Chinese consumers’ willingness to pay for green- and eco-labeled seafood

Xu, Pei; Zeng, Yanbing; Fong, Quentin; Lone, Todd; Liu, Yuanyuan

doi:10.1016/j.foodcont.2012.04.008

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“…In terms of consumption, education is found to be associated with food choices that are less damaging to the environment. Consumers with higher level of education are more likely to be willing to pay for eco-labelled seafood in China (Xu et al, 2012), purchase eco-labelled and organic food products (Blend and van Ravenswaay, 1999;Lockie et al, 2004;Ngobo, 2011) and eat less meat (De Backer and Hudders, 2015;Graça et al, 2015). Likewise, highly educated individuals are also more likely to purchase eco-labelled, higher efficiency electrical appliances (Flamm, 2009;Ma et al, 2013;Wijaya and Tezuka, 2013) and adoption of fuel-efficient or alternative fuel vehicles (Mannberg et al, 2014;Potoglou and Kanaroglou, 2007).…”

Section: Education and Environmental Behaviourmentioning

confidence: 99%

Green Returns to Education: Does Schooling Contribute to Pro-Environmental Behaviours? Evidence from Thailand

Chankrajang

Muttarak

2017

Ecological Economics

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We investigate whether there are green returns to education, where formal education encourages pro-environmental behaviours using nationally representative surveys on environmental issues in Thailand. To establish the causal relationship between education and green behaviours, we exploit the instrumental variables strategy using the supply of state primary schooling i.e. the corresponding number of teachers per 1000 children, which varies over time and across regions as the instrument, while controlling for regional, cohort and income effects. We find that more years of schooling lead to a greater probability of taking knowledge-based environmentallyfriendly actions a great deal, but not cost-saving pro-environmental actions. In addition, the paper finds no significant impact of formal education on concern about global warming nor the willingness to pay for environmental tax.

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Section: Education and Environmental Behaviourmentioning

confidence: 99%

Green Returns to Education: Does Schooling Contribute to Pro-Environmental Behaviours? Evidence from Thailand

Chankrajang

Muttarak

2017

Ecological Economics

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“…The significance of ecolabels in particular markets is dynamic, with ecolabels for canned tuna becoming important in new markets where previously they have not been [102]. Studies in China and Japan have found when people were given information about overfishing before undertaking willingness-to-pay surveys, they showed more positive responses to ecolabels than people who were not given this information [103,104]. Spreading the message that seafood consumption patterns are part of the problem of overfishing is a precondition for the sustainable seafood movement to take root in new markets.…”

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The Sustainable Seafood Movement Is a Governance Concert, with the Audience Playing a Key Role

Barclay

Miller

2018

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Private standards, including ecolabels, have been posed as a governance solution for the global fisheries crisis. The conventional logic is that ecolabels meet consumer demand for certified "sustainable" seafood, with "good" players rewarded with price premiums or market share and "bad" players punished by reduced sales. Empirically, however, in the markets where ecolabeling has taken hold, retailers and brands-rather than consumers-are demanding sustainable sourcing, to build and protect their reputation. The aim of this paper is to devise a more accurate logic for understanding the sustainable seafood movement, using a qualitative literature review and reflection on our previous research. We find that replacing the consumer-driven logic with a retailer/brand-driven logic does not go far enough in making research into the sustainable seafood movement more useful. Governance is a "concert" and cannot be adequately explained through individual actor groups. We propose a new logic going beyond consumer-or retailer/brand-driven models, and call on researchers to build on the partial pictures given by studies on prices and willingness-to-pay, investigating more fully the motivations of actors in the sustainable seafood movement, and considering audience beyond the direct consumption of the product in question.

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“…The opinions of farmers from both of these areas are likely to provide a good representation of the potential desirability of a hybrid electric farm tractor. The pattern for evaluating the market and formulating questions was derived from a previous work by Dr. Xu et al (2012). The survey was developed with the intent of analyzing tractor purchase decisions based on five factors, namely purchase price, air pollution, fuel efficiency, reliability, and the aspect of new technology in terms of maintenance and repair.…”

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Preliminary Market Analysis for a New Hybrid Electric Farm Tractor

Flint¹,

Zhang²,

Xu³

2014

Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Global Economy, Commerce and Service Science

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Abstract-Asurveywas administratedwith 101 participants from the agriculture communities in California and Texastoanalyzepotential market acceptance for a hybrid electric farm tractor (HET) and to identify factors influencing purchase decisions. The preliminary results suggest that reliability is a deterministic factor and famers are willing to pay more for a reliable unit. The primary benefits of hybrid technology, namely fuel efficiency and reduced air pollution, are not major factors affected purchase decisions. Probit analysis results show that a farmer with more than 50 years work experience is less willingto purchase an HET. Those who are willing to pay a high maintenance cost are more likely to purchase an HET. However, farmers' age has a stronger impact such that even an older farmer may budget a relatively high maintenance cost, he is less likely to purchase the HET. Successfulmarketing strategies of an HET rely on customer education help them understand the farmlevel benefits of using hybrid electric technology.

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Chinese consumers’ willingness to pay for green- and eco-labeled seafood

Cited by 166 publications

References 20 publications

Green Returns to Education: Does Schooling Contribute to Pro-Environmental Behaviours? Evidence from Thailand

Green Returns to Education: Does Schooling Contribute to Pro-Environmental Behaviours? Evidence from Thailand

The Sustainable Seafood Movement Is a Governance Concert, with the Audience Playing a Key Role

Preliminary Market Analysis for a New Hybrid Electric Farm Tractor

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