Building common cause towards sustainable consumption: A cross-generational perspective

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Generational Differences toward Organic Food Behavior: Insights from Five Generational Cohorts

“…Yet, other academic fields also encompass cross-generational differences, such as the travel and tourism industry [62][63][64][65]; the health, mental, cognition, or psychology sector examining related issues [66][67][68]; the service sector [69][70][71]; and studies in education [72,73]. Moreover, cross-generational differences were studied in retailing regarding products in the non-food sector [74][75][76][77], in technology adoption or purchase [78,79], as well as politics [80]. Finally, several academic papers were detected in the food and beverage sector (non-organic) and multigenerational differences [81][82][83].…”

Sustainable behaviour: evidence from Lithuania

“…The second block was devoted to disclosing of the manifestation of sustainable behaviour and the evaluation of these aspects in daily activities of employees: • Economically sustainable behaviour domain consists of 13 statements (sources: Blake-Beard et al, 2010;Horlings, 2015;De Medeiros et al, 2018;Kim & Park, 2017;Katsoulakos & Katsoulacos, 2007;Poškus, 2016;Bulut et al, 2017;Khan & Trivedi, 2015), that evaluate sustainable wealth creation, minimising wastage, cost savings and other economic issues. • Environmentally sustainable behaviour domain measures environmental integrity, protection of natural resources, recycling, composting, and energy-saving and consists of 17 statements (sources: Zink, 2014;Young et al, 2015;Sharma & Jha, 2017;Huba, 2006;Minton et al, 2012;Hanson, 2013;Poškus, 2016;Bulut et al, 2017;Diprose et al, 2019;Messely, 2014;Tapia-Fonllem et al, 2013;Abrams & Von Frank, 2014;Kułyk et al, 2017). • Social sustainable behaviour domain consists of eight statements (sources: Blake-Beard et al, 2010;De Medeiros et al, 2018;Spijkers, 2018;Kim & Park, 2017;Poškus, 2016;Diprose et al, 2019;Coughlin, 2018), that evaluate pro-ecological learning and persuasion, human health and safety, reusing of products and other community concerns.…”

“…• Environmentally sustainable behaviour domain measures environmental integrity, protection of natural resources, recycling, composting, and energy-saving and consists of 17 statements (sources: Zink, 2014;Young et al, 2015;Sharma & Jha, 2017;Huba, 2006;Minton et al, 2012;Hanson, 2013;Poškus, 2016;Bulut et al, 2017;Diprose et al, 2019;Messely, 2014;Tapia-Fonllem et al, 2013;Abrams & Von Frank, 2014;Kułyk et al, 2017). • Social sustainable behaviour domain consists of eight statements (sources: Blake-Beard et al, 2010;De Medeiros et al, 2018;Spijkers, 2018;Kim & Park, 2017;Poškus, 2016;Diprose et al, 2019;Coughlin, 2018), that evaluate pro-ecological learning and persuasion, human health and safety, reusing of products and other community concerns. Some items are assigned to two or three domains.…”

“…Knowledge, values, and behaviours seem to be at the centre stage in the question of how to achieve transformations towards sustainability (Alroe et al, 2017). Sustainable behaviour has become an expression that is commonly used and is oft en substituted with other popular and trendy expressions, such as pro-ecological, environmentally friendly, eco-friendly, green behaviour, sustainable consumption behaviour, sustainable living, and sustainable cohabitation (Young et al, 2015;Sharma & Jha, 2017;Huba, 2006;Minton et al, 2012;Poškus, 2016;Bulut et al, 2017;Kułyk et al, 2017;Diprose et al, 2019). Research on sustainable behaviour can be executed diff erently (Poškus, 2016).…”

“…But distinctive features of the generations likely provide some diff erences towards sustainability. Research of Diprose et al (2019) disclosed a predominant generational narrative of frugality versus excess, with younger generations oft en negatively stereotyped as increasingly consumer-driven and environmentally destructive. Data showed that younger generations are more environmentally conscious and more likely to think about the environmental aspects of sustainable consumption.…”