scholarly journals Impact of Environmental Issues on Consumer Senses Leading to Ecofriendly Buying Decisions

Inducing Sustainable consumption in individuals is one of the important challenges in the path to Sustainability. Buying decision can be influenced by Consumer Perception. Sensory Marketing practices are effective tools for influencing Consumer Perception. This paper introduces sensory marketing as a new replica in the field of Sustainable Consumption. Senses stimulate cognitive thinking which is the need of the hour for global environmental change. Sensory marketing may be a new tool in the field of solving Environmental issues, as it influence buying decisions of consumer and also encourage consumer to pay more through perception. This study tries to analyse the impact of environmental Issues on consumer senses which influences to Eco friendly buying decisions..

2005 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 6-13
Author(s):  
Peter Dauvergne

More than six million people die of cancer every year. Over the next two decades, the World Health Organization predicts global cancer rates will rise to 10 million deaths annually. What is the impact of the global political and economic processes of environmental change on cancer rates? Why, given the strong intuitive reasons to worry about the carcinogenic effects of global environmental change, is there so little research on this topic? What is the political role of science, corporations, nongovernmental organizations and international institutions on cancer research and cancer rates? What is the impact of global patterns of trade, financing, production and consumption on research and rates? This article charts the current social science literature on cancer and global environmental change with the hope of encouraging scholars of global environmental politics to pursue a new research agenda around questions like these.


2004 ◽  
Vol 82 (8) ◽  
pp. 1133-1139 ◽  
Author(s):  
A H Fitter ◽  
A Heinemeyer ◽  
R Husband ◽  
E Olsen ◽  
K P Ridgway ◽  
...  

Our ability to make predictions about the impact of global environmental change on arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi and on their role in regulating biotic response to such change is seriously hampered by our lack of knowledge of the basic biology of these ubiquitous organisms. Current information suggests that responses to elevated atmospheric CO2 will be largely controlled by host-plant responses, but that AM fungi will respond directly to elevated soil temperature. Field studies, however, suggest that changes in vegetation in response to environmental change may play the largest role in determining the structure of the AM fungal community. Nevertheless, the direct response of AM fungi to temperature may have large implications for rates of C cycling. New evidence shows that AM fungal hyphae may be very short lived, potentially acting as a rapid route by which C may cycle back to the atmospohere; we need, therefore, to measure the impact of soil temperature on hyphal turnover. There is also an urgent need to discover the extent to which AM fungal species are differentially adapted to abiotic environmental factors, as they apparently are to plant hosts. If they do show such an adaptation, and if the number of species is much greater than the number currently described (150), as seems almost certain, then there is the potential for several new fields of study, including community ecology and biogeography of AM fungi, and these will give us new insights into the impacts of global environmental change on AM fungi in moderating the impacts of global environmental change on ecosystems.Key words: arbuscular mycorrhiza, temperature, diversity, community structure, ecosystem, carbon cycle.


jpa ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen L. Rawlins

Author(s):  
Machiel Lamers ◽  
Jeroen Nawijn ◽  
Eke Eijgelaar

Over the last decades a substantial and growing societal and academic interest has emerged for the development of sustainable tourism. Scholars have highlighted the contribution of tourism to global environmental change and to local, detrimental social and environmental effects as well as to ways in which tourism contributes to nature conservation. Nevertheless the role of tourist consumers in driving sustainable tourism has remained unconvincing and inconsistent. This chapter reviews the constraints and opportunities of political consumerism for sustainable tourism. The discussion covers stronger pockets and a key weak pocket of political consumerism for sustainable tourism and also highlights inconsistencies in sustainable tourism consumption by drawing on a range of social theory arguments and possible solutions. The chapter concludes with an agenda for future research on this topic.


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