Trading off environmental attributes in food consumption choices

Bauw, Michiel De; Franssens, Samuel; Vranken, Liesbet

doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2022.102338

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“…The exceptions are Mexico and USA. In contrast there is no universal organic logo (see for e.g., [ 22 ]). Finally carbon labelling shows the amount of emissions of six greenhouse gases over a product’s life cycle.…”

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Ecolabels and the economic recession

Raychaudhuri,

Wossink

2023

PLoS ONE

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We examine the effect of the 2008 economic recession on consumers’ observed expenditures for eco-labelled grocery products. Traditional price theory predicts that consumers change their spending during an economic downturn and we would expect the sales share of eco-labelled products to fall since these are relatively more expensive than non-labelled products. We use supermarket loyalty card data from the UK and show that the recession had widely different effects on the expenditure share of different eco-labelled grocery products. We confirm, empirically, that expenditure shares on organic products declined over the time period under study but the expenditures share for fair-trade products increased over the same period. We evaluate alternative models of decision making to explain our results, viz., a salience model and a model of reputation signalling. We find that both of these models give a plausible explanation of our empirical results.

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Ecolabels and the economic recession

Raychaudhuri,

Wossink

2023

PLoS ONE

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Conceptualizing sustainable consumption priming: A scoping review

Hao,

Plangger,

West

2024

Psychology and Marketing

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While many psychological interventions encourage sustainable consumption by altering attitudes, these modified attitudes often do not result in sustainable choices leading to the need to test alternative interventions to facilitate sustainable consumption, such as priming. Priming uses stimuli that trigger nonconscious processing that influences decisions. Despite its popularity, studies that employ priming strategies in sustainable consumption research are widely dispersed across several conceptual domains. This article unpacks and summarizes different approaches to priming sustainable behavior by delineating theoretical and methodological perspectives in various contexts across diverse consumer characteristics. The method employed is a scoping review of 74 articles published over 23 years (2000–2022). The resulting review (1) provides an overview of priming in sustainable consumption, (2) highlights knowledge gaps, (3) identifies knowledge clusters, and (4) proposes a research agenda for future investigations. Primarily, this paper provides an integrated map that deconstructs how researchers have explored priming interventions to promote sustainable consumption and to enable the best, or at least, better practice.

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