The Assessment of College Students Knowledge and Practice Regarding the Application of Sustainable Consumption Patterns in Yogyakarta, Indonesia

This chapter summarizes the global problems associated with livestock production and meat consumption and shows solution strategies through replacing animal products with plant-based alternatives. The positive effects of plant-based alternatives on human health and the environment are reviewed together with approaches for reducing world hunger. Psychological strategies for nutritional transitions towards more sustainable consumption patterns and criteria for market success of meat alternatives are presented. This is followed by an overview of meat alternatives – from soy1, lupine or wheat based, to bleeding burgers and artificial intelligence concepts. Marketing strategies and best practice policy suggestions complete the chapter.

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Climate Change and the Circular Economy

10.4018/978-1-6684-3686-8.ch099 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 1965-1983

Author(s):

Aakriti Mathur ◽

Kanwal Deepinder Pal Singh

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Circular Economy ◽

Sustainable Consumption ◽

Consumption Patterns ◽

Annual Rate ◽

Consumption Behavior ◽

Global Demand ◽

The World ◽

Ability To Regenerate ◽

Climate Crisis

The world is presently facing a climate catastrophe of its own making through the unabated increase in greenhouse gas emissions. Global consumption patterns are to blame, as presently, the global annual demand for resources outpaces the annual rate of the earth's ability to regenerate those resources. Thus, there is an urgent need to reduce the global demand for resources to a sustainable level, through the adoption of a circular economy. Individual consumption behavior habits form the basis of global consumption patterns, and therefore, adoption of sustainable consumption habits and lifestyles are necessary for addressing the climate crisis. In this chapter, the authors assess the potential for addressing the climate crisis through the adoption of a circular economy and sustainable consumption behavior. The authors also evaluate the extent of adoption of sustainable consumption behavior in India and make recommendations for adopting a circular economy in India.

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Changing Consumption Patterns in Green Economy

Agricultural Management Strategies in a Changing Economy - Advances in Finance, Accounting, and Economics ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-7521-6.ch009 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 186-212 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Violeta Sima ◽

Ileana Georgiana Gheorghe

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Consumption ◽

Consumption Patterns ◽

Green Economy ◽

Consumption Pattern ◽

The European Union ◽

Review Of The Literature ◽

European Consumer ◽

The Social ◽

Key Features ◽

Consumer Habits

This chapter has considered the recent changes occurring in consumer habits, aiming to highlight the link between them and the transition to a green economy. In the first part, after a brief introduction, the authors perform a review of the literature in the field, starting from the presentation of the concept of sustainable consumption. They start with the major changes in the social current economic environment and their impact on changes of the consumption patterns; they continue with the presentation of the changes of the consumption pattern in the European Union and the specific aspects of the current changes of the consumption patterns in Romania. Thus, the authors aim to identify the key features of the New European Consumer.

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Introducing Phenomenological Research Methodology in Sustainable Consumption Literature: Illustrations From India

International Journal of Qualitative Methods ◽

10.1177/1609406919840559 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 18 ◽

pp. 160940691984055

Author(s):

Soumyajit Bhar

Keyword(s):

Conceptual Understanding ◽

Research Methodology ◽

Consumer Goods ◽

Methodological Approach ◽

Sustainable Consumption ◽

Phenomenological Research ◽

Consumption Patterns ◽

Environmentally Sustainable ◽

Situated Identity ◽

Indian Cities

In this age of rising consumerism, it is evident that we need to move toward a more environmentally sustainable and socially just form of consumption patterns by surpassing the impasse currently faced by various sustainable consumption policies. Without any further delay, we need to embrace an apt methodological orientation to gain a better socioculturally situated conceptual understanding of consumers and a means to obtain empirical insights into drivers of socioenvironmentally impactful consumption patterns to be able to proceed toward efficacious sustainable consumption policies. This article proposes a phenomenological research methodology–based conceptual framing and a step-by-step methodological approach based on that framing to gain an in-depth understanding of how consumers being socioculturally situated identity projects–driven subjects embed consumer goods as integral parts of their life narratives and how that in turn acts as the drivers of their consumption. The elaborated steps of interpreting collected consumer narratives are presented with examples from an empirical research conducted in a few Indian cities. Critical reflections on diverse issues that may arise while employing this methodology in similar contexts like India are then discussed. The conclusion highlights how this understanding of consumer could make a novel contribution to sustainable consumption literature.

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