COVID-19 related policies: The role of environmental concern in understanding citizens’ preferences

Escario, José‐Julián; Rodríguez-Sánchez, Carla; Valero-Gil, Jesús; Casaló, Luis V.

doi:10.1016/j.envres.2022.113082

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“…Previous research on organic food also concur with this view and argued that health and environmental benefits have a different nature (Kareklas et al, 2014;Yadav, 2016). While personal health benefits are more related to egoistic motivations, environmental benefits are more linked to altruistic ones because everybody may benefit from that (Kareklas et al, 2014;Escario et al, 2022).…”

Section: Goal-directed Behaviormentioning

confidence: 78%

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Understanding organic food consumption in the European Union: the interaction between health and environmental consumer's goals

Valero-Gil

Escario

Belanche

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PurposeBased on goal-directed behavior, this study explores the direct effects and the interaction between health and environmental concerns as the main drivers of organic food consumption. Consumer's economic problems are proposed as the main barrier for such behavior from a cost-benefit approach theoretically grounded on decision theory.Design/methodology/approachData were collected using the 26,669 European 95.1 wave participants of the Eurobarometer survey. Logistic regression estimates are used to analyze the hypotheses postulated.FindingsThe results indicated the significant association of both health and environmental concerns with organic food consumption, as well as the existence of an interactive effect between both consumer goals. As a novel finding, health concern weakens the influence of environmental concern on organic food consumption. Consumer's economic problems harms the expansion of organic food consumption as well as other socio-demographic factors included as control variables.Originality/valueFor the first time, this research explores the interaction effect between health and environmental concerns as antecedents of organic food consumption. The study argues that these consumer goals present differential features in terms of individual importance, feasibility, abstractness and outcome demonstrability, resulting in a prevalence of health over environmental goals for some consumers. The research provides not only novel insights for understanding organic food consumption but also provides additional evidence for practitioners to develop sales strategies and policymakers to formulate policies to guide the promotion of this so desired example of sustainable consumption.

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Section: Goal-directed Behaviormentioning

confidence: 78%

“…While personal health benefits are more related to egoistic motivations, environmental benefits are more linked to altruistic ones because everybody may benefit from that (Kareklas et al. , 2014; Escario et al. , 2022).…”

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Understanding organic food consumption in the European Union: the interaction between health and environmental consumer's goals

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Escario

Belanche

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“…Most of the papers published in this VSI deal with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and the COVID-19 pandemic. Among them, Coccia (2022a) presented his research on “COVID-19 pandemic over 2020 (with lockdowns) and 2021 (with vaccinations): similar effects for seasonality and environmental factors”, Escario et al (2022) studied “COVID-19 related policies: The role of environmental concern in understanding citizens’ preferences”, whereas the paper by Gómez-Carballa et al (2022) was “A multi-tissue study of immune gene expression profiling highlights the key role of the nasal epithelium in COVID-19 severity”.…”

Section: Comments On Papers Published In the Virtual Special Issuementioning

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The environment, epidemics, and human health

Núñez‐Delgado

Ahmed

Bontempi

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Environmental Research

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“…This occurs especially in time of crisis, as in the current COVID‐19 pandemic, where people prioritize economic and health policies which can give them an immediate individual return. Sustainable initiatives are thus today being globally promoted as the key post‐crisis recovery strategy, allowing the policymaker to integrate economic, health, altruistic and environmental actions in a new and robust manner (Allain‐Dupré, 2020; Escario et al., 2022). This revolutionary process is in line with the SDGs related to water and energy use, economic growth and climate change (Schroeder et al., 2019), but more is required to persuade citizens that environmental policies can complement economic goals rather than conflict with them.…”

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What do you think about climate change?

Baiardi

2022

Journal of Economic Surveys

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To answer this question, this paper reviews the huge and growing body of empirical literature on climate change awareness and summarizes insights emerging from a critical review of about 220 papers. It provides (i) a historical overview of climate change awareness worldwide, (ii) a guide to the most widely used datasets, with particular attention to the wording of questions used to measure climate change awareness when the analysis is performed at individual level; (iii) a detailed analysis of the main socio‐economic and climatological determinants of climate change awareness, such as age, gender, education, political values, the use of mass media and social media, social and institutional trust, experience of extreme weather conditions and the stage of development of the country where people live; and (iv) a summary of the main implications of these findings in terms of public policy responses.

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COVID-19 related policies: The role of environmental concern in understanding citizens’ preferences

Cited by 11 publications

References 43 publications

Understanding organic food consumption in the European Union: the interaction between health and environmental consumer's goals

Understanding organic food consumption in the European Union: the interaction between health and environmental consumer's goals

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