scholarly journals Do Tourism Activities and Urbanization Drive Material Consumption in the OECD Countries? A Quantile Regression Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 7742
Author(s):  
Taiwo Temitope Lasisi ◽  
Kayode Kolawole Eluwole ◽  
Uju Violet Alola ◽  
Luigi Aldieri ◽  
Concetto Paolo Vinci ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Oecd Countries ◽  
Real Income ◽  
Income Growth ◽  
Material Consumption ◽  
Domestic Consumption ◽  
Sustainable Consumption And Production ◽  
Global Goal ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Two Parameters

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) elaborately encompass a global goal for sustainable consumption and production (Goal 12: SDGs), thus providing potential drivers and/or pathways to attaining sustainable consumption. In view of this global goal, this study examined the role of real income per capita, urbanization and especially inbound tourism in domestic material consumption for the panel of OECD countries. The study is conducted for the period of 1995 to 2016 by employing the panel quantile approach. Interestingly, an inverted U-shaped relationship between outbound tourism and domestic material consumption is established across the quantiles, thus indicating that sustainable domestic consumption is achievable after a threshold of domestic material consumption is attained. In addition, achieving sustainable consumption through economic or income growth is a herculean task for the OECD countries because the current reality indicates that income growth triggers higher consumption of domestic materials. However, the results suggest that urbanization is a recipe for sustainable domestic consumption since there is a negative and significant relationship between the two parameters across the quantiles. Nevertheless, the study presents relevant policy for efficient material and resources utilization and that is suitable to drive the SDGs for 2030 and other country-specific sustainable ambitions.

Marketing Scholarship and the Sustainable Development Goals: Thoughts on Moving Forward

2021 ◽  
pp. 183933492110526
Author(s):  
Al Rosenbloom
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Boundary Spanning ◽  
Institutional Barriers ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Original Boundary ◽  
Sustainable Consumption And Production ◽  
Development Goals

This article is a commentary on how marketing scholarship can be more relevant as it tackles the human development challenges presented by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The commentary argues that as businesses are transforming themselves into purpose-driven organizations, marketing needs to be a part of that transformation. SDG 1 No Poverty and SDG 12 Sustainable Consumption and Production are discussed within the article. The commentary also tackles the institutional barriers that work against path-breaking SDG marketing scholarship: normative promotion and publication expectations along with the practitioner-academic research divide. Without realigning the incentives that reward original, boundary-spanning SDG marketing scholarship, the marketing discipline will be stuck in a cycle of rewarding one behavior while hoping for another.

scholarly journals Assessing the land resource–food price nexus of the Sustainable Development Goals

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (9) ◽  
pp. e1501499 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Obersteiner ◽  
Brian Walsh ◽  
Stefan Frank ◽  
Petr Havlík ◽  
Matthew Cantele ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Food Prices ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Land Resource ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Sustainable Consumption And Production ◽  
Development Goals

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) call for a comprehensive new approach to development rooted in planetary boundaries, equity, and inclusivity. The wide scope of the SDGs will necessitate unprecedented integration of siloed policy portfolios to work at international, regional, and national levels toward multiple goals and mitigate the conflicts that arise from competing resource demands. In this analysis, we adopt a comprehensive modeling approach to understand how coherent policy combinations can manage trade-offs among environmental conservation initiatives and food prices. Our scenario results indicate that SDG strategies constructed around Sustainable Consumption and Production policies can minimize problem-shifting, which has long placed global development and conservation agendas at odds. We conclude that Sustainable Consumption and Production policies (goal 12) are most effective at minimizing trade-offs and argue for their centrality to the formulation of coherent SDG strategies. We also find that alternative socioeconomic futures—mainly, population and economic growth pathways—generate smaller impacts on the eventual achievement of land resource–related SDGs than do resource-use and management policies. We expect that this and future systems analyses will allow policy-makers to negotiate trade-offs and exploit synergies as they assemble sustainable development strategies equal in scope to the ambition of the SDGs.

scholarly journals Sustainable Consumption: Scope and Applicability of Principles of International Law

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-27
Author(s):  
Ipshita CHATURVEDI
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
International Law ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Resource Exploitation ◽  
International Environmental Law ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Responsible Consumption ◽  
Sustainable Consumption And Production ◽  
Development Goals

Abstract The role of sustainable development has been increasingly recognized in international environmental law as a way to reconcile poverty eradication and resource exploitation with environmental protection. By contrast, little attention has been given to the concept of sustainable consumption. When international law mentions sustainable consumption, consumption and production are generally considered together, for instance in Goal 12 of the Sustainable Development Goals, addressing responsible consumption and production, and in UNEP’s 10-year sustainable ‘consumption and production programme.’ While some research on sustainable consumption has been conducted in sociology and anthropology, the focus in international environmental law has remained on production rather than consumption. This article seeks to open up a discussion on how consumption should be viewed and defined legally, and the role that law could play in promoting sustainable consumption.

Towards economic sustainability: how higher education can support the business operations of emerging clothing manufacturing micro enterprises

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariette Strydom ◽  
Elizabeth Kempen
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Economic Sustainability ◽  
Related Field ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Business Operations ◽  
Sustainable Consumption And Production ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Micro Enterprises

Purpose This paper aims to investigate the business operations of informal clothing manufacturing micro enterprises (CMMEs) and identifies ways to support owners to achieve economic sustainability. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative approach applying a case study design was used to study the business operations of 13 informal CMME owners at a business incubation hub (IH). Findings The study found that emerging CMME owners need ongoing generic business and fashion-related field-specific support particular to their business. Such support can be offered through the collaboration between higher education (HE) institutions and business IHs. Social implications Starting a clothing manufacturing business offers women in Africa the opportunity to improve both their personal and community well-being contributing to three sustainable development goals, namely, to end poverty, gender equality and empowering women, as well as sustainable consumption and production patterns. Partnering with existing business IHs, HE can influence skills-specific training that may contribute to the economic sustainability of emerging entrepreneurs and reduce poverty. Originality/value The study proposes in-house apparel apprenticeships to ensure the economic sustainability of the CMME, contributing to apparel entrepreneurship literature and fashion-based entrepreneurship education.

No wheels, no driver, can't travel. The EU sustainable consumption and production action plan, a framework of policies towards eco-design of products for material efficiency?

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-318
Author(s):  
Melissa Shinn
Keyword(s):  
Action Plan ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Material Consumption ◽  
Policy Action ◽  
Material Efficiency ◽  
Production Policy ◽  
Sustainable Consumption And Production ◽  
Industry Policy ◽  
The Eu

AbstractThe EU has a clear need to reduce its resource and material consumption to stay within biological and equitable limits. The EU Sustainable Consumption and Production and Sustainable Industry Policy Action Plan (SCP/SIP AP) published in 2008 is the new platform for development of policies on product eco-design and consumption. This article investigates the policies that could or do constitute drivers for product eco-design for material efficiency through various possible existing or foreseen policies. The scope includes the initiatives of the SCP/SIP AP itself and the various strategies and pieces of legislation that could be seen as part of the SCP legislative tool box, including the resources strategy, products and waste legislation. The underlying question is whether there is a comprehensive and effective sustainable consumption and production policy within the EU, and how far it goes.

scholarly journals Development of Online Needs-Based Workshop Support System in a Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hidenori Murata ◽  
Seisuke Horio ◽  
Hideki Kobayashi
Keyword(s):  
Support System ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Region Culture ◽  
Sustainable Consumption And Production ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Comparison Of The Results

The sustainable development goals, adopted in 2015, include achievement of sustainable consumption and production (SCP) patterns as the 12th goal. To achieve SCP patterns, it is necessary not only to reduce environmental load caused by production and manufacturing but also to improve the sufficiency of fundamental human needs and the quality of life of consumers. The living-sphere approach aims to design products for a target living sphere by determining the sufficiency of fundamental human needs among local residents through products using the fundamental human needs framework proposed by Max-Neef. This framework consists of fundamental human needs and satisfiers. Max-Neef argued that fundamental human needs are universal, but satisfiers fulfilling these fundamental human needs depend on region, culture and time. The satisfiers have previously been extracted by needs-based participatory workshops, but during the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, these in-person workshops can no longer be held. In this study, we developed an online needs-based workshop (NBW) support system to replace the in-person NBW. The developed system consists of digital applications such as an online whiteboard service, video meeting service and original software to support facilitation. We applied the developed system to online NBWs held in Japan to verify the developed system and to validate whether the online NBW can replace the in-person NBW. The results verified that the developed system was working as designed. Comparison of the results between online and in-person sessions validated that replacing the in-person NBW with an online NBW using the developed system was highly possible.

scholarly journals Meat supply chain in the perspective of UN SDGs

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 242-247
Author(s):  
I. V. Djekic
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Clean Water ◽  
Climate Action ◽  
Sustainable Consumption And Production ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Livestock Farmers

This paper presents an overview of the meat supply chain in the perspective of main UN sustainable development goals (SDGs). To perform this overview, meat supply chain was presented with five main stakeholders (livestock farmers, slaughterhouses, meat processors, retailers and consumers). As this chain is specific, four SDGs have been revealed as most important, as follows: SDG6 — Clean water and sanitation; SDG7 — Affordable and clean energy; SDG12 — Sustainable consumption and production; SDG13 — Climate action. Discussion and literature review was performed for each of the four UN SDGs. In addition, other UN SDGs of interest for this supply chain have been briefly presented.

scholarly journals ICT as “Knowledge Management” for Assessing Sustainable Consumption and Production in Supply Chains

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 164-198
Author(s):  
Surbhi Uniyal ◽  
Sachin Kumar Mangla ◽  
Pappu R. S. Sarma ◽  
Ming-Lang Tseng ◽  
Pravin Patil
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Rank Correlation ◽  
Spearman’S Rank Correlation ◽  
Spearman’S Rank Correlation Coefficient ◽  
Responsible Consumption ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Sustainable Consumption And Production ◽  
Development Goals

The significance of sustainability is continually expanding among researchers, policymakers, and decision makers. To improve the efficiency of value chain activities such as manufacturing, distribution, and consumption, an innovative research solution has been proposed: ‘Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) through Information and Communication Technology (ICT)'. Sustainability through ICT is significant for the industry in terms of its sustainable effects on production processes, environment, and community. This research seeks to gauge ICT—as knowledge management—for industries in the successful adoption and execution of SCP. In so doing, potential key ICT-based factors to SCP are identified from the literature and experts' feedback. The present work suggests a decision framework for assessing the interrelationships among and between the ICT oriented factors by utilizing graph theory and matrix approach. Data for this work derives from three automotive companies operating in India. From findings, ‘Governance and Management', is the topmost factor for the adoption of sustainable consumption and production in value chains. The relationship among the index values is further evaluated using Spearman's rank correlation coefficient. This research can facilitate practitioners, government agencies, and customers for a better understanding of ICT-driven factors in managing resources, reducing waste, and improving cost, which would further help in meeting sustainable development goals of the United Nations of responsible consumption and production and innovation, industry, and infrastructure.

scholarly journals How “Green Knowledge” Influences Sustainability through Behavior Change: Theory and Policy Implications

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (16) ◽  
pp. 6448
Author(s):  
Yongsheng Zhang ◽  
Ilan Chabay
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Environmental Consequences ◽  
Behavior Change Theory ◽  
Making Choices ◽  
Patterns Of Behavior ◽  
Sustainable Consumption And Production ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Equilibrium Economic

The urgent and critical challenges of transforming patterns of behavior from current unsustainable ones are encapsulated in the 2015 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Central to these goals and targets are systems of sustainable consumption and production. This crucial goal depends on consumers and producers making choices that depend on knowledge available to them and on other factors influencing their preferences in accordance with norms and culture. This paper investigates how “green knowledge” (i.e., knowledge of ecologically and socially sound products and practices) influences sustainability in the intersections of knowledge, preferences, behavior, and economic and environmental performance. By employing a general equilibrium economic model, we show that consumers, producers, and industry regulators with different degrees of knowledge and concern about the health and environmental benefits of products and production would lead to different economic and environmental consequences. As “green knowledge” influences consumption patterns and government policy-making, our model shows that, in principle, there will be a shift in the content of the economy to that which supports the achievement of long-term sustainability.

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