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Sustainable Consumption Dilemmas [PDF]

Sustainability, 2017
To examine which considerations play a role when individuals make decisions to purchase sustainable product varieties or not, we have conducted a large scale field experiment with more than 600 participating households. Households can vote on whether the budgets they receive should only be spent on purchasing the sustainable product variety, or whether
Kees Vringer, Eline van der Heijden, Daan van Soest, Herman Vollebergh, Frank Dietz   +4 more
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Mirke Neighbourhood Panel: Accompanying research for the Solar Decathlon Europe 21/22

TATuP – Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis, 2023
The international architecture competition Solar Decathlon Europe was held in Wuppertal in 2022 and focused on sustainable building and living in the city.
Franziska Stelzer, Franziska Pennekamp, Lea Kings, Melina Freudenthal   +3 more
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Sufficiency in social practices: An underestimated potential for the transformation to a circular economy

Frontiers in Sustainability, 2023
To date, the circular economy has fallen short of its promise to reduce our resource demand and transform our production and consumption system. One key problem is the lack of understanding that highly promising strategies such as refuse, rethink, and ...
Pauline Suski, Pauline Suski, Alexandra Palzkill, Melanie Speck, Melanie Speck   +4 more
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Energy-Efficient Retrofit Measures (EERM) in Residential Buildings: An Application of Discrete Choice Modelling

Buildings, 2021
Cross-country evidence on the adoption of energy-efficient retrofit measures (EERMs) in residential buildings is critical to supporting the development of national and pan-European policies aimed at fostering the energy performance upgrade of the ...
Clara Camarasa, Lokesh Kumar Kalahasthi, Ivan Sanchez-Díaz, Leonardo Rosado, Lena Hennes, Katrin Bienge, Ian Hamilton   +6 more
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The Sustainability of “Sustainable Consumption” [PDF]

Journal of Macromarketing, 2002
This article examines the limitations of the concept of sustainable consumption in terms of the inadequate attention given to the social, cultural, and historical contextualization of consumption. The author argues that macromarketing should adopt modes of inquiry that fully engage with this contextualization.
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“Norm-Oriented Interpretation Learning” and Resource Use: The Concept of “Open-Didactic Exploration” as a Contribution to Raising Awareness of a Responsible Resource Use

Resources, 2014
It is widely accepted that environmental awareness is essential, yet does not inevitably lead to responsible use of resources. Additional factors on the individual level include the meaning constructed by the term “resources” and the individual and ...
Anna Bliesner, Christa Liedtke, Maria Jolanta Welfens, Carolin Baedeker, Marco Hasselkuß, Holger Rohn   +5 more
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Resource Use in the Production and Consumption System—The MIPS Approach

Resources, 2014
The concept Material Input per Service Unit (MIPS) was developed 20 years ago as a measure for the overall natural resource use of products and services.
Christa Liedtke, Katrin Bienge, Klaus Wiesen, Jens Teubler, Kathrin Greiff, Michael Lettenmeier, Holger Rohn   +6 more
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A framework of circular business models for fashion and textiles: the role of business-model, technical, and social innovation

Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy, 2022
The textiles production and consumption system is a priority product-value chain for the European Commission in its 2020 Circular Economy Action Plan. The Action Plan foresees a European Union strategy for sustainable textiles in a circular economy with ...
Luca Coscieme, Saskia Manshoven, Jeroen Gillabel, Francesca Grossi, Lars F. Mortensen   +4 more
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Exploring Household Food Waste Reduction for Carbon Footprint Mitigation: A Case Study in Shanghai, China

Foods, 2023
With the steady growth of the global population and the accelerated urbanization process, the carbon footprint resulting from food waste has a significant impact on the environment and sustainable development.
Chang Liu, Jie Shang, Chen Liu
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Just Transitions, Poverty and Energy Consumption: Personal Carbon Accounts and Households in Poverty

Energies, 2020
Complex relations exist between issues of poverty, responsibility and just transitions toward reduced household energy use. One proposed transitional instrument is Personal Carbon Accounts (PCAs) which provide equal per capita carbon allowances and ...
Martin Burgess, Mark Whitehead
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