Prospects and Challenges for Disseminating Life Cycle Thinking towards Environmental Conscious Behaviors in Daily Lives

Tsuda, Kazutoshi; Hara, Keishiro; Uwasu, Michinori

doi:10.3390/su5010123

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“…In the specific case of this study, the issue of sustainability may not be understood by consumers as a factor that promotes a sense of pride, especially in situations where sustainability is sold by the manufacturer and the consumer is not guaranteed to be true information, as may be the case involving green products. Potentially, if the consumer can perceive an immediate effect of their actions, such as participating in voluntary actions and / or working for a needy community (Tsuda, Hara & Uwasu, 2013;Ulusoy, 2016), the feeling of Pride in doing work may be more present, but that is not the scope of work.…”

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confidence: 99%

Guilt and Pride Emotions and their Influence on the Intention of Purchasing Green Products

Lima

Costa

Félix

2019

CBR

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The aim of this paper was to analyze the influence of feelings of guilt and pride in the intention of buying green products by consumers considered sustainable. Guilt and pride are two constructs that shapes people’s actions to avoid guilt-making behaviors and keep those proud, making it important to assess how these two constructs act when it comes to sustainability-related actions, in this case for green products. For this purpose, a descriptive quantitative research was used, with the survey of data performed through a survey and analyzed through multivariate statistics through the SPSS. The results showed that the emotion of guilt was identified as a stimulus factor for the purchase of green products, as a variable that would prevent the consumer to develop unsustainable behaviors, and the feeling of pride was not identified in the respondents, when researching the influence that exerts in the intention of consumers to buy green products. The result contributes to researches in sustainability field by corroborating and at the same time contrasting with research considered incipient that relate emotions to sustainable consumer behavior, opening opportunities for further research on the influence of emotions in consumers behavior in sustainability area.

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Section: Results Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Guilt and Pride Emotions and their Influence on the Intention of Purchasing Green Products

Lima

Costa

Félix

2019

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“…Through trying to understand the predictable irrationalities of consumers (96), behavioral interventions such as choice editing (where the range of choices is actually reduced) and smart defaults (where the default option is the most sustainable or healthy choice for people) have been developed that aim either to limit cognitive bias or to utilize bias to drive sustainable action. 3 Individuals have competing concerns and pressures in the marketplace (98), limited time to make decisions, and limited information about the impacts and options for action. Several behavioral interventions have been designed to respond to these constraints.…”

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confidence: 99%

Transforming Consumption: From Decoupling, to Behavior Change, to System Changes for Sustainable Consumption

O’Rourke

Lollo

2015

Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour.

146

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Consumption, although often considered an individual choice, is deeply ingrained in behaviors, cultures, and institutions, and is driven and supported by corporate and government practices. Consumption is also at the heart of many of our most critical ecological, health, and social problems. What is referred to broadly as sustainable consumption has primarily focused on making consumption more efficient and gradually decoupling it from energy and resource use. We argue for the need to focus sustainable consumption initiatives on the key impact areas of consumption-transport, housing, energy use, and food-and at deeper levels of system change. To meet the scale of the sustainability challenges we face, interventions and policies must move from relative decoupling via technological improvements, to strategies to change the behavior of individual consumers, to broader initiatives to change systems of production and consumption. We seek to connect these emerging literatures on behavior change, structural interventions, and sustainability transitions to arrive at integrated frameworks for learning, iteration, and scaling of sustainability innovations. We sketch the outlines of research and practice that offer potentials for system changes for truly sustainable consumption.

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“…MFA is one of the many tools used to give expression to life cycle thinking (LCT) around sustainable development [28,29]. The term MFA may also refer to a family of tools, which includes a wide variety of analytical approaches and measurements, ranging in scope from economy-wide to substance-or product-specific analyses [30].…”

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Shea (Vitellaria paradoxa) Butter Production and Resource Use by Urban and Rural Processors in Northern Ghana

2015

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Abstract:This article explores the use of field experimentation in presenting an account of input inventory, material quantities, and the process flow for shea butter production in Ghana. The shea fruit is a non-timber forest product (NTFP) that is indigenous to ecosystems in semi-arid regions of Africa. Current methods and equipment for processing shea kernel into butter impose a dilemma of excessive harvesting of fuel wood for heating and the use of large quantities of water. Thus, the nature of input requirement and production process presents implications for conflict over natural resource use and for sustainability as more processing takes place. Material flow analysis was applied to the data generated from the processing experiments. The outcome was discussed in focus group discussion sessions and individual interviews as a way of data triangulation to validate study parameters. Results from this experiment showed that the quantity of water used in urban processing sites was higher than that used in rural sites. On the other hand, fuel wood use and labor expended were found to be higher in rural sites per unit processing cycle. The nature of the processing equipment, accessibility to input resources, and target market for shea butter were key determinants of the varying resource quantities used in the production process.

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Prospects and Challenges for Disseminating Life Cycle Thinking towards Environmental Conscious Behaviors in Daily Lives

Cited by 6 publications

References 29 publications

Guilt and Pride Emotions and their Influence on the Intention of Purchasing Green Products

Guilt and Pride Emotions and their Influence on the Intention of Purchasing Green Products

Transforming Consumption: From Decoupling, to Behavior Change, to System Changes for Sustainable Consumption

Shea (Vitellaria paradoxa) Butter Production and Resource Use by Urban and Rural Processors in Northern Ghana

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