Eco-Standards, Product Labelling and Green Consumerism

Boström, Magnus; Klintman, Mikaël

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“…Second, we assessed the relative importance of key personal characteristics predicted to be essential for pro-environmental consumer behavior to identify the most crucial internal barriers for increased demand for eco-labeled seafood. Sweden is a particularly interesting case since the market for eco-labeled food can be considered relatively mature [18,19] (the sales value of organic food reached more than seven percent by 2015 [20]), and Swedish consumers generally show positive attitudes towards eco-labeled food products [21].…”

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Eco-Labeled Seafood: Determinants for (Blue) Green Consumption

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Eco-certification has become an increasingly popular market-based tool in the endeavor to reduce negative environmental impacts from fisheries and aquaculture. In this study, we aimed at investigating which psychological consumer characteristics influence demand for eco-labeled seafood by correlating consumers' stated purchasing of eco-labeled seafood to nine variables: environmental knowledge regarding seafood production, familiarity with eco-labels, subjective knowledge, pro-environmental self-identification, sense of personal responsibility, concern for negative environmental impacts from seafood production, perceived consumer effectiveness, gender and education. Questionnaires were distributed to consumers in Stockholm, Sweden, and the data were tested with multiple regression analysis using linear modeling and model averaging (n = 371). Two variables were the best predictors of stated purchasing of eco-labeled seafood: (i) recognition and understanding of eco-labels for seafood (Marine Stewardship Council, Fish for Life, Aquaculture Stewardship Council and KRAV); and (ii) concern for negative environmental impacts associated with seafood production. Meanwhile, consumer environmental knowledge was a weaker predictor. Results from this study suggest that strengthening the emotional component of consumer decision-making and improving the level of consumer familiarity with seafood eco-labels could stimulate more pro-environmental seafood consumption.

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“…Sustainability standards and certification have by now become more and more mainstream, with different actors entering the stage and new standards benefiting from (soft) infrastructure being in place. In short: VSS have become a recognised mechanism to connect consumption, production and trade with the aim to create more sustainable development outcomes and impacts (Boström & Klintman 2008;Gereffi et al 2005;Giovannucci & Ponte 2005;Potts et al 2014).…”

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“…In their study of varies eco-labelling schemes, Boström and Klintman (2008) show that eco-labelling schemes always reflect compromises made among a variety of interests. Eco-labelling can be seen as a translation process, where a complex social and environmental reality is translated to a simple, categorical message: 'this is a good environmental choice', represented by a symbol.…”

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“…These compromises are rarely communicated to the consumers. What and which environment the label represents is therefore a topic rarely discussed (Boström and Klintman 2008).…”

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“…Green consumers, for instance, are not just rationally using ecolabels to speak and act for the environment. In these kinds of representative practices, green consumers are significantly shaped and restricted, first by the availability of these tools and, second, by the ways these tools have been constructed and framed (Boström and Klintman 2008). Such characteristics of tools for representation will be further discussed in Section 4.…”

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A sociology of environmental representation

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2016

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A sociology of environmental representation.Environmental Sociology, 2(4): [355][356][357][358][359][360][361][362][363][364] http://dx.doi.org/10. 1080/23251042.2016.1213611 Access to the published version may require subscription. N.B. When citing this work, cite the original published paper. The environment cannot plead its own case but must be represented. The aim of this paper is to elaborate on the concept of representation and demonstrate its relevance for environmental sociology. Drawing on Pitkin's classic work on representation, we discuss representation as both 'acting for' and 'standing for'. We also make a distinction between actors (representatives) and devices used as representations (e.g. descriptions, graphs and images), while discussing the intertwinement of these two aspects in representative practices. This paper stresses the performativity dimension and social embeddedness of representative practices. It sheds light on different meanings and implications of environmental representation, examining issues of claimmaking and what it means to represent the environment in various instances. Given the complex, durable and transboundary character of many topical environmental problems, the paper argues that it is essential to recognize and understand environmental representation in all its variety. It is moreover argued that a sociological elaboration of the concept of representation provides a basis for understanding the conditions for environmental politics, governance, management and action. Environmental sociology can thus be a crucial platform for intriguing new studies on environmental representation.

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Eco-Standards, Product Labelling and Green Consumerism

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Eco-Labeled Seafood: Determinants for (Blue) Green Consumption

Eco-Labeled Seafood: Determinants for (Blue) Green Consumption

The Impact of International Cooperative Initiatives on Biodiversity (ICIBs)

A sociology of environmental representation

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