Suggestions on key readings about "corridors"

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Heyman, Josiah M

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Nov 6, 2025, 2:43:03 PMNov 6
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Hello to all,
I’m looking for key readings on the concept of “corridors” in sufficiency thinking, specifically concerning activity by individuals/households (and their aggregates), and not producers (e.g., utilities). The concept is interesting; the term mystifying, if I may be allowed.
Many thanks in advance,
Joe

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Cohen, Maurie

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Nov 6, 2025, 9:02:42 PMNov 6
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A good place to start is the work of Doris Fuchs and Antoinetta Di Giulio. See also the published papers of Marlyne Sahakian and colleagues.

Cheers, 

Maurie



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Hello to all, I’m looking for key readings on the concept of “corridors” in sufficiency thinking, specifically concerning activity by individuals/households (and their aggregates), and not producers (e. g. , utilities). The concept is interesting;
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Nov 7, 2025, 3:49:02 AMNov 7
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Dear Joe,

 

Maurie already pointed you to the main readings. They surely build the foundation.

 

Beyond the conceptualisation there are quite some project which have taken up the concept. I am actually setting up a Zotero library on this and develop a mailing list on Consumption Corridors research. For the time being CC research on the national level e.g. exist in Iceland (search for Jukka Heinonen and his team) or CC in energy (Samuel Betts-Davies in the UK, Millward-Hopkins in Switzerland). Regarding specific consumption areas there a concepts on food (Minna Kanerva), Mobility (Henrike Rau)  and housing (Marlyne Sahakian).

 

You may like to search for/reach out to the authors or you can come back to me directly to get further papers.

 

All the best

 

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Nov 7, 2025, 5:29:28 AMNov 7
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Here a follow up mail from Doris Fuchs who did not seem to be able to send to the list

 

Sylvie

 

Thank you Maurie!

Here are some of the relevant references and links:

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. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367748746.

Sahakian, Marlyne, Doris Fuchs, Antonietta Di Giulio, and Sylvia Lorek. 2021. Advancing the Concept of Consumption Corridors and Exploring Its Implications. Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy 17(1): 305-315, DOI: 10.1080/15487733.2021.1919437.

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, DOI: 10.1080/15487733.2021.1912907.

Di Giulio, Antonietta and Doris Fuchs. 2014. Sustainable Consumption Corridors: Concept, Objections, and Responses. GAIA 23 (1): 184-192, DOI: https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.23.S1.6.

 

Doris

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Heyman, Josiah M

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Nov 7, 2025, 11:26:05 AMNov 7
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Thanks to all.
Joe

Josiah Heyman

Professor of Anthropology

Director, Center for Inter-American and Border Studies

Department of Sociology and Anthropology

University of Texas at El Paso

jmhe...@utep.edu (best contact)

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Nov 7, 2025, 11:30:44 AMNov 7
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You may also be interested in a related concept of “fair consumption space” introduced by Lewis Akenji of HotorCool Institute. They just released a very interesting report entitled “A Climate for Sufficiency”: 1.5-Degree Lifestyles” It is really worth reading. You can easily find it online.

Halina Brown

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