The Shift from Consumer Protection to Consumer Empowerment and the Consequences for Sustainable Consumption

2019 ◽  
pp. 49-61
Author(s):  
Patrícia Galindo da Fonseca
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Protection ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Consumer Empowerment

scholarly journals Studies and Investigation about the Attitude towards Sustainable Production, Consumption and Waste Generation in Line with Circular Economy in Romania

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 865 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Lakatos ◽  
Lucian-Ionel Cioca ◽  
Viorel Dan ◽  
Alina Ciomos ◽  
Oana Crisan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Circular Economy ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
World Population ◽  
Waste Generation ◽  
Consumer Empowerment ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Responsible Consumption ◽  
Sustainable Consumption And Production ◽  
Selective Collection

With a rapidly growing world population and the need to address the issue of consumption of global resource and its associated environmental impacts and other social and economic issues, the demand for a responsible consumption, production and prevention of waste generation become increasingly crucial. With this broad characterization of Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP), businesses based on circular economy should become the norm. With this goal in mind, an online questionnaire survey was performed on a nationwide scale, to explore consumers’ behaviors and attitudes. It was distributed in all four of Romania’s macro-regions and reached 642 respondents. The purpose of the study has been to better understand consumers’ behavior regarding sustainable consumption and production and examine whether generations play a role in responsible consumer attitudes toward the products. Three generations (X, Y, and Z) have been examined and compared. The results show that what extent those three generation agree with the environment and the benefits of reducing resource consumption, also waste generation, selective collection, recycling and reuse. However, most of them have not adopted and do not intend to adopt consumer patterns based on the circular economy. The findings provide empirical evidence and directions that could help marketers identify their consumer’s characteristics and market segments and develop consumer empowerment strategies on the Romanian market.

scholarly journals Pre-formulated Declarations of Data Subject Consent—Citizen-Consumer Empowerment and the Alignment of Data, Consumer and Competition Law Protections

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (05) ◽  
pp. 679-721 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damian Clifford ◽  
Inge Graef ◽  
Peggy Valcke
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Protection ◽  
Data Protection ◽  
Competition Law ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
Consumer Empowerment ◽  
General Data Protection Regulation ◽  
Data Protection Directive ◽  
Policy Agendas ◽  
Unfair Terms ◽  
Data Subject

AbstractOne of the novelties brought about by the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a strengthening of the concept of consent. For instance, although the freely given stipulation existed in the old framework—the Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC—the changes introduced by the GDPR arguably imply that access to services may no longer depend on data subject consent. In reality however, data subjects often find themselves confronted with standard privacy policies and take-it-or-leave-it offers. Against this background, this Article aims to examine the alignment of the respective data protection and privacy, consumer protection, and competition law policy agendas through the lens of pre-formulated declarations of consent. The Article aims to delineate the role of each area with specific reference to the GDPR and ePrivacy Directive, the Unfair Terms Directive, the Consumer Rights Directive, and the Digital Content Directive (Compromise), in addition to market dominance. Competition law analysis is explored vis-à-vis whether it could offer indicators of when a clear imbalance in controller-data subject relations may occur in the context of the requirement for consent to be freely given, as per its definition in the GDPR. This complements the data protection and consumer protection analysis which focuses on the specific reference to the Unfair Terms Directive in Recital 42 GDPR, stating that pre-formulated declarations of consent should not contain unfair terms.

scholarly journals Alternatif Model Partisipatif Didalam Pemberdayaan Konsumen Cerdas Di Desa Gondangrejo, Kecamatan Windusari, Kabupaten Magelang

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 01-07
Author(s):  
Rani Pajrin ◽  
RR Yunita Puspandari ◽  
Fathiya Nabila
Keyword(s):  
Community Service ◽  
Consumer Protection ◽  
Alternative Model ◽  
The Other ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Environmental Scanning ◽  
Consumer Empowerment ◽  
Consumer Group ◽  
Consumer Rights ◽  
Service Activity

Consumers' awareness in Indonesia in fighting for consumer rights is still relatively low, which can be seen from the Consumer Empowerment Index which is still lagging behind other European countries. Community service activities carried out in Gondangrejo Village, Windusari District, Magelang Regency are carried out by providing socialization and education about the importance of being a smart consumer who is aware of the rights and obligations of consumers. Rights and obligations are regulated in Law Number 8 of 1999 concerning Consumer Protection. The method used in this activity is a Participatory Alternative Model which uses Environmental Scanning, through the author's method of building the ability to view programs on an ongoing basis through mapping of related stakeholders. The purpose of this service activity is the participation of the community as consumers so that consumers can fulfill their rights as consumers. On the other hand, the smart consumer group can increase the national consumer empowerment index.

Contentment: An Important Factor for Sustainable Consumption

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose A. Rosa ◽  
Shikha N. Upadhyaya ◽  
Christopher P. Blocker
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Consumption

Difficulties of the Financial Reform in the USA

2013 ◽  
pp. 147-158
Author(s):  
V. Kulakova
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Consumer Protection ◽  
Financial Regulation ◽  
Financial Reform ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Political Sciences ◽  
Consumer Protection Act ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Major Factors ◽  
International Financial Regulation

We study the reform of financial regulation initiated by the Dodd—Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. Major factors impeding Obama’s financial and economic policy are explored, including institutional difficulties, party warfare, lobbyism, and systemic inconsistencies of international financial regulation. We also examine challenges that are being faced by economic and political sciences due to the changes in financial regulation and also assess the level of radicality of the financial reform.

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