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https://www.pangaea.de/ information publisher tableDigital Supplement to: Apine, Lilija (submitted): Municipalities' role in promoting sustainable consumption, example of Latvia. Environment and Planning C-Government and Policy In a modern society it is generally accepted that the major cause for environmental problems is the current consumption pattern in industrialized countries, thus it is crucial to understand underlying processes and search for solutions in order to consciously progress towards sustainable consumption. In this paper the exclusive role of municipalities in promoting sustainable consumption is recognized. By analyzing the example of the situation of municipalities in Latvia, the reason for focusing on local level when dealing with sustainable consumption issues, as well as main obstacles and possibilities for municipalities' progress towards sustainability are revealed. Promotion of sustainable consumption cannot be based solely on eco-efficiency. Sufficiency strategy plays a crucial role. Since positive social environment for sufficiency dimension is vitally important, local level holds exclusively crucial role for its implementation - the potential of municipalities here is unbounded. Although local authorities already have many tools available, they are insufficiently discovered. Insufficiently exploited tools are property tax relief as support mechanism, establishment of advisory boards, green procurement, promotion of social entrepreneurship and collaborative consumption, as well as delegation of municipalities' functions to NGOs, thus encouraging nonmaterial wellbeing by strengthening social ties and community activities. completed copyright copyright CC-BY-3.0: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported textTable und geoscientificInformation other version provides table in *.docx format application/pdf unknown https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.38856.d002 download dataset The data set was checked for completeness, correctness, and consistency of metainformation. Validity of used methods was checked and - if applicable - precision and range of data. Other version <gco:CharacterString>Supplementary material for article “Municipalities' role in promoting sustainable consumption, example of Latvia”</gco:CharacterString> hdl:10013/epic.38856.d001 documentDigital