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Author : Miguel-Ángel Alva-Gonzáles
Publisher : Cuvillier Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3867275963
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (672 download)
Download or read book Environmentally Unfriendly Consumption Behaviour written by Miguel-Ángel Alva-Gonzáles and published by Cuvillier Verlag. This book was released on 2008 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Signe Krarup
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781781958209
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (582 download)
Download or read book Environment, Information and Consumer Behaviour written by Signe Krarup and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade there has been growing interest in the role of information in the promotion of environmentally friendly behaviour. This book examines how and why the provision of such information can affect individual decisions concerning buying or consuming a product or valuing a policy. The information can take the form of a product label or a statement in a survey questionnaire, and the decision can be what product to buy, what food to eat or how to answer a contingent valuation question. The chapters in this volume carefully explore the explanations for consumer behaviour in different scenarios where information is provided about the 'public' implications of individual decisions. The first set of chapters examines the prospects for eco-labelling as a tool of environmental policy from a variety of different perspectives. They also look at how this form of information provision compares with more familiar policy instruments in achieving efficiency goals. In the second and third sections the focus is on environmental and food labelling, in which a combination of private and public motives for purchase decisions is found. Finally, the role of information in contingent valuation surveys is considered, in particular the impact of information and time in altering stated value responses.
Author : Markus Hadler
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030857964
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Surveying Climate-Relevant Behavior written by Markus Hadler and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-12 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book discusses the contribution of sociology and survey research to climate research. The authors address the questions of which behaviors are of climate relevance, who is engaging in these behaviors, in which contexts do these behaviors occur, and which individual perceptions and values are related to them. Utilizing survey research, the book focuses on the measurement of climate-relevant behaviors with population surveys and develops an instrument that allows a valid estimate of an individual’s GHG emissions with a few core items. While the development of these instruments was based on surveys and qualitative interviews conducted in Austria, the instruments were subsequently tested in a set of 31 European countries, revealing the international relevance of such research. The book also concludes with a brief consideration of the effects of the COVID-19 crisis on environmental attitudes, situating the project globally.
Author : Lucia A. Reisch
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Ecological Economics of Consumption written by Lucia A. Reisch and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research on consumption from an environmental perspective has exploded since the late 1990s. This important new volume cuts across disciplines to present the latest research in the field. The book is divided into three parts, the first of which addresses the problems of consumption both as a concept and as an economic and social force with high environmental impact. In the second part, the authors try to explain consumption as an attempt by individuals to satisfy different types of needs whilst simultaneously being embedded in certain lifestyles and constrained by time and daily routines. The final section looks at how change towards less environmentally damaging consumption patterns can be achieved through national sustainability and consumer policy measures, as well as through community building and individual action. In accordance with the transdisciplinary nature of ecological economics, the original contributions emanate from a variety of different perspectives to reflect the diversity of research in this growing field. By seriously exploring the role of consumption within ecological economics, this fine book will provide invaluable reading for students and researchers interested in sustainable consumption, ecological economics and consumer research.
Author : Juliana Mansvelt
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1452266190
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)
Download or read book Green Consumerism written by Juliana Mansvelt and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2010-05-04 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Via 150 signed entries, Green Consumerism: An A-to-Z Guide offers a wide-ranging examination of green consumerism, one reflecting the diversity of views and debates surrounding the concept. The multiplicity of topics and disciplinary perspectives provides a useful survey of the nature of green consumerism, the forms it takes, the issues impacting it, and the practices it involves. Contributing authors also provide insights into the social and spacial constitution of green consumerism, its multifaceted and sometimes contested contours, and the ways it is embedded and shaped in relation to wider cultural, economic, political and environmental processes. Readers will derive a sense not only of what green consumerism has become, but more critically, how it might evolve, addressing both limitations and possibilities for real and meaningful change. Vivid photographs, searchable hyperlinks, numerous cross references, an extensive resource guide, and a clear, accessible writing style make the Green Society volumes ideal for classroom use as well as for research.
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ISBN 13 : 9789464475340
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (753 download)
Download or read book Spillover of Pro-environmental Consumer Behavior written by and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Heesup Han
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000531112
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Sustainable Consumer Behaviour and the Environment written by Heesup Han and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-19 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book advances the tourism and hospitality industry’s contribution to meeting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 12 of responsible consumption and production. It enables a collaboration platform across these sectors in pursuit of common goals for promoting sustainable consumption and environmental protection. Sustainable consumer behavior is a principal topic in the current tourism and hospitality industry as many types of unsustainable consumptions pose a threat to society and the natural environment. Sustainable consumer behavior is a vital facet of protecting the environment that ultimately benefits the entire society. Individuals’ irresponsible consumption activities are undeniably considerable elicitors of harmful environmental, social, economic, and economic impacts throughout the world. Comprehending sustainable consumer behavior is of utmost importance for the tourism and hospitality industry to design innovative and responsible strategies to minimize the negative consequences of tourism. The scope of this book includes various sustainable consumptions, productions, and consumer behaviors in a variety of tourism and hospitality sectors and will be of great value to students, scholars, and researchers interested in areas such as sustainable consumer behaviour, hospitality, sustainable development, and tourism management. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Sustainable Tourism.
Author : Doug McKenzie-Mohr
Publisher : New Society Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1550924621
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Fostering Sustainable Behavior written by Doug McKenzie-Mohr and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The highly acclaimed manual for changing everyday habits-now in an all-newthird edition! We are consuming resources and polluting our environment at a rate that is outstripping our planet's ability to support us. To create a sustainable future, we must not only change our own actions, we must educate and encourage those around us to change theirs. If one individual recycles his plastic containers, the impact is minimal. But if an entire community recycles, enormous amounts of resources are saved. How then do we go about transforming people's good intentions into action? Fostering Sustainable Behavior explains how the field of community-based social marketing has emerged as an effective tool for encouraging positive social change. This completely revised and updated third edition contains a wealth of new research, behavior change tools, and case studies. Learn how to: target unsustainable behaviors, and identify the barriers to change understand various commitment strategies communicate effective messages enhance motivation and invite participation. The strategies introduced in this ground-breaking manual are an invaluable resource for anyone interested in promoting sustainable behavior, including environmental conservation, recycling and waste reduction, water and energyefficiency and alternative transportation.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309055989
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Environmentally Significant Consumption written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1997-07-09 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been much polemic about affluence, consumption, and the global environment. For some observers, "consumption" is at the root of global environmental threats: wealthy individuals and societies use far too much of the earth's resource base and should scale back their appetites to preserve the environment for future generations and allow a decent life for the rest of the world. Other observers see affluence as the way to escape environmental threats: economic development increases public pressure for environmental protection and makes capital available for environmentally benign technologies. The arguments are fed by conflicting beliefs, values, hopes, and fearsâ€"but surprisingly little scientific analysis. This book demonstrates that the relationship of consumption to the environment needs careful analysis by environmental and social scientists and conveys some of the excitement of treating the issue scientifically. It poses the key empirical questions: Which kinds of consumption are environmentally significant? Which actors are responsible for that consumption? What forces cause or explain environmentally significant consumption? How can it be changed? The book presents studies that open up important issues for empirical study: Are there any signs of saturation in the demand for travel in wealthy countries? What is the relationship between environmental consumption and human well-being? To what extent do people in developing countries emulate American consumption styles? The book also suggests broad strategies that scientists and research sponsors can use to better inform future debates about the environment, development, and consumption.
Author : Egbert Tellegen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134382782
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)
Download or read book Society and Its Environment written by Egbert Tellegen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1998.People cannot live without changing nature. They do so by breathing, feeding and defecating, by dressing and heating and by creating barriers against wind and water, cold and heat. These forms of human-induced change of nature have been present since the dawn of mankind. People are constantly confronted by a malignant nature against which they have to defend themselves and whose resources they have to use in order to survive. However, the relationship between man and nature has dramatically changed during the past centuries. More than the word 'nature', the term 'environment' has become strongly associated with damage and decay caused by human beings. Hence, in practice 'environment' is mostly associated with problems. In this book the term 'environment' does not describe different 'environments' and the way they are changed by human activities in general, but focuses on those human-induced of it. What are the causes of these changes, when and where are these changes considered as environmental problems and how do people react to these changes are the main questions of this book. One of the possible reactions to environmental problems is the efforts to solve them. The ways in which individual citizens, private enterprises, public authorities, environmental organizations and others try to solve environmental problems is a main topic of this book.
Author : Michael Brower
Publisher : Harmony
ISBN 13 : 0307427021
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices written by Michael Brower and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2009-11-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the most prestigious nonprofit organizations devoted to environmental issues comes a clear, practical, and rational overview of the relationship between consumers and the environment. Paper or plastic? Bus or car? Old house or new? Cloth diapers or disposables? Some choices have a huge impact on the environment; others are of negligible importance. To those of us who care about our quality of life and what is happening to the earth, this is a vastly important issue. In these pages, the Union of Concerned Scientists help inform consumers about everyday decisions that significantly affect the environment. For example, a few major decisions--such as the choice of a house or vehicle--have such a disproportionately large affect on the environment that minor environmental infractions shrink by comparison. This book identifies the 4 Most Significant Consumer-Related Environmental Problems, the 7 Most Damaging Spending Categories, 11 Priority Actions, and 7 Rules for Responsible Consumption. Learn what you can do to have a truly significant impact on our world from the people who are at the forefront of scientific research.
Author : Sigmund A. Wagner
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415316194
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Understanding Green Consumer Behaviour written by Sigmund A. Wagner and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the study of green, environmentally friendly consumers, this book incorporates original, groundbreaking anthropological and cognitive research to examine basic aspects of the workings of the human mind.
Author : Liisa Uusitalo
Publisher : Gower Publishing Company, Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Environmental Impacts of Consumption Patterns written by Liisa Uusitalo and published by Gower Publishing Company, Limited. This book was released on 1986 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Changing Consumer Behavior Towards Mindful Consumption Through Social Proof to Decrease Environmental Harm written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis describes overconsumption as a cause of climate change and environmental problems. It expands on the idea and definition of mindful consumption to include nine different consumer behaviors people can adopt to decrease their carbon footprint and harmful impacts on the environment. Research shows there is a value-action gap between what consumers value and their purchasing patterns. Therefore, this thesis demonstrates how to use the marketing tactic of social proof to change consumer behavior towards mindful consumption and close the value-action gap. Following suggested approaches of organizations applying social proof messaging to the nine mindful consumption practices, two case studies of researchers studying the influence of social proof messaging are included. This thesis aims to inspire readers to care and take responsibility for their personal and organizational impacts on the environment by changing consumption patterns.
Author : Liisa Uusitalo
Publisher : Gower Publishing Company, Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Consumer Behaviour and Environmental Quality written by Liisa Uusitalo and published by Gower Publishing Company, Limited. This book was released on 1983 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth R. DeSombre
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190636289
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Why Good People Do Bad Environmental Things written by Elizabeth R. DeSombre and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one sets out to intentionally cause environmental problems. All things being equal, we are happy to protect environmental resources; in fact, we tend to prefer our air cleaner and our species protected. But despite not wanting to create environmental problems, we all do so regularly in the course of living our everyday lives. Why do we behave in ways that cause environmental harm? It is often easy and inexpensive to behave in ways with bad environmental consequences, but more difficult and costly to take environmentally friendly actions. The incentives we face, some created by the nature of environmental resources, some by social and political structures, often do not make environmentally beneficial behavior the most likely choice. Furthermore, our behavior is conditioned by habits and social norms that fail to take environmental protection into consideration. In this book, Elizabeth R. DeSombre integrates research from political science, sociology, psychology, and economics to understand why bad environmental behavior makes perfect sense. As she notes, there is little evidence that having more information about environmental problems or the way an individual's actions contribute to them changes behavior in meaningful ways, and lack of information is rarely the underlying cause that connects behavior to harm. In some cases such knowledge may even backfire, as people come to see themselves as powerless to address huge global problems and respond by pushing these issues out of their minds. The fact that causing environmental problems is never anyone's primary goal means that people are happy to stop causing them if the alternative behavior still accomplishes their underlying goals. If we can figure out why those problems are caused, when no one intends to cause them, we can develop strategies that work to shift behavior in a positive direction. Over the course of this book, DeSombre considers the role of structure, incentives, information, habit, and norms on behavior in order to formulate lessons about how these factors lead to environmentally problematic behavior, and what understanding their effects can tell us about ways to change behavior. To prevent or address environmental problems, we have to understand why even good people do bad environmental things.
Author : Cecilia Solér
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351704885
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)
Download or read book Stress, Affluence and Sustainable Consumption written by Cecilia Solér and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do affluent consumers almost automatically acquire new versions or variations of products already at their disposal? Even though most of us know that this novelty consumption poses a serious threat to an environmentally and socially sustainable future, we continue to do it. Why? Research shows that consumption of new automobiles, clothing, furniture, electronics, home furnishing, household apparel, mobile phones, etc., is motivated by a desire to feel more secure, less anxious and better mood-wise. Affluent consumers seem to engage in novelty consumption not to feel better but rather to avoid feeling bad. Stress, Affluence and Sustainable Consumption discusses sustainable consumption from a stress perspective, adding an embodied understanding to the sustainability-related consumption challenges that we face today. A stress perspective on affluent consumption differs from current understandings on consumption, as it fully acknowledges the consumer as having a body (including a mind) that reacts to the numerous product offerings and retail spaces, both physical and online. A stress perspective can explain how our bodies try to cope with an overload of perceptual input provided by advertising messages, product launches and even store structures. This book will be of great interest to students and researchers of consumer psychology, sustainable consumption studies, sustainable marketing and markets as well as sustainable development more generally.
