Shifting consumer behavior to address climate change

Habib, Rishad; White, Katherine; Hardisty, David J.; Zhao, Jiaying

doi:10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.04.007

Cited by 40 publications

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“…The choice to drive a fossil-fuel-powered car for any given trip is not solely a result of individual preferences. As noted by respondents, when it comes to transportation, a simple decision links to many facets of human decision-making, such as pragmatic considerations of cost, safety, time, and competing commitments, as well as psychological factors like social norms, values, negative affect, identity, culture, and equity (Habib et al 2021). Key informants strongly emphasized the importance of these human dimensions, yet noted how they are frequently missing lenses brought to bear on the mobility climate-action challenge for Vancouver.…”

Section: The Human Dimensions Of Climate Action In Transportationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate action in urban mobility: personal and political transformations

Hochachka¹,

Logan²,

Raymond³

et al. 2022

Buildings and Cities

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Although many municipalities have climate action plans with targets and goals, effective climate action still faces significant implementation gaps. Implementation can falter due to barriers for the deployment of low-carbon solutions, as well as the lack of cultural, systemic, and psychological support for such solutions. Cultural drivers and perceptions shape citizens' behaviors and can perpetuate carbon-intensive lifestyles. This paper focuses on measures in climate action planning in the Metro Vancouver region of Canada regarding transportation, which remains the largest single source of greenhouse gas emissions and has a low chance of reaching its emissions-reductions targets. Shifting towards greater sustainability will entail a challenge of transformative change, involving shifts in systems, behaviors, worldviews, and cultures. In implementation, the full complexity of the climate action challenge becomes most evident. A scoping review of climate action documentation and semi-structured interviews are used to examine (1) barriers to effective implementation, (2) socio-cultural perceptions and approaches to public engagement and (3) novel areas for transformational action. The study found a need to reweight the focus of climate action, which is predominantly set on techno-managerial efforts, also to include communication, narratives and broader systems change, which are the key barriers to low-carbon urban mobility.

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Section: The Human Dimensions Of Climate Action In Transportationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate action in urban mobility: personal and political transformations

Hochachka¹,

Logan²,

Raymond³

et al. 2022

Buildings and Cities

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“…In an effort to bridge this attitude–behavior gap, White, Habib, & Hardisty (White et al, 2019, p. 23) developed a framework to promote sustainable behaviors and encourage more environmental sustainability research. Their SHIFT framework examines how to use S ocial influence, H abit, the I ndividual self, F eelings and cognition, and T angibility to promote environmentally conscious behaviors (Habib et al, 2021; White et al, 2019). Future research should explore specific strategies and promising practices for using the SHIFT framework to encourage sustainable food consumption and plant‐based diets.…”

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Plant power: SEEDing our future with plant‐based eating

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The climate crisis, coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement, are contributing to a shift in what people eat. For environmental sustainability, ethical, social justice, and health reasons, people are embracing plant-based diets, which involve consuming mostly fruits, vegetables, grains, and beans and little or no meat and dairy products. Drawing on insights from consumer psychology, this review synthesizes academic research at the intersection of food and consumer values to propose a framework for understanding how and why these values-Sustainability, Ethics, Equity, and Dining for health-are transforming what people eat. We term our model the SEED framework. We build this framework around a report assembled by the Rockefeller Foundation (2021) that describes how to grow a value-based societal food system. Finally, we highlight insights from consumer psychology that promote an understanding of how consumer values are shifting people's diets and raise research questions to encourage more consumer psychologists to investigate how and why values influence what consumers eat, which in turn impacts the well-being of people, our environment, and society.

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“…In the long term, the implemented actions may also induce further changes in consumer behavior by triggering additional psychological mechanisms identified as important determinants of behavior (Ajzen, 1991; Schwarzer, 2008; Sniehotta et al, 2005), such as changes in social norms or self‐efficacy regarding sustainable and healthy consumption. For instance, if more people consume sustainable and healthy products, they may create an injunctive norm: through observing others making healthier and more sustainable food choices, individuals may be encouraged to engage in the same behaviors (Habib et al, 2021). Furthermore, implementing actions from the Farm to Fork strategy signals a descriptive norm, that is, that sustainable and healthy consumption is seen as a commendable behavior of citizens of the European Union.…”

Section: Evaluating the Farm To Fork Strategy From A Health Psycholog...mentioning

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Will the Farm to Fork strategy be effective in changing food consumption behavior? A health psychology perspective

König

Araújo‐Soares

2021

Applied Eco Perspectives Pol

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Food production accounts for one-third of greenhouse gas emissions; the Farm to Fork strategy aims to make food systems more sustainable and healthier to curb the rising global surface temperature. It includes several actions targeting consumer behavior, including increasing the availability of sustainable and healthy products and mandatory nutritional labeling. The actions address relevant psychological mechanisms; however, the outlined actions are vague and based on only a small number of behavioral determinants that may limit effectiveness. The implementation may furthermore benefit from concepts of implementation science to increase acceptability and feasibility to reach its ambitious goals.

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Shifting consumer behavior to address climate change

Cited by 40 publications

References 53 publications

Climate action in urban mobility: personal and political transformations

Climate action in urban mobility: personal and political transformations

Plant power: SEEDing our future with plant‐based eating

Will the Farm to Fork strategy be effective in changing food consumption behavior? A health psychology perspective

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