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Donald Huisingh - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Procedures and criteria to develop and evaluate household Sustainable Consumption indicators
Journal of Cleaner Production, 2012Co-Authors: Sandra Caeiro, Tomás B. Ramos, Donald HuisinghAbstract:Abstract Communication about very complex problems like household Sustainable Consumption in simple terms is still a major challenge. Despite the diversity of tools to measure household Consumption, clearer indicators are needed to more effectively communicate with the general public. The main objective of this research was to develop an approach to define the main procedures and criteria to built household Sustainable Consumption assessment tools based on indicator sets. A review of available household Sustainable Consumption assessment metrics and related initiatives was conducted; this included a comparative analysis of the different approaches. The review revealed that the majority of these initiatives are focused upon specific domains (e.g. energy or waste), but none used an integrated approach in the Sustainable Consumption domains. Furthermore, it was found that few methods used indicators to measure and assess household Sustainable Consumption. Principal components and a checklist of key good-practice factors that a household Sustainable Consumption indicator system should include were developed. Due to the need to communicate effectively, to engage stakeholders and to address the complexity involved in the measurement and assessment of household Sustainable Consumption, the proposed integrated approach was designed to evaluate household Sustainable Consumption.
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A conceptual model for the development of household Sustainable Consumption indicators
2010Co-Authors: Sandra Caeiro, Tomás B. Ramos, Donald HuisinghAbstract:Despite the diversity of tools to measure household Consumption, indicators are one of the approaches with great potential, due to their communication and comprehensible easiness for non-scientific public, like families. The main objective of this research was the development of a framework to define the main steps and criteria to built household Sustainable Consumption assessment tools based on indicator sets. To put in practice the proposed model an overview of available household Sustainable Consumption metrics initiatives was conducted, including a comparison of their methodological approaches. This overview showed that the majority of these metrics are focus on some specific domains (e.g. energy or waste), not using an integrated approach of the Sustainable Consumption domains, and that very few used indicators to measure and assess household Sustainable Consumption. The developed framework is supported by several principal components and a checklist of key good-practice factors that a household Sustainable Consumption indicator system should have. Due to the demonstrated need to communicate easily, to engage stakeholders and due to the complexity involved in the measurement and assessment of household Sustainable Consumption, the proposed framework can be very usefulness in developing and evaluating the effectiveness of household Sustainable Consumption indicator sets. Nevertheless it should be used as a flexible framework that can be tailored to each particular case and continuous monitored and reviewed about its overall accuracy and feasibility.
Włodzimierz Sroka - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Sustainable Consumption Behavior at Home and in the Workplace: Avenues for Innovative Solutions
Sustainability, 2020Co-Authors: Jūratė Banytė, Laura Šalčiuvienė, Aistė Dovalienė, Žaneta Piligrimienė, Włodzimierz SrokaAbstract:Companies which offer innovative solutions to aid the achievement of Sustainable Consumption behavior of individuals in home environment gain a competitive advantage. The study aims to uncover the relationship between the engagement in Sustainable Consumption and Sustainable Consumption behavior of individuals at home and in the workplace environments enabling companies to provide innovative solutions to advance sustainability management. This research holds that Sustainable Consumption behavior is a process and the focus of this study is use behavior. An online survey was employed to collect data from 407 respondents in the United Kingdom. Consumers working in both private and public sectors were surveyed. Data analysis suggests that one dimension of engagement in Sustainable Consumption, namely, Enthusiasm and Attention, mostly influences Sustainable Consumption behavior at home and in the workplace. Further, females feature higher Sustainable Consumption behavior at home and in the workplace most of the time in comparison to males. Also, there are age differences apropos Sustainable Consumption behavior at home and in the workplace. Social Learning Theory and Collaborative Consumption Theory are used to raise hypotheses and explain findings. The findings lead to practical implications for companies regarding engagement and Sustainable Consumption behavior in both environments in terms of incentives, green product and service innovation that may be offered to individuals to enhance sustainability.
Maurie J. Cohen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Frontiers in Sustainable Consumption Research
GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 2016Co-Authors: Lucia A. Reisch, John Thøgersen, Maurie J. Cohen, Arnold TukkerAbstract:While the field of Sustainable Consumption research is relatively young, it has already attracted scholars from all corners of the social sciences. The time has come to identify a new research agenda as trends in Sustainable Consumption research seem to suggest the dawning of a new phase. Not only does research need to be guided, but Sustainable Consumption policymaking, too, involving best practices around the application of standard and more innovative instruments. © 2016 L. A. Reisch et al.
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Sustainable Consumption Research as Democratic Expertise
Journal of Consumer Policy, 2006Co-Authors: Maurie J. CohenAbstract:Academic proponents of Sustainable Consumption have marshaled considerable evidence over the past decade to support calls for more efficacious lifeways among residents of the world’s developed countries. Policymakers continue, however, to resist these recommendations because Sustainable Consumption runs counter to dominant tenets of neo-liberal economics and conventional political objectives. Unless investigators in the field can identify a cadre of clients that is interested in forming tacit partnerships, the concept of Sustainable Consumption is likely to remain little more than a prospective pursuit. This article suggests that there are some nascent indications that these kinds of alliances are developing. For Sustainable Consumption to take root in the policy sphere, it will be necessary to more actively foster these relationships and to cast this form of knowledge as a form of democratic counterexpertise that challenges elite economic and political institutions that regularly appropriate and deploy consumer science to advance their own interests.
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Exploring Sustainable Consumption
2001Co-Authors: Maurie J. CohenAbstract:Consumerism is increasingly recognized as a major drain on global resources and the search for Sustainable Consumption is emerging as a key policy issue. This text locates the problem within a specific history and recruits specialist opinions from a variety of disciplines.
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Exploring Sustainable Consumption : environmental policy and the social sciences
2001Co-Authors: Maurie J. Cohen, Joseph MurphyAbstract:Table of contents. List of figures. List of tables. List of contributors. Preface. Introduction. Consumption, environment and public policy (J. Murphy, M. Cohen). The Politics of Sustainable Consumption. The emerging international policy discourse on Sustainable Consumption (M. Cohen). Sustainable Consumption and environmental policy in the European Union (J. Murphy). Values, Ethics and Sustainable Consumption. Liberal neutrality and Consumption: the dispute over fur (M. Oksanen). Economics, ethics and green consumerism (J. Paavola). Place, Space and Networks: Geographies of Sustainable Consumption. Sustaining foods: organic Consumption and the socio-ecological imaginary (D. Goodman, M. Goodman). Changing nature: the Consumption of space and the construction of nature on the 'Mayan Riviera' (M. Redclift). Sustainable Consumption: Technology, Culture and People. Working for beans and refrigerators: learning about environmental policy from Mexican northern-border consumers (J. Heyman). Control and flow: rethinking the sociology, technology and politics of water Consumption (H. Chappells et al.). Identity, Behaviour and Lifestyle: the Social Psychology of Sustainable Consumption. Environmental concern and anti-consumerism in the self-concept: do they share the same basis? (S. Zavestoski). Sustainable lifestyles: rethinking barriers and behaviour change (K. Hobson). Conclusion: Working Toward Sustainable Consumption. Sustainable Consumption by design (K. Fletcher et al.). Sustainable Consumption: environmental policy and the social sciences (J. Murphy, M. Cohen). Index.
Gill Seyfang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the new economics of Sustainable Consumption seeds of change
2016Co-Authors: Gill SeyfangAbstract:Introduction: A Consuming Issue Sustainable Consumption: A Mainstream Agenda Sustainable Consumption and the New Economics Grassroots Innovations for Sustainable Consumption Sustainable Food: Growing Carrots and Community Sustainable Housing: Building a Greener Future Sustainable Currencies: Green Money from The Grassroots Conclusions: Seedbeds for Sustainable Consumption References
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Grassroots Innovations for Sustainable Consumption
The New Economics of Sustainable Consumption, 2009Co-Authors: Gill SeyfangAbstract:Everybody, it appears, is committed to Sustainable Consumption; but not everybody is seeking it in the same way. Moves towards sustainability are generating a variety of social innovations as well as innovative technologies — new organisational arrangements and new tools — in different arenas and at different scales to address Consumption issues. Grassroots, niche innovations of the type discussed in Chapter 3 differ from commercial business reforms such as those favoured by mainstream policy in Chapter 2; they practise quite different kinds of Sustainable Consumption. There is a qualitative difference between, for instance, a community-supported organic vegetable box scheme and the range of organic products sold at a supermarket; the social, economic and environmental dimensions of Sustainable Consumption are traded-off differently. In order to better understand the role and potential of community-based New Economics efforts to move towards Sustainable Consumption patterns, this chapter examines the characteristics of grassroots initiatives, and sets out a new conceptual model which views them as specifically innovative activities.
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Sustainable Consumption: A Mainstream Agenda
The New Economics of Sustainable Consumption, 2009Co-Authors: Gill SeyfangAbstract:Green has gone mainstream. Between 2002 and 2006 the UK retail market for ethical goods and services grew by over 80% to £32.3 billion, representing an average household spend of £664 (Co-operative Bank, 2007), and mainstream media promotes the new orthodoxy of demonstrating one’s ecological credentials through consumer purchases. Yet only 20 years ago this sort of lifestyle activism was the preserve of a small minority of radicals, and the mainstream economy was untouched by environmental or social concerns. How did this shift happen? How did Sustainable Consumption move from the margins to become the powerhouse of political change its advocates claim it represents? In this chapter we consider the institutional development of the concept of ‘Sustainable Consumption’ through a brief review of the landmark events and publications which have put Sustainable Consumption onto the international agenda and defined its use.
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Sustainable Consumption and environmental inequalities
2007Co-Authors: Gill Seyfang, Jouni PaavolaAbstract:This article examines the potential for cross-fertilisation between the Sustainable Consumption scholarship and the environmental justice scholarship. The article first maps the two areas of scholarship, discussing the cognitive, social marketing and social provisioning systems literatures of Sustainable Consumption and the empirical and conceptual literature on environmental justice. The article then discusses the potential for cross-fertilisation between the two areas of scholarship. It indicates how Sustainable Consumption scholarship can benefit from the social justice sensitivity of the environmental justice scholarship, and how the latter area of scholarship can gain a whole new area of empirical research focusing on social justice aspects of Consumption. The article seeks to demonstrate the social and policy significance of the cross-fertilisation by comparing the Consumption and environmental justice implications of carbon taxation and personal carbon allowance trading as tools of carbon management. The article suggests that to be fair, both strategies of carbon management require complementary (albeit different) measures that address background inequalities and capabilities to act in the setting created by the instruments.
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ecological citizenship and Sustainable Consumption examining local organic food networks
Journal of Rural Studies, 2006Co-Authors: Gill SeyfangAbstract:Abstract Sustainable Consumption is gaining in currency as a new environmental policy objective. This paper presents new research findings from a mixed-method empirical study of a local organic food network to interrogate the theories of both Sustainable Consumption and ecological citizenship. It describes a mainstream policy model of Sustainable Consumption, and contrasts this with an alternative model derived from green or ‘new economics’ theories. Then the role of localised, organic food networks is discussed to locate them within the alternative model. It then tests the hypothesis that ecological citizenship is a driving force for ‘alternative’ Sustainable Consumption, via expression through consumer behaviour such as purchasing local organic food. The empirical study found that both the organisation and their consumers were expressing ecological citizenship values in their activities in a number of clearly identifiable ways, and that the initiative was actively promoting the growth of ecological citizenship, as well as providing a meaningful social context for its expression. Furthermore, the initiative was able to overcome the structural limitations of mainstream Sustainable Consumption practices. Thus, the initiative was found to be a valuable tool for practising alternative Sustainable Consumption. The paper concludes with a discussion of how ecological citizenship may be a powerful motivating force for Sustainable Consumption behaviour, and the policy and research implications of this.
Sandra Caeiro - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Procedures and criteria to develop and evaluate household Sustainable Consumption indicators
Journal of Cleaner Production, 2012Co-Authors: Sandra Caeiro, Tomás B. Ramos, Donald HuisinghAbstract:Abstract Communication about very complex problems like household Sustainable Consumption in simple terms is still a major challenge. Despite the diversity of tools to measure household Consumption, clearer indicators are needed to more effectively communicate with the general public. The main objective of this research was to develop an approach to define the main procedures and criteria to built household Sustainable Consumption assessment tools based on indicator sets. A review of available household Sustainable Consumption assessment metrics and related initiatives was conducted; this included a comparative analysis of the different approaches. The review revealed that the majority of these initiatives are focused upon specific domains (e.g. energy or waste), but none used an integrated approach in the Sustainable Consumption domains. Furthermore, it was found that few methods used indicators to measure and assess household Sustainable Consumption. Principal components and a checklist of key good-practice factors that a household Sustainable Consumption indicator system should include were developed. Due to the need to communicate effectively, to engage stakeholders and to address the complexity involved in the measurement and assessment of household Sustainable Consumption, the proposed integrated approach was designed to evaluate household Sustainable Consumption.
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A conceptual model for the development of household Sustainable Consumption indicators
2010Co-Authors: Sandra Caeiro, Tomás B. Ramos, Donald HuisinghAbstract:Despite the diversity of tools to measure household Consumption, indicators are one of the approaches with great potential, due to their communication and comprehensible easiness for non-scientific public, like families. The main objective of this research was the development of a framework to define the main steps and criteria to built household Sustainable Consumption assessment tools based on indicator sets. To put in practice the proposed model an overview of available household Sustainable Consumption metrics initiatives was conducted, including a comparison of their methodological approaches. This overview showed that the majority of these metrics are focus on some specific domains (e.g. energy or waste), not using an integrated approach of the Sustainable Consumption domains, and that very few used indicators to measure and assess household Sustainable Consumption. The developed framework is supported by several principal components and a checklist of key good-practice factors that a household Sustainable Consumption indicator system should have. Due to the demonstrated need to communicate easily, to engage stakeholders and due to the complexity involved in the measurement and assessment of household Sustainable Consumption, the proposed framework can be very usefulness in developing and evaluating the effectiveness of household Sustainable Consumption indicator sets. Nevertheless it should be used as a flexible framework that can be tailored to each particular case and continuous monitored and reviewed about its overall accuracy and feasibility.
