Sustainability strategies for organic food and farming [PDF]
, 2005 Local organic food should be an accessible alternative, both concerning availability and price, for a citizen-consumer influencing through food choices, and for the rural poor.
Kahiluoto, Helena
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Factory Farms in a Consumer Society [PDF]
, 2009 Originally developed to describe the industrialization of American agriculture, the term “factory farm” became an increasingly pervasive metaphor in American culture through the 20th Century.
Lavin, Chad
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Where Will Consumers Find Privacy Protection From RFIDs?: A Case for Federal Legislation [PDF]
, 2007 With the birth of RFID technology, businesses gained the ability to tag products with practically invisible computer chips that relay information about consumer behavior to remote databases.
Stein, Serena G.
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Giving consumers a political voice : organized consumerism and the Belgian Welfare State, 1957-1981 [PDF]
, 2017 Immediately after the Second World War, the word ‘consumer’ was an ill-defined signifier. By the early eighties, citizens’ interests were often routinely equated with consumer interests.
Nath, Giselle
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Robust, Recognizable and Legitimate: Strengthening India's Appliance Efficiency Standards and Labels Through Greater Civil Society Involvement [PDF]
, 2013 Residential use accounts for 14 percent of global energy consumption. Appliance standards alone could achieve 17 percent energy reductions in the residential sector.
Bharath Jairaj +2 more
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Individualism, Environmentalism and Social Change [PDF]
, 2012 Market logic encourages the idea everything can be bought and sold, and in effect creates an individualized society. This individualization affects consumption habits, environmental action, and social change.
Chelstowski, Alex
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Consumption in action. Mapping consumerism in international academic literature [PDF]
, 2016 The consumer-citizen and more generally, the emergence of active forms of citizenship mediated by consumption point to a change in the relations of production, consumption and distribution.
Pattaro, Chiara, Setiffi, Francesca
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Several considerations regarding the online consumer in the 21st century – a theoretical approach [PDF]
In nowadays' informational society, both the rapid pace development of technology and Internet's heavy influence on everyday's life brought along new characteristics to the 21st century consumer.
Nicoleta-Dorina RACOLTA-PAINA +1 more
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Clusters of consumer behavior for food and near-food products in Romania [PDF]
: The analysis of the consumer behavior has become one of the most important aspects in the way companies make their decision and the way they develop their strategy.
Corina PELĂU, Nicolae ISTUDOR
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The relevance of Jean Baudrillard’s exchange philosophy of value with consumption ethics in Islam [PDF]
, 2014 Jean Baudrillard is postmodern philosopher, he was analyzing about consumer society in relation with system of sign. Consumer society does not buy what they need, but what code delivers about what should be bought. In consumer society which is controlled
Hamidah, Lu’luil
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