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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
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, 2023 AbstractIn this chapter we exam the concept of sustainable consumption, we look at how consumption not only drives resource consumption at home but also abroad. We examine the areas requiring the most action. While the actions that consumers can take to reduce their consumption of resources may seem on the face of it trivial, putting them into practice
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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.
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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 ...
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Resource Consumption, Sustainability, and Cancer [PDF]
Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 2014 Preserving a system's viability in the presence of diversity erosion is critical if the goal is to sustainably support biodiversity. Reduction in population heterogeneity, whether inter- or intraspecies, may increase population fragility, either decreasing its ability to adapt effectively to environmental changes or facilitating the survival and ...
Kareva, Irina +2 more
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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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 +6 more
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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 ...
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