The Integration of Sustainable Consumption Education on Social Studies Learning to Increase Students’ Intention Toward Environmental Sustainability

Excessive consumption, deterioration of nature, and misusing the resources are problems of current humanity and future generations. Sustainability has started to become a priority for both practitioners and customers. In this respect, sustainable consumption and production practices stand out in almost all areas. Environmental sustainability concerns also affect food consumption habits. Sustainable agriculture and organic movement accelerated in recent times. In this context, the purpose of this study is to evaluate organic food in the framework of environmental sustainability by investigating literature and consumers' opinions. It is aimed to investigate organic food in terms of environmental sustainability with consumer perspective in this study. This study collected data through In-Depth interview method in line with this purpose. The results of the study signify that sustainable consumption and organic food purchase intention are interrelated. It's proposed that environmental sensitivity and environmental knowledge have positive roles, whereas scepticism has a negative role in organic food purchase intention.

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Sustainable Consumption and Production: An Analysis of Implementation of Pakistan’s Policy Framework of SDG-12

Liberal Arts and Social Sciences International Journal (LASSIJ) ◽

10.47264/idea.lassij/4.1.11 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 114-129

Author(s):

Noor Fatima ◽

Imran Ashraf ◽

Sania Zehraa

Keyword(s):

Natural Resources ◽

Environmental Sustainability ◽

Industrial Development ◽

Action Plan ◽

Sustainable Consumption ◽

Regulatory System ◽

Secondary Data ◽

Policy Framework ◽

Primary Data ◽

Sustainable Consumption And Production

The sustainable consumption and production is crucially relevant for Pakistan, given the massive degradation and depletion of natural resources due to the population explosion – and agricultural and industrial development pursued without regard for environmental sustainability. Freshwater availability has declined and quality of drinking water has deteriorated, leading to increase in water-borne diseases. The decaying water infrastructure results in a 40pc water loss in conveyance from dams to farms, for agricultural development. Industrial, agricultural, and household chemicals are freely imported and used without any regulatory system. Massive depletion of natural resources has meant the cutting of trees, resulting in increased timber imports. Pakistan National Action Plan (PNAP) was developed in May 2017 to achieve the sustainable goal particularly goal 12, which is about Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP). This paper focuses on the ingenious activity and strategy devised in the PNAP for the preparedness, implementation and monitoring of the SDG-12, as National Developmental Agenda of Pakistan. Utilizing library research methods, the major material used for this research is qualitatively collected by analyzing the contents of documents. For primary data, government documents have been consulted. Whereas the secondary data has been collected from books and articles available on the theme.

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KEARIFAN LINGKUNGAN DALAM BUDAYA MASYARAKAT SEBAGAI SUMBER PEMBELAJARAN PADA DIKLAT GURU IPS MADRASAH TSANAWIYAH

Tatar Pasundan : Jurnal Diklat Keagamaan ◽

10.38075/tp.v12i33.62 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (33) ◽

Author(s):

Yoyo Supriono

Keyword(s):

Social Studies ◽

Cultural Values ◽

Learning Outcomes ◽

Natural Environment ◽

Environmental Sustainability ◽

Formal Education ◽

Learning Resources ◽

Negative Effects ◽

Education Community

Inheritance of local cultural values through formal education is an effort to prevent the entry of negative effects of globalization. For this reason, it is necessary to study which local values are worthy of being used as learning resources and to examine the effect of these learning resources on improving the quality of learning outcomes. Environmental wisdom as one of the cultural values that thrives in society has been able to make the natural environment remain sustainable. Environmental sustainability is certainly not only the needs of the education community, but the needs of all humanity. For this reason, institutionalizing local values is a non-negotiable need. Thus, the value of local culture, especially environmental wisdom is very important to make social studies more meaningful. The important meaning of learning resources for environmental wisdom in social studies education is that it can increase students' interest and learning passion and teachers as educators no longer make books and themselves as the most important learning resources so that they can cover their weaknesses. Keywords: Environmental Wisdom as Learning Resources

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Agricultural water consumption and crop prices

10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-9627 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Benedetta Falsetti ◽

Elena Vallino ◽

Luca Ridolfi ◽

Francesco Laio

Keyword(s):

Water Consumption ◽

Environmental Sustainability ◽

Water Footprint ◽

Sustainable Consumption ◽

Economic Value ◽

Global Market ◽

Pricing Policy ◽

Stress Indicator ◽

Country Level ◽

Cultivation Process

Most human activities depend on water. Agriculture alone consumes 70% of all freshwater withdrawals worldwide. &#160;In cases when such withdrawal overcome sustainability levels, water scarcity represents a growing threat to food security. In this framework, there has been an enduring debate on the opportunity of assigning an economic value to water. Some studies argue that water resources would be more efficiently allocated if they had a price that reflects their scarcity and that a pricing policy would also provide incentives for more sustainable consumption. Building on these considerations, in this work we investigate whether the water consumption in agricultural production is reflected in crop prices.&#160;In this research, we focus specifically on the production of agricultural primary goods to understand whether water consumption is taken into consideration in the prices associated with these products on the global market. We consider the water component also in terms of water availability per capita at the country level (Falkenmark Water Stress Indicator). Aware of the fact that water and land are usually regarded as a single entity, we analyze if the water, isolated from this relation, still has an impact.We select twelve representative crops analyzing their farm gate prices from 1991 to 2016, collecting data regarding 162 countries in total. We identify two different behaviors: staple crops (e.g. wheat, maize, soybeans, and potatoes) tend to incorporate in their prices the amount of water employed during the cultivation process. Differently, cash crops (e.g. coffee, cocoa beans, tea, vanilla), which are not crucial in human diets and mainly produced for exportation purposes, show a weaker relationship between water footprint and prices on the global market. These variations may be ascribable to specific market dynamics related to the two product groups. While there could be different elements influencing the behavior of these two macro-categories of crops, it is important to understand how water is related to crop prices to purse more efficient practices in water allocation and governance management, improving environmental sustainability in this field.

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Sharing, households and sustainable consumption

Journal of Consumer Culture ◽

10.1177/1469540516668229 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 18 (3) ◽

pp. 433-452 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Luke Yates

Keyword(s):

Survey Data ◽

Environmental Sustainability ◽

Economies Of Scale ◽

Sustainable Consumption ◽

Domestic Sphere ◽

Domestic Consumption ◽

Domestic Activity ◽

Standard Material ◽

Goods And Services ◽

Market State

Recently, economists and environmental scientists have problematised households, showing that their reducing size in average number of inhabitants has implications for environmental sustainability due to losses in economies of scale. Findings suggest that resources are shared better when people live together. This article analyses this common domestic consumption, drawing on literature about households, sharing and sustainable consumption. It is argued that multiple-person households apportion the resources involved in supplying practices through three modes of sharing: successive sharing, simultaneous sharing and shared/divided work. These are underpinned and enabled by standard material arrangements of households, in which a minimum of certain goods and services are available to residents regardless of number. Exemplifying the perspective, I examine recent survey data relating to meals and domestic laundry, two sociologically significant and resource-intensive spheres of domestic activity, paying attention to differences across one-person and multiple-person households. Modes of sharing, it is argued, also surfeit the domestic sphere, with market, state and household infrastructures playing contextually variable roles in provisioning goods and services among populations.

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Food: Not Only Safety, but Also Sustainability. The Emerging Trend of New Social Consumers

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su132312967 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (23) ◽

pp. 12967

Author(s):

Gennaro Civero ◽

Vincenzo Rusciano ◽

Debora Scarpato ◽

Mariarosaria Simeone

Keyword(s):

Food Safety ◽

Environmental Sustainability ◽

Sustainable Consumption ◽

Food Labels ◽

Sources Of Information ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Environmental Attributes ◽

Cluster Partition ◽

Safety Attributes ◽

Safety Knowledge

Consumers’ purchasing choices are no longer based only on economic factors but also on ethical reasons related to environmental sustainability and food safety. However, nutritional information on food labels is underused by consumers. Often the lack or incompleteness of information available on the market obstructs the complex transition towards sustainable consumption patterns. This empirical study analysed a sample of 359 consumers from an area in Southern Italy (city of Naples) to identify homogeneous consumer clusters with respect to the assessment of the level of consumer attention to sustainable environmental, social behaviours in daily life, and also to safety attributes. The most important sources of information influencing the consumers’ choices, food safety knowledge, and future purchasing behaviour were analysed. The research sample was self-selected, and the questionnaire for the survey was administrated through a non-probability sample from a reasoned choice. The results indicate that the ideal solution is a five-cluster partition that confirms a good level of attention to intrinsic attributes, in particular food expiry, transparency of food information, food traceability, and seller confidence. In addition, the research could provide an opportunity to consider collaborative actions between policy makers and industries to increase consumer awareness of environmental attributes.

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Mapping evidence of individuals’ sustainable consumption behaviour and energy or transport use in Africa: A scoping review

International Journal of Research in Business and Social Science (2147-4478) ◽

10.20525/ijrbs.v10i6.1368 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (6) ◽

pp. 369-382

Author(s):

Peter Ansu Mensah ◽

Monica Ansu Mensah

Keyword(s):

Energy Consumption ◽

Scoping Review ◽

Environmental Sustainability ◽

Energy Use ◽

Data Extraction ◽

Sustainable Energy ◽

Sustainable Consumption ◽

Inclusion Criteria ◽

African Countries ◽

Consumption Behaviour

The study aims to systematically map and describe the evidence on individual’s sustainable consumption behaviour and energy and transport use in Africa. The paper employed Arskey and O’Malley’s’ framework of 2005 as a guide to conduct a scoping review. Using keywords separated by Boolean terms (AND/OR) with all limiters removed, relevant published studies in Science Direct, SCOPUS, and Google Scholar were searched. Full-text screening guided by the inclusion criteria was independently conducted and data extraction was done using a piloted form to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the data. The results revealed that out of 176 studies, six met this study’s inclusion criteria and were included for data extraction. Among the six included studies, two were multi-country studies involving African countries, and study each was conducted in Ghana, Mauritius, South Africa, and Egypt. Of the included studies, five were on sustainable energy consumption domain, one on energy use and recycling behaviour, and the factors influencing sustainable energy consumption; price, income, urbanization, intention, attitudes, subjective norms and personal values. However, we found no evidence on individual’s sustainable consumption behaviour and transport use. Concluding, the results suggest that limited studies on sustainable consumption behaviour of energy and transport use are found in Africa. Therefore, further studies are needed to protect the gains made so far on environmental sustainability as well as to encourage and improve the individual’s sustainable consumption practices.

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Green product deletion decisions

Industrial Management & Data Systems ◽

10.1108/imds-05-2017-0175 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 118 (2) ◽

pp. 349-389 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Chunguang Bai ◽

Purvi Shah ◽

Qingyun Zhu ◽

Joseph Sarkis

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Supply Chain ◽

Environmental Sustainability ◽

Rough Set Theory ◽

Sustainable Consumption ◽

Fuzzy Cluster ◽

Green Product ◽

Production Environment ◽

Content Type ◽

Sustainable Consumption And Production

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify how organizations can evaluate the green product deletion decision within an environmentally sustainable consumption and production environment through a hybrid multistage multiple criteria evaluation approach. Design/methodology/approach This paper proposes a decision-making model by integrating “soft computation” using neighborhood rough set theory, fuzzy cluster means, and cumulative prospect theory. Literature is used to identify various factors for the decision environment. An illustrative problem provides insights into the methodology and application. Findings The results indicate that green products can be evaluated from both their relative environmental burdens and benefits. Sustainable consumption and production factors that play a role in this multifactor decision are identified. The results show that a comprehensive evaluation can capture an effective overall picture on which green product(s) to delete. Research limitations/implications The opaqueness of the proposed methodology may cause less acceptance by management. The methodology made a number of assumptions related to the data. An actual application of the tool rather than just an illustrative example is needed. Originality/value The main contribution of this study is the novel integration of supply chain perspectives, both upstream (supply and production) and downstream (demand/usage), with green product deletion decision making. The hybrid multistage technique has advantages of being able to incorporate many factors that have a variety of quantitative and qualitative characteristics to help managers address green product deletion issues as well as its impact on greening of supply chains and organizational environmental sustainability. This paper adds value to product deletion, supply chain management, and sustainable production and consumption literatures.

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Governing Sustainable Subjects: Environmentality in Polity, Economy and Civil Society

10.26686/wgtn.16985335.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

◽

Morgan J. Hamlin

Keyword(s):

Civil Society ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Environmental Sustainability ◽

Self Regulation ◽

Sustainable Consumption ◽

Consumer Products ◽

Diverse Range ◽

Broad Concept ◽

Governance Practices ◽

Consumption Practices

“Sustainability” is a broad concept that is used to guide a diverse range of government policies, corporate governance practices, and environmental movements; promote ethical and ‘green’ consumer products; and to transform existing production and consumption practices, to name but a few. While these various manifestations of sustainability differ from one another, they appear to be linked by a shared narrative. In this thesis, I utilise Norman Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis to investigate if and why sustainability discourses share a common narrative. I focus on the relationship between the management of the population and the supposed boundaries between the state, market, and civil society by exploring the emergence of the terms “environmental sustainability” and “sustainable consumption” within the practices and narratives of governance and self-regulation. By combining Slavoj Zizek’s notion of ideology with Timothy W. Luke’s concept of environmentality, and Michel Foucault’s conceptions of governmentality and power, I argue that the governmentalisation of sustainability is the common thread that runs through the three narratives that I analyse. More specifically, I argue that quotidian sustainability narratives have the effect of regulating human conduct through largely apolitical and technical understandings of environmental problems, disciplinary practices, and practices of the self that appear to remove risk from the act of consumption and everyday life.

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Seasonality and dietary requirements: will eating seasonal food contribute to health and environmental sustainability?

Proceedings of The Nutrition Society ◽

10.1017/s0029665113003753 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 73 (3) ◽

pp. 368-375 ◽

Cited By ~ 32

Author(s):

Jennie I. Macdiarmid

Keyword(s):

Environmental Sustainability ◽

Food Environment ◽

Sustainable Consumption ◽

Meat Consumption ◽

Environmental Cost ◽

Societal Impact ◽

Natural Production ◽

Dietary Behaviours ◽

Sustainable Diet ◽

Dietary Requirements

Eating more seasonal food is one proposal for moving towards more sustainable consumption patterns, based on the assumption that it could reduce the environmental impact of the diet. The aim of the present paper is to consider the implications of eating seasonal food on the different elements of sustainability (i.e. health, economics, society), not just the environment. Seasonality can be defined as either globally seasonal (i.e. produced in the natural production season but consumed anywhere in the world) or locally seasonal (i.e. produced in the natural production season and consumed within the same climatic zone). The environmental, health, economic and societal impact varies by the definition used. Global seasonality has the nutritional benefit of providing a more varied and consistent supply of fresh produce year round, but this increases demand for foods that in turn can have a high environmental cost in the country of production (e.g. water stress, land use change with loss of biodiversity). Greenhouse gas emissions of globally seasonal food are not necessarily higher than food produced locally as it depends more on the production system used than transportation. Eating more seasonal food, however, is only one element of a sustainable diet and should not overshadow some of the potentially more difficult dietary behaviours to change that could have greater environmental and health benefits (e.g. reducing overconsumption or meat consumption). For future guidelines for sustainable diets to be realistic they will need to take into account modern lifestyles, cultural and social expectations in the current food environment.

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