oriented and sometimes territory-driven. This allowed them to act as mediators between environmentalists and farmers. To do this they had to be able to accept the limits of each legitimacy principle and contest the possibility of imposing only one principle on all the others. In so doing they helped the heterogeneous actors to reach compromises by referring to a kind of patrimonial common good.
Disciplines :
Sociology & social sciences
Author, co-author :
Stassart, Pierre M ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > DER Sc. et gest. de l'environnement (Arlon Campus Environ.) > DER Sc. et gest. de l'environnement (Arlon Campus Environ.)
Language :
English
Title :
The problem of the consumer may be the solution. Sustainable production from the consumers perspective: the emergence of the "Gaume grassland steer" in Belgium
Alternative titles :
[fr] Le problème du consommateur peut être la solution
Publication date :
2008
Event name :
Sustainable Consumption and Alternative Agrifood Systems, Second Conference on Sustainable Consumption for Social Scientists
Event organizer :
Liège University Campus Arlon
Event place :
Arlon, Belgium
Event date :
27-30 may
Audience :
International
Main work title :
Proceedings of the "Sustainable Consumption Alternative Agrifood Systems
Main work alternative title :
[en] Actes de la seconde conférence sur consommation durable et systèmes agroalimentaires alternatif
Editor :
Stassart, Pierre M ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences et gestion de l'environnement (Arlon Campus Environnement) > Site d'Arlon : Accueil
Publisher :
ULg, Arlon, Belgium
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
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