Sustainable Consumption and the Attitude-Behaviour-Gap Phenomenon - Causes and Measurements towards a Sustainable Development
- Sustainable development needs sustainable production and sustainable consumption. During the last decades the encouragement of sustainable production has been the focus of research and policy makers under the implicit assumption that the observable increasing ‘green’ values of consumers would also entail a growing sustainable consumption. However, it has been found that the actual purchasing behaviour often deviates from ‘green’ attitudes. This phenomenon is called the attitude-behaviour gap. It is influenced by individual, social and situational factors. The main purchasing barriers for sustainable (organic) food are price, lack of immediate availability, sensory criteria, lack or overload of information as well as the low-involvement feature of food products in conjunction with well-established consumption routines, lack of transparency and trust towards labels and certifications.
Document Type: | Conference Object |
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Language: | English |
Author: | Wiltrud Terlau, Darya Hirsch |
Parent Title (English): | Deiters, Rickert et al. (Eds.): System Dynamics and Innovation in Food Networks 2015. Proceedings of the 9th International European Forum on System Dynamics and Innovation in Food Networks, February 09-13, 2015, Innsbruck-Igls, Austria |
First Page: | 199 |
Last Page: | 214 |
ISSN: | 2194-511X |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:1044-opus-16979 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.18461/pfsd.2015.1516 |
Publisher: | Centma |
Place of publication: | Bonn |
Publishing Institution: | Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg |
Date of first publication: | 2015/06/02 |
Copyright: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License |
Keyword: | Sustainable development; attitude-behaviour-gap; behavioural economics; consumer decision models; ethical values; homo oeconomicus; interdisciplinarity; organic food; responsible consumer |
Departments, institutes and facilities: | Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC): | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 303 Gesellschaftliche Prozesse |
3 Sozialwissenschaften / 38 Handel, Kommunikation, Verkehr / 380 Handel, Kommunikation, Verkehr | |
Entry in this database: | 2015/08/21 |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - CC BY-NC - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell 4.0 International |