Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on sustainable consumption

Recent findings on COVID-19 indicate that during a pandemic consumers focus on themselves and protection of their health and safety as an immediate major concern. However, there is little understanding of how the perceived threat of an infectious disease influences sustainable consumption behavior. Through a series of laboratory experiments on chocolate bar and laundry detergent choices, I found that the COVID-19 pandemic increased consumers' perceived threat, leading to a decrease in sustainable (vs. nonsustainable) products. Further, the results of a survey comprising 402 U.S. consumers show that perceived threat from the pandemic increased their self-centeredness, the effects of which were driven by a series of consequence-related negative emotions. My findings provide insights for firms promoting socially responsible products and citizens who consider sustainability a major long-term concern.

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The Consumer Role for Sustainable Development

Advances in Marketing, Customer Relationship Management, and E-Services - Anthropological Approaches to Understanding Consumption Patterns and Consumer Behavior ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-3115-0.ch018 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 325-341

Author(s):

Seda Yildirim

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Sustainable Development Goals ◽

Sustainable Consumption ◽

Consumption Behavior ◽

Responsible Consumption ◽

The World ◽

Development Goals ◽

Set Up ◽

The Relationship

The term sustainable consumption is not only a behavior type in marketing and a just consumption behavior, it is more than this. Sustainable or responsible consumption behavior can change the world. Sustainable consumption concept has been investigated widely in the literature and factors that effecting sustainable consumption or being a green consumer has been investigated recently, too. But the relationship between sustainable development and consumer behavior isn't investigated sufficiently. After 2030 Sustainable Development Goals set up, responsibilities and roles have been an important issue to achieve sustainable development in the long term. In this point, this study aims to investigate the consumer role for sustainable development goals through sustainable consumption patterns and trends.

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The Consumer Role for Sustainable Development

10.4018/978-1-6684-3885-5.ch047 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 872-888

Author(s):

Seda Yildirim

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Sustainable Development Goals ◽

Sustainable Consumption ◽

Consumption Behavior ◽

Responsible Consumption ◽

The World ◽

Development Goals ◽

Set Up ◽

The Relationship

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ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY INSTRUMENTS, SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION ATTITUDE AND SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR: THE MODERATING ROLE OF LONG-TERM ORIENTATION

10.15444/gmc2016.03.01.04 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Zhongju Liao ◽

Yang Sun

Keyword(s):

Environmental Policy ◽

Sustainable Consumption ◽

Policy Instruments ◽

Consumption Behavior ◽

Environmental Policy Instruments ◽

Moderating Role

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When Does Voice Have to be More Than Only Listening? Procedural Justice Effects as a Function of Confident Leadership

Journal of Personnel Psychology ◽

10.1027/1866-5888/a000011 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 69-78 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

David De Cremer ◽

Maarten Wubben

Keyword(s):

Procedural Justice ◽

Interaction Effect ◽

Laboratory Experiments ◽

Negative Emotions

The present research examined how voice procedures and leader confidence affect participants’ negative emotions and willingness to withdraw. It was predicted that receiving voice would be valued out of instrumental concerns, but only when the enacting leader was high in confidence. Two laboratory experiments indeed showed an interaction between type of voice (pre-decisional vs. post-decisional) and leader’s confidence (low vs. high) on participants’ negative emotions and willingness to withdraw. In particular, post-decision voice only led to more negative responses than did pre-decision voice when the enacting leader was high in confidence. Negative emotions mediated this interaction effect of type of voice on willingness to withdraw. Implications for integrating the leadership and procedural justice literatures are discussed.

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A Study on the Trend of Domestic Waste Generation and the Recognition of Recycling Priorities in Korea

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13041732 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 1732

Author(s):

Seok-ho Jung ◽

Mee-hye Lee ◽

Seong-ho Lee ◽

Ji Whan Ahn

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Consumption ◽

Waste Recycling ◽

Household Waste ◽

Waste Generation ◽

Analytic Hierarchy ◽

Sustainable Consumption And Production ◽

Survey Results ◽

Scrap Metals ◽

Hierarchy Process

In September 2015, the United Nations included ‘sustainable consumption and production’ as part of its 12th goal of sustainable development. The EU announced its Circular Economic Package in December 2015 to move from the existing linear economic structure to the net environmental system. Recycling of household waste has become more significant as a circular economic policy has been implemented to reflow waste into the economy through recycling worldwide. In this study, Korea’s household waste generation for 20 years from 1998 to 2017 was analyzed through statistical techniques. Waste generation tended to increase in the order of plastics and cans, and papers tended to decrease. The amount of bottle wastes has been on the decline after increasing. A questionnaire survey on recycling priority was conducted on 261 people, including participants in the EARTH-2019 recycling experience hall, using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) technique. According to the survey, the recycling priorities of six types of household waste are (first) plastic, (second) cans, viny, scrap metals, (third) paper, and (fourth) bottles. Statistical analysis of mid- to long-term household waste generation and AHP-based household waste recycling priority survey results can be used as basic data, such as environmental analysis in Korea’s recycling-related policies and research.

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Unfolding the case of returnees: How the European Union and its member States are addressing the return of foreign fighters and their families

International Review of the Red Cross ◽

10.1017/s1816383121000217 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-23

Author(s):

Carlota Rigotti ◽

Júlia Zomignani Barboza

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

Perceived Threat ◽

The European Union ◽

Security Threat ◽

Short Term ◽

Member States ◽

Foreign Fighters ◽

Term Response

Abstract The return of foreign fighters and their families to the European Union has mostly been considered a security threat by member States, which consequently adopt repressive measures aimed at providing an immediate, short-term response to this perceived threat. In addition to this strong-arm approach, reintegration strategies have also been used to prevent returnees from falling back into terrorism and to break down barriers of hostility between citizens in the long term. Amidst these different strategies, this paper seeks to identify which methods are most desirable for handling returnees.

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Social Tipping Interventions Can Promote the Diffusion or Decay of Sustainable Consumption Norms in the Field. Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Intervention Study

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13063529 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (6) ◽

pp. 3529

Author(s):

Joël Berger

Keyword(s):

Laboratory Experiments ◽

Sustainable Consumption ◽

Environmentally Sustainable ◽

Carbon Neutrality ◽

Consumption Decisions ◽

Policy Tool ◽

Field Evidence ◽

Current Prevalence ◽

Quasi Experimental ◽

Recent Laboratory

The diffusion of environmentally sustainable consumption patterns is crucial for reaching net carbon neutrality. As a promising policy tool for reaching this goal, scholars have put forward social tipping interventions (SOTIs). “Social tipping” refers to the phenomenon that a small initial change in a parameter of a social system can create abrupt, nonlinear change via self-reinforcing feedback. If this reduces the burden on the environment, it is of potential interest for environmental policy. SOTIs are attempts to create social tipping intentionally. SOTIs produce rapid norm changes in laboratory experiments. However, little is known about the potential of SOTIs in the field. This research reports on a field intervention promoting the consumption of hot beverages in reusable mugs instead of one-way cups, conducted at Swiss university cafeterias (N = 162,523 consumption decisions). Two SOTIs involved an appeal promoting sustainable consumption with regular feedback about the current prevalence of sustainable consumption. Two control treatments involved either the same appeal without feedback or no intervention. This research offers three key findings. First, SOTIs involving regular normative feedback can transform sustainable consumption from a minority behavior into a social norm within weeks. Second, tipping points in real-world environmental dilemmas may exceed the values found in recent laboratory experiments (≥50% vs. ≥25%). Third, SOTIs can also promote the decay of sustainable consumption. By implication, the risk-free use of SOTIs requires deeper insights into the boundary conditions of these dynamics.

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The Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Religious Exercise: Preliminary Remarks

Laws ◽

10.3390/laws10020044 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 44

Author(s):

Adelaide Madera

Keyword(s):

Global Health ◽

Health And Safety ◽

Fundamental Rights ◽

Special Issue ◽

Health Crisis ◽

Personal Lives ◽

Regulatory Frameworks ◽

Starting Point ◽

Legal Contexts

Since 2020, the spread of COVID-19 has had an overwhelming impact not only on our personal lives, but also on domestic regulatory frameworks. Influential academics have strongly underlined that, in times of deep crisis, such as the current global health crisis, the long-term workability of legal systems is put to a severe test. In this period, in fact, the protection of health has been given priority, as a precondition that is orientating many current legal choices. Such an unprecedented health emergency has also raised a serious challenge in terms of fundamental rights and liberties. Several basic rights that normally enjoy robust protection under constitutional, supranational, and international guarantees, have experienced a devastating “suspension” for the sake of public health and safety, thus giving rise to a vigorous debate concerning whether and to what extent the pandemic emergency justifies limitations on fundamental rights. The present paper introduces the Special Issue on “The crisis of the religious freedom during the age of COVID-19 pandemic”. Taking as a starting point the valuable contributions of the participants in the Special Issue, it explores analogous and distinctive implications of the COVID-19 pandemic in different legal contexts and underlines the relevance of cooperation between religious and public actors to face a global health crisis.

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Expansion of Policy Domain of Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP): Challenges and Opportunities for Policy Design

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13126763 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (12) ◽

pp. 6763

Author(s):

Yasuhiko Hotta ◽

Tomohiro Tasaki ◽

Ryu Koide

Keyword(s):

Policy Design ◽

Sustainable Consumption ◽

Pollution Prevention ◽

Ecological Modernization ◽

Policy Debate ◽

Policy Domain ◽

Challenges And Opportunities ◽

Sustainable Consumption And Production ◽

Transition Policy

Since 2015, the international policy community has started to agree on international agreements with ambitious middle-term and long-term goals, highly relevant to sustainable consumption and production (SCP) such as those seen in the Paris Agreement, SDGs, and the plastic-related agreements at the G7 and G20 processes. Along with this trend, there has been growing attention given to socio-technical system change or “transition”. Policy debate is putting more focus on the need to change consumption and production patterns and deal with various ecological consequences within planetary boundaries such as decarbonization, absolute reduction in material throughput, or creation of a plastic-free society. This paper examines the expansion of the policy domain of SCP in three phases; SCP focusing on pollution control and cleaner production (SCP 1.0), SCP from the perspective of product lifecycle (SCP 2.0), and SCP focusing on systematic changes in socio-technical systems driving consumption and production (SCP 3.0). The potential impact of a wider SCP policy domain can be comparable to the historical shift in discourse related to ecological modernization theory from pollution prevention to efficiency. This emerging trend corresponds to the need for a fresh approach to policy design which can facilitate transition to sustainability.

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