“…We confront today various global issues such as climate change [36,37], environmental pollution [38,39], and food and water scarcity [40,41] that perhaps should concern all nations of the world. However, not all countries are prone to take immediate actions to limit or eliminate negative impacts and factors that generate these problems [42,43].…”
Section: Sustainable Development and Sustainability Brandingmentioning
The present study reveals the importance of understanding how business decisions focused on sustainability can impact companies, due to the risks associated with brand loyalty. The relationship between brand loyalty and consumers' environmental viewpoint is investigated, including how consumers' brand loyalty would be impacted after environmental-based expansion decisions are announced. College students from the USA and Romania (N = 92) were asked to voluntarily participate in a survey. The Brand Loyalty Scale (BLS) is used to assess brand loyalty before and after a fictitious expansion announcement was made and the New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) scale is utilized to assess attitudes toward sustainability. A paired samples t-test analysis reveals a significant positive correlation between NEP scores (attitudes toward sustainability) and brand loyalty. No significant differences are found in attitudes toward sustainability regarding region (Romania and USA) or gender. These results indicate that individuals who generally show concern towards the environment will stay loyal to their favorite companies after sustainability is introduced. Results also indicate that the gap regarding region and gender is slowly closing in attitudes toward sustainability; individuals in developing countries are also showing a major concern toward environmental issues. Males indicate just as much concern toward the environment as females, which is confirmed by other findings in previous literature.
“…We confront today various global issues such as climate change [36,37], environmental pollution [38,39], and food and water scarcity [40,41] that perhaps should concern all nations of the world. However, not all countries are prone to take immediate actions to limit or eliminate negative impacts and factors that generate these problems [42,43].…”
Section: Sustainable Development and Sustainability Brandingmentioning
The present study reveals the importance of understanding how business decisions focused on sustainability can impact companies, due to the risks associated with brand loyalty. The relationship between brand loyalty and consumers' environmental viewpoint is investigated, including how consumers' brand loyalty would be impacted after environmental-based expansion decisions are announced. College students from the USA and Romania (N = 92) were asked to voluntarily participate in a survey. The Brand Loyalty Scale (BLS) is used to assess brand loyalty before and after a fictitious expansion announcement was made and the New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) scale is utilized to assess attitudes toward sustainability. A paired samples t-test analysis reveals a significant positive correlation between NEP scores (attitudes toward sustainability) and brand loyalty. No significant differences are found in attitudes toward sustainability regarding region (Romania and USA) or gender. These results indicate that individuals who generally show concern towards the environment will stay loyal to their favorite companies after sustainability is introduced. Results also indicate that the gap regarding region and gender is slowly closing in attitudes toward sustainability; individuals in developing countries are also showing a major concern toward environmental issues. Males indicate just as much concern toward the environment as females, which is confirmed by other findings in previous literature.
“…This is because of the ways in which it is closely linked to food insecurity in specialised fishing community contexts, and how it highlights the common drivers of both. Food and water insecurity have often been observed to co‐occur in many cases (Wutich and Brewis, ), and this is also likely to be the case in specialised fishing community contexts beyond those described in this paper. Small islands, for example, represent an example where households may frequently specialise in fishing, and experience both food and water insecurity (Macintyre, ; Lane et al ., ; Hadwen et al ., ).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 82%
“…Linkages between food insecurity and other problems are well‐recognised, for example the linkages between food insecurity and HIV/AIDS (Himmelgreen et al ., ). Social scientists have more recently begun to explore the linkages between food and water insecurity, with some calling for a broader study of ‘resource insecurity’ that examines how humans meet their ‘basic needs’ for food and water (Wutich and Brewis, ). While less studied than the more well‐known concept of food security, water security refers to “the ability to access and benefit from affordable , adequate , reliable , and safe water for wellbeing and a healthy life.…”
Food insecurity remains a common problem for Southeast Asian communities that specialise in fishing. Food insecurity is closely linked to other social conditions, and the linkages between these social conditions and their underlying drivers are less well explored in fishing contexts than they are in agricultural contexts. In this paper I draw on fieldwork from a community that specialises in fishing in the Western Philippines to examine the linkages between and drivers of food and water insecurity. Food insecurity is common, and characterised by a lack of funds to buy food, particularly during periods of bad weather. Water insecurity is also characterised by the need to pay for the delivery of drinking water from one of several remote sources. Because of the central role of markets in communities that specialise in fishing, I argue that both food and water insecurity are driven by income poverty. Understanding the relations between food and water insecurity and the wider drivers of poverty in specialised fishing community contexts should generate improved understandings of how food and water insecurity persist, and how these conditions may be better addressed.
“…It undermines growth and development, compromises basic physiological functions like immunity, intensifies disease, and worsens mental health (eg, Evans & Kim, 2007;Lund et al, 2010;Martorell, 2017;Sapolsky, 2005). Lack of material wealth is a fundamental stressor in humans, both in terms of lack of access to basic needs, but also because of the low power and stigmatized social meanings attached (eg, Weaver, Tadess, Stevenson, & Hadley, 2019;Wutich & Brewis, 2014). In studies that treat poverty as a driver of biocultural variation, "poverty" is most often operationalized as lack of wealth within the cash economy (Hruschka, Hadley, & Hackman, 2017;Mulligan, Dixon, Joanna Sinn, & Elliott, 2015).…”
Objectives
Lack of wealth (poverty) impacts almost every aspect of human biology. Accordingly, many studies include its assessment. In almost all cases, approaches to assessing poverty are based on lack of success within cash economies (eg, lack of income, employment). However, this operationalization deflects attention from alternative forms of poverty that may have the most substantial influence on human wellbeing. We test how a multidimensional measure of poverty that considers agricultural assets expands the explanatory power of the construct of household poverty by associating it with one key aspect of wellbeing: symptoms of mental health.
Methods
We used the case of three highly vulnerable but distinctive communities in Haiti—urban, town with a rural hinterland, and rural. Based on survey responses from adults in 4055 geographically sampled households, linear regression models were used to predict depression and anxiety symptom levels controlling for a wide range of covariates related to detailed measures of material poverty, including cash‐economy and agricultural assets, income, financial stress, and food insecurity.
Results
Household assets related to the cash economy were significantly associated with lower (ie, better) depression scores (−0.7, [95% CI: −1.2 to, −0.1]) but unrelated to anxiety scores (−0.3 [95% CI: −0.8 to 0.3]). Agricultural wealth was significantly—and more strongly—associated with both reductions in depression symptoms (−1.4 [95% CI: −2.2 to −0.7]) and anxiety symptoms (−1.8 [95% CI: −2.6 to −1.0]). These associations were consistent across the three sites, except in the fully urban site in Port‐au‐Prince where level of depression symptoms was not significantly associated with household agricultural wealth.
Conclusions
Standard measures of poverty based on success in the cash economy can mask important associations between poverty and wellbeing, in this case related to household‐level subsistence capacity and crucial food‐producing household assets.
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