Market and non-market determinants of private consumption and their impacts on the environment

Cogoy, Mario

doi:10.1016/0921-8009(95)00006-u

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“…In this sense, ''consumption'' has much to do with the way in which individuals organize their lives using different inputs and moving between different types of institutions with the aim of successfully organizing their life-process (Cogoy, 1995). Consumers are free to combine different kinds of inputs in different ways depending upon their creative and innovative potential.…”

Section: Role Of Personal Consumptionmentioning

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Exploring socially responsible behaviour of Indian consumers: an empirical investigation

Singh

2009

Social Responsibility Journal

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PurposeWith growing consumerism in the country, Indians need to behave in a socially responsible manner for its sustainable development. This study sets out to explore the extent of the relationship between the demography and socially responsible behaviour of Indian consumers.Design/methodology/approachA slightly modified SRCB scale developed by Antil and Bennet with 34 Likert‐type items along with a few demographic questions is introduced among two equal groups representing urban and rural consumers, because they almost equally contribute to the country's GDP.FindingsUrban respondents scored high in all demographic categories in comparison with rural consumers. Gender‐wise, the behaviour was quite symmetrical in both the groups. Education‐wise, inverse relationship is noticeable between the SRCB‐mean values and educational‐level; it may be due to the respondents' continuing education. The inference is reinforced while analyzing the SRCB‐values across the age groups. Interestingly, younger ones particularly, the females are demonstrating high scoring on the SRCB‐scale. Analyzing according to income‐level revealed significant difference only for urban consumers. The lower‐income category score high because they are non‐earning (students) or have just begun earning.Research limitations/implicationsThe implications for green marketers are to focus on young consumers and more particularly the female population for creating loyal segment and gaining competitive edge. The policy makers need to promote urbanization for sustainable living and creating awareness of clean‐green living. Young Indians are identified as being more promising and socially responsible than their elders.Originality/valueThe paper makes an attempt to identify an insight into Indian consumers in terms of their socially responsible consumption behaviour. It presents a base for future studies on consumer social responsibility.

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Section: Role Of Personal Consumptionmentioning

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Exploring socially responsible behaviour of Indian consumers: an empirical investigation

Singh

2009

Social Responsibility Journal

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“…Because of the basic energy demands by every household, and because this typology asks for PW service once the overload of UW for a single household is no longer sustainable in terms of time, we must recognize that the majority of households have high support needs (Jarvis, 2011). For these reasons if, on the one hand, the extreme utopia of marketization realizes the abolition of every work in the household and allows the increase of GDP, on the other hand, it will cause a continuous shift of skill from household to the market (Cogoy, 1995), an increase of social isolation and the diminishing of reciprocal welfare because of the new prevalent single household typology (Jarvis, 2011). Moreover, our results show the increase in the single household does not eliminate the burden of women to carry out unpaid work, and further, it increases the demand of energy in society.…”

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“…In fact, we believe that while unpaid work is necessary "to build and maintain homes and establish human relationships and communities" (Perkins, 1997), the commodification of its goods and service has important consequences in social and environmental terms. In social terms, the commodification of unpaid work tends to cause a continual shift of labour and skill from household production to the market economy; while the expansion of marketization implies a more intensive use of energy (Cogoy, 1995), as the present works tries to show. We analyze the use of time in Catalonia across gender and age categories, presenting the main differences in time allocation between men and women.…”

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Household work and energy consumption: a degrowth perspective. Catalonia’s case study

D’Alisa

Cattaneo²

2013

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…The growing tendency to integrate non-market sectors and goods into market activity is important for our concerns. The previously home-made goods and services are currently mediated through the market, not only through an increasing number of household appliances, but also through the 'industrialization of leisure time' (Cogoy, 1995). The activities that formerly belonged to the domestic sector are increasingly integrated into the market economy.…”

Section: Consumption and Social Structurementioning

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Some reflections on the link between production and consumption for sustainable development

Haake

Jolivet

2001

IJSD

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This paper addresses sustainable consumption as a way of contributing to the implementation of sustainable development. In order to introduce our reflections, the paper deals first with microeconomic consumer theory. The main aspects of neoclassical consumer theory are briefly outlined, and some recent theoretical reflections are introduced to better understand consumption patterns, In the second part of the paper, two propositions stress that production and consumption both have environmental impacts and, therefore, can both contribute to improve the state of the environment: the Ehrlich-formula on the one hand, and the distinction between eco-efficiency and sufficiency on the other. We then discuss some possible improvements of the economic functioning that take into account the role of both the producer and the consumer. Information is proposed as the main transmission mean between the two economic actors.

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Market and non-market determinants of private consumption and their impacts on the environment

Cited by 25 publications

References 6 publications

Exploring socially responsible behaviour of Indian consumers: an empirical investigation

Exploring socially responsible behaviour of Indian consumers: an empirical investigation

Household work and energy consumption: a degrowth perspective. Catalonia’s case study

Some reflections on the link between production and consumption for sustainable development

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