Pub Date : 2025-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.clrc.2025.100321
Jianbin Xu , Jie Song , Baochao Li
Carbon emissions from rural households in underdeveloped regions remain poorly understood compared to those in urban and developed areas. This study analyzes household carbon emissions in Xunyang County, China, demonstrating that food-related emissions dominate across both farming and non-agricultural households, followed by energy consumption and transportation, with housing and clothing contributing minimally. Livestock farming is the primary source within production-related emissions, highlighting the mitigation potential of reducing ruminant livestock. Employing a Lasso regression model (adjusted R2 = 0.769, F = 44.160), we identify housing floor area and non-agricultural hukou status as key drivers of emissions, whereas female-headed households, aging populations, regional GDP, and terrain complexity exert negative or marginal negative effects. The nuanced influences of education and crop/water area reveal complex socio-ecological dynamics that warrant further investigation. These findings underscore the need for targeted low-carbon interventions focused on improving residential efficiency, managing urbanization-driven consumption, and incentivizing sustainable behaviors to advance rural sustainability.
与城市和发达地区相比，欠发达地区农村家庭的碳排放仍然知之甚少。本研究分析了中国旬阳县的家庭碳排放，结果表明，在农业和非农业家庭中，与食品相关的碳排放占主导地位，其次是能源消耗和交通运输，住房和服装贡献最小。畜牧业是与生产有关的排放的主要来源，这突出了减少反刍牲畜的减排潜力。采用Lasso回归模型（调整后的R2 = 0.769, F = 44.160），我们发现住房面积和非农业户口状况是碳排放的主要驱动因素，而女性户主家庭、人口老龄化、地区GDP和地形复杂性对碳排放产生负向或边际负向影响。教育和作物/水域的微妙影响揭示了复杂的社会生态动态，值得进一步研究。这些发现强调了有针对性的低碳干预措施的必要性，重点是提高住宅效率，管理城市化驱动的消费，激励可持续行为，以促进农村的可持续性。
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Pub Date : 2025-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.clrc.2025.100323
Jonas Krauss, Klaus Menrad, Thomas Decker
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The adoption of renewable small-scale energy technologies (S-RET) into hybrid heating solutions consisting of several energy technologies is rapidly increasing in the domestic sector. The adoption of hybrid S-RET involves an information intensive process to fit a combination of new technologies to existing energy and building infrastructure. The specifics of hybrid S-RET adoption processes and the related information acquisition processes have not been covered by previous research. We explore this through an in-depth interview study with 56 Finnish detached house owners with hybrid solutions. We find that hybrid S-RET adoption differs importantly from one-time single S-RET adoption as it involves an ongoing learning process to learn and install multiple technologies in conjunction to each other. During this process, adopters use a wide range of information sources out of which peer provided information is regarded the most often used (53/56) as well as being the most important source due to its practical and contextualized nature. Supplier and government provided information sources and energy counseling services are regarded as less useful and consulted less often, which undermines the central role which literature on single S-RET adoption gives to energy counseling. It is pertinent to think how peer exchanges that commonly take place in Internet discussion forums can be better connected to energy counseling to better serve citizens’ needs and information search preferences and boost the adoption and operation of hybrid heating solutions.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.clrc.2025.100318
Saud H. Sulaimani , Bob Eves , Moamar Gashoot , Tim Reynolds , Ben Thomas
Despite their sustainable benefits, the acceptance of recycled plastic products (RPPs) is not widely embraced. Previous research has primarily concentrated on enhancing consumer acceptance of products produced from recycled materials. However, this study narrows its focus to products derived specifically from recycled plastics, examining the determinants that may restrict consumers' purchasing decisions in this context. To explore the factors that influence consumer acceptance of recycled plastic products, a literature review was conducted with the following objectives: (1) to investigate what are the consumer's aesthetic perceptions, preferences, prioritisations and beliefs of RPPs, (2) to explore the emotional, behavioural and environmental connections between RPPs and consumers, (3) to identify the challenges that product designers encounter when shaping RPPs, (4) to analyse the historical, cultural and theoretical framework backgrounds of RPPs, (5) to specify future research recommendations to enhance consumers experience of RPPs. The literature review of 103 articles revealed a significant gap in research concerning products made from recycled plastic. Also, it highlighted potential future directions that could benefit academics and practitioners interested in this field.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.clrc.2025.100308
Patrícia Norwood , Emily Cleland , Paul McNamee
Background
The UK aims to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by 2050, with food production and consumption being major contributors to GHG emissions. Consequently, the unsustainable nature of current dietary patterns significantly drives environmental degradation and climate change. Understanding consumer perspectives on adopting more sustainable diets and food systems is therefore essential to effectively mitigate these environmental impacts.
Aims
This study explores consumer attitudes and behaviours towards healthy and sustainable diets (HSD) in the UK.
Methods
Q-methodology was employed for the first time to capture the subjective and often diverse viewpoints held by people on the complex and multidimensional topic of HSD. This approach enables a structured exploration of individual perspectives, making it well-suited to understanding the nuanced beliefs and attitudes that shape consumer views on healthy and sustainable eating practices.
Results
43 participants, recruited through social media, sorted statements related to HSD, highlighting seven factors that encapsulate varying perspectives on healthy dietary choices and sustainability. These factors—ranging from strong support for educational interventions to scepticism about sustainability claims—illustrate the complexity of public opinion. Notably, no consensus statements were identified, underscoring the polarization around HSD topics.
Conclusion
This fragmentation suggests that diverse, targeted strategies are essential to effectively promote sustainable eating habits. The findings provide insights for policymakers aiming to design interventions that resonate with specific consumer motivations, emphasizing the need for customized approaches to facilitate shifts towards sustainable diets.
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Pub Date : 2025-08-25DOI: 10.1016/j.clrc.2025.100317
Jonas Krauss, Klaus Menrad, Thomas Decker
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Pub Date : 2025-08-21DOI: 10.1016/j.clrc.2025.100316
Shirin Betzler , Lena Schmeiduch , Jana Weißenberger , Gonzalo Palomo-Vélez
In the global quest for containment of the climate crisis, government incentives and measures play an important role to promote consumers' preferences for sustainable products. For policies to be effective, achieving public acceptance is particularly relevant. In this context, it is important to understand how different forms of trust in political institutions relate to perceptions of policy acceptance and effectiveness, and how these interact with different types of policies and cultural contexts. Against this backdrop, in an online experiment with a 2x2 design, we manipulated participants' perceptions of competence- and integrity-based trust in an expert commission appointed by the national government to design sustainable food policies in Germany (N = 249) and Chile (N = 203). Effects on the acceptance and perceived effectiveness of market-based (introduction of a new tax) and information-based (holistic label) sustainable food policies were measured. Descriptive results suggest that in Germany, information-based policies were believed to be more effective than market-based policies, while in Chile, the reverse was true. Exploratory results of multiple regression analyses further indicate that integrity-based trust compared to competence-based trust was a significant predictor for perceived policy effectiveness in both countries and for policy acceptance in Germany. In contrast, competence-based trust seems to be crucial for policy acceptance in Chile. No clear differential patterns emerged in function of policy type. Overall, the present study yields important points of departure for the design of effective policy making, giving importance to people's support in pursuing a consistent climate change strategy.
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Pub Date : 2025-08-21DOI: 10.1016/j.clrc.2025.100319
Eva Johansson , Georg Carlsson , Åsa Grimberg , William R. Newson , Thomas Prade , Sara Spendrup , Sven-Erik Svensson
Environmental concerns together with a growing global population and health benefits call for an increased use of plant proteins in the human diet. This review paper summarizes opportunities and challenges of such an increased use and reveals the way forward for plant proteins for human consumption. The results clearly emphasize the increased consumer interest, especially in certain consumer segments, of the use of plant protein-based food alternatives, the positive environmental impact of the use of such alternatives and the wide array of crops available to be developed into novel protein-rich food choices. Major challenges identified are; i) how to combine different plant sources to receive highly nutritional and tasty food products, ii) how to produce crops with a high and easily extractable protein content, which simultaneously contain low amount of unwanted components such as antinutritional factors, iii) environmental effects of the production of the plant protein to be utilized for the protein-rich food items, and iv) economic feasibility of the plant protein food products. Opportunities exist to develop the processing methods for protein fractionation, although consumer preferences, environmental effects, economic feasibility and impact on protein functionality have to be taken into account in such developments. Plant breeding is summarized as a major way forward to target crops high in easily available protein and low in unwanted components, thereby fitting consumer desires simultaneously as contributing to economic feasibility and reduced environmental impact. Cultivation is the main source of the environmental impact in the plant protein value chain, while protein content, composition and extractability affect consumer preferences and both their economic and environmental impact.
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Pub Date : 2025-08-13DOI: 10.1016/j.clrc.2025.100315
Yuting Xie , Yunhong Liu , Liang Dong
This paper aims to demonstrate that the government's focus has a significant influence on the effectiveness of implementing climate change mitigation policies. This paper analyzes two mitigation actions implemented in Shanghai, within the context of three guidelines for effective policy implementation. These mitigation actions include increasing energy efficiency and reducing coal consumption. The three guidelines are 1) governmental focus on policy implementation, 2) evaluation mechanisms for assessing policy impact, and 3) stakeholders' participation at various levels of government and the public. This paper uses qualitative research methods within a case study approach. Data collection is based on secondary sources, including literature reviews. The results suggest that the government should intensify its focus on various policy implementation processes to enhance the effectiveness of climate change mitigation policies. This paper may serve as a useful example for other cities facing similar implementation challenges in increasing the efficiency of climate change mitigation policies.
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Pub Date : 2025-08-11DOI: 10.1016/j.clrc.2025.100314
Gracia-de-Rentería Pilar , Ferrer-Pérez Hugo
Household food waste poses a serious threat to planetary boundaries, particularly regarding water use, since it translates directly into unnecessary consumption of virtual water, contributing to freshwater depletion and threatening water security in water-scarce regions. This study examines how household socioeconomic factors differentially drive the water footprint embedded in food wasted, and how these impacts vary across food categories. To do so, we combine detailed data on food waste quantities of representative Spanish households for the period 2018–2022 with data on unitary water footprint of consumption, in order to calculate the volume of virtual water embedded in food discarded by households. We then employ a pooled regression approach to estimate the socioeconomic characteristics influencing it, analysing differences across food categories and testing how the impact of household characteristics varies by categories. Our results reveal that higher socioeconomic status and larger households significantly increase the water footprint of food waste, while the age of the main shopper and the presence of children are associated with a reduction. Moreover, our findings show that the water footprint of vegetables and other foods categories is more sensitive to socioeconomic status, while the water footprint of meat and dairy categories shows a stronger effect driven by age and household size. These insights offer policymakers valuable guidance for the design of tailored policies for specific groups to reduce the water usage, focusing not only on those products with a higher waste level, but also with a higher water footprint.
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