Policies to promote sustainable consumption: Innovative approaches in Europe

Scholl, Gerd; Rubik, Frieder; Kalimo, Harri; Biedenkopf, Katja; Söebech, Olöf

doi:10.1111/j.1477-8947.2010.01294.x

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“…When we opt to classify consumers into two groups of flexitarians-one making minor adjustments to habitual meat-consumption patterns and another undertaking radical transformations-another suggestion for future studies may be to consider the notions of weak sustainable consumption (wSC) and strong sustainable consumption (sSC), in which wSC is about choosing products that are less burdensome for the environment while sSC refers to fundamental changes in consumption patterns (i.e., reduction of consumption levels) (Fuchs & Lorek, 2005;Scholl et al 2010;Lorek & Fuchs, 2013;see also De Bakker & Dagevos, 2012). The division between wSC and sSC makes a difference between quality-consuming differently and efficiently-and quantity-consuming less.…”

Section: Modes Of Meat Reduction In Future Researchmentioning

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Sustainability and meat consumption: is reduction realistic?

Dagevos

Voordouw

2013

Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy

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Meat is critical with respect to sustainability because meat products are among the most energy-intensive and ecologically burdensome foods. Empirical studies of the meat-consumption frequency of Dutch consumers show that, apart from meat-avoiders and meat-eaters, many people are meat-reducers that eat no meat at least one day per week. Meat-consumption frequencies provide empirical evidence for different modes of "flexitarianism," including light, medium, and heavy flexitarians. In particular, the existence of heavy flexitarians suggests that the customary position of meat and other animal-based dietary products in the food hierarchy is not inviolable. To improve our understanding of meat reduction, cluster analysis adds information about differences across flexitarians. Given the enormous environmental impact of animal-protein consumption and the apparent sympathy of consumers for meat reduction, it is surprising that politicians and policy makers demonstrate little, if any, interest in strategies to reduce meat consumption and to encourage more sustainable eating practices.

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Section: Modes Of Meat Reduction In Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainability and meat consumption: is reduction realistic?

Dagevos

Voordouw

2013

Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy

129

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“…They offer objective and time advantages for the customer [32]. Since the output of a service depends on the individual customer requirements being expressed in a specific form, it is not possible to provide a taxonomy for result-oriented requirements.…”

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“…The requirements of the category process-oriented requirements provide information on the service design and its activities [25,32]. Although the customer constitutes the triggering factor for the process for being able to offer the service, the service provider is also involved during the entire process.…”

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A requirements data model for product service systems

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Product service systems (PSS) are bundles of physical technological elements and service elements that are integrated to solve customer problems. In practice, most components of PSS are developed independently from each other, which leads to problems with coordination of development activities and integration of PSS components. Therefore, an integrated requirements engineering for PSS is needed that deals with the involvement of developers from product engineering, software engineering, and service engineering, as well as the inherent complexity of the PSS and the development process. In a case study with the development department of a PSS provider, we analyzed requirements documents and conducted expert interviews. We identified problems in the development, for example, that requirements on different levels of abstraction are intermingled, rationales for requirements are missing, and the concretization of requirements is unclear.To solve these problems, we propose a requirements data model (RDMod) for requirements to PSS. An RDMod describes different types of requirements and the relations between them. Thus, it is a scheme for the concretization of the requirements, which especially addresses the problems of structuring the requirements, enabling traceability, and finding conflicts. We then used an analytical evaluation, a feature-based evaluation and a retrospective application with requirements analysts of the industry partner. In a joint workshop, we specified requirements for a PSS with the RDMod. In structured interviews, we analyzed the perceived advantages of the RDMod. The experts confirmed that the RDMod is applicable in their development and it provides a clear structure for the requirements and therefore helps overcoming the identified problems.

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“…But this case is also interesting because it is not entirely isolated. Instead, the orientations that are noticeable in France rejoin and reflect more general developments, partly coming under initiatives from the European Union (Scholl et al 2010) and intergovernmental organizations (Fuchs and Lorek 2005). These orientations, which are caught in structural dynamics that go beyond them because they tend to be global (Fuchs and Lorek 2002), are also detectable in most industrialized countries, in more or less similar forms.…”

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“Sustainable consumption” as a new phase in a governmentalization of consumption

Rumpala

2011

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With the rise of environmental themes and the increasing support of the "sustainable development" objective, public institutions have shown a renewed interest in the sphere of consumption. During the 1990s, a new dimension in public regulation was developed for the more downstream part of economic circuits, precisely to eliminate the negative effects of consumption and to be able to subject it to criteria of "sustainability." The initiatives taken thus far have in fact mainly targeted the general population, primarily considered as a set of individual consumers. The latter are expected to become aware of their share of responsibility in the pressures exerted on natural resources and environments, and thus of the need to adapt their consumption habits in order to improve the situation. This article proposes to seize this dynamic, which seems to be expanding. It examines the discursive and programmatic frameworks, which together redefine the role of both the consumer and the citizen to arrive at an individual who can be interested and mobilized in favor of new recommendations. It analyzes the logic from which an effort attempting to make acts of consumption conform to renewed requirements has been established in its wake. This allows for a better understanding of the institutional devices that have been favored, in particular insofar as they appear to be the result of a constrained space of possibilities. In brief, it is a governmentality that tends to be deployed, although it is also likely to give rise to tensions.

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Policies to promote sustainable consumption: Innovative approaches in Europe

Cited by 42 publications

References 9 publications

Sustainability and meat consumption: is reduction realistic?

Sustainability and meat consumption: is reduction realistic?

A requirements data model for product service systems

“Sustainable consumption” as a new phase in a governmentalization of consumption

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