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Beyond income: correlates of conspicuous and luxury consumption in India 收入之外:印度炫耀性和奢侈品消费的相关因素
Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-02-10 DOI: 10.1080/15487733.2022.2029041
Soumyajit Bhar, S. Lele, Narasimha D. Rao
Abstract Concern about the environmental impacts of consumption has drawn research attention to the drivers of conspicuous and luxury (C/L) consumption. Given the prevailing patterns of overconsumption, most studies to date have focused on countries in the global North. However, an emerging high-consuming middle and upper class in nations such as India and Brazil makes it imperative to extend the study of C/L consumption to these contexts. Research that does exist pertaining to India has predominantly focused only on the role of social identity in driving consumption growth among certain groups. Our study proposes a broader conceptual framework, incorporating a variety of possible factors and applying multivariate statistical analysis to household-expenditure data from the India Human Development Survey. We examine how C/L consumption expenditure is correlated not just with the economic ability to consume (income or wealth) but also with potential socio-psychological drivers and moderators. The results show that while the economic ability to consume (income or its proxy) is an enabling factor, mass-media exposure and social network activity appear to influence C/L consumption positively. Education and caste have more mixed relationships with consumption, and interaction effects between these two variables and economic ability to consume are also significant. The results highlight the importance of socio-psychological factors in shaping consumption decisions beyond the enabling role of income and wealth. Improving understanding of this broader set of factors, as well as their interaction effects, is particularly salient for devising better policies for transitioning toward more sustainable consumption patterns in a large developing country such as India.
消费对环境的影响引起了人们对炫耀性和奢侈品消费驱动因素的关注。鉴于过度消费的普遍模式,迄今为止的大多数研究都集中在全球北方国家。然而,在印度和巴西等国家,新兴的高消费中产阶级和上层阶级使得将信用证消费研究扩展到这些背景下势在必行。有关印度的研究主要集中在社会身份在推动某些群体消费增长方面的作用。我们的研究提出了一个更广泛的概念框架,纳入了各种可能的因素,并对来自印度人类发展调查的家庭支出数据进行了多元统计分析。我们研究了信用证消费支出如何不仅与经济消费能力(收入或财富)相关,而且与潜在的社会心理驱动因素和调节因素相关。结果表明,虽然经济消费能力(收入或其代理)是一个促成因素,但大众媒体曝光和社交网络活动似乎对C/L消费产生了积极影响。教育和种姓与消费的关系更为复杂,这两个变量与经济消费能力之间的交互效应也很显著。研究结果强调了社会心理因素在塑造消费决策方面的重要性,而不仅仅是收入和财富的推动作用。增进对这一系列更广泛的因素及其相互作用的了解,对于在象印度这样的发展中大国制订向更可持续的消费模式过渡的更好的政策是特别重要的。
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引用次数: 3
Balancing needs: young unemployed Finnish adults’ discourse on well-being and its relation to the sustainability transformation 平衡需求:年轻失业的芬兰成年人对福祉的论述及其与可持续性转型的关系
Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-02-10 DOI: 10.1080/15487733.2022.2030115
Tuula Helne, Tuuli Hirvilammi
Abstract Meeting human needs while respecting ecological limits is one of the daunting tasks of the sustainability transformation. To succeed in it, it is vital to discuss, to reconstruct, and to deconstruct the dominant discourse on well-being. How young people understand well-being is a particularly important issue since they are the prospective harbingers of change. However, the public discourse on youth is often problem-oriented, especially regarding youth not in employment or education. In this article, the gaze is directed at one such group. Group-interview data of young unemployed Finnish adults are analyzed to explore how they conceptualize well-being and how this understanding relates to the sustainability transformation. We interpret the data with the help of a need-based theory of sustainable, multidimensional, and relational well-being (the Having-Doing-Loving-Being framework). The study demonstrates that the young adults’ discourse is compatible with the framework, and differs distinctly from the prevailing policy discourse on well-being by giving far less weight to monetary aspects, and by its emphasis on meaningfulness, ethical activities, and connectedness with nature. The article concludes with implications for the sustainability transformation regarding consumption, employment policies, social and health services, biodiversity and conservation, positive sustainability, and the theory of sustainable well-being.
在尊重生态极限的同时满足人类需求是可持续转型的艰巨任务之一。要在这方面取得成功,讨论、重建和解构关于幸福的主流话语至关重要。年轻人如何理解幸福是一个特别重要的问题,因为他们是未来变革的先驱者。然而,关于青年的公共话语往往是问题导向的,特别是那些没有就业或教育的青年。在这篇文章中,我们关注的是这样一个群体。小组访谈的年轻失业芬兰成年人的数据进行分析,以探讨他们如何概念化幸福感和这种理解如何与可持续发展转型。我们用一种基于需求的可持续、多维和关系幸福理论(拥有-做-爱-存在框架)来解释这些数据。该研究表明,年轻人的话语与框架是兼容的,并且与流行的关于福祉的政策话语截然不同,因为它对金钱方面的重视要少得多,并且强调有意义、道德活动和与自然的联系。文章最后从消费、就业政策、社会和卫生服务、生物多样性和保护、积极可持续性以及可持续福利理论等方面对可持续转型的启示进行了总结。
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引用次数: 6
Recycling technologies for enabling sustainability transitions of the fashion industry: status quo and avenues for increasing post-consumer waste recycling 实现时尚产业可持续转型的回收技术:增加消费后废物回收的现状和途径
Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-02-09 DOI: 10.1080/15487733.2022.2027122
E. Eppinger
Abstract A major environmental issue of the rise in garment production is a steep increase of textile waste. At the same time, recycling technologies appear to be promising avenues for sustainability transitions of the fashion industry. This article examines the chances and challenges of scaling recycling technologies for textiles and considers the collection and sorting processes as well as the actual reuse. Drawing on case studies and expert interviews, the results indicate current obstacles and opportunities for accelerating diffusion of recycling technologies. Various initiatives are promising, however industry structures, garment designs, and business models need to be re-orientated and re-aligned to accelerate these recycling concepts. Applying the greenwashing notion that acknowledges co-creation by producers and consumers, the article critically argues that the focus on recycled polyester bottles for garments distorts incentives to improve other recycling technologies and masks the true cost of textile-waste recycling. Instead, fashion-brand companies and retailers should leverage their market power to foster sustainability standards in the global recycling industry.
随着服装生产的增加,一个主要的环境问题是纺织废料的急剧增加。与此同时,回收技术似乎是时尚产业可持续转型的有希望的途径。本文考察了纺织品规模化回收技术的机遇和挑战,并考虑了收集和分类过程以及实际的再利用。根据案例研究和专家访谈,结果指出了目前加速传播回收技术的障碍和机会。各种各样的倡议都很有希望,但是行业结构、服装设计和商业模式需要重新定位和调整,以加速这些回收概念。这篇文章运用了承认生产者和消费者共同创造的“绿色清洗”概念,批判地认为,关注回收聚酯瓶用于服装扭曲了改善其他回收技术的动机,并掩盖了纺织废物回收的真实成本。相反,时尚品牌公司和零售商应该利用他们的市场力量来促进全球回收行业的可持续性标准。
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引用次数: 13
Perspectives: earth rising 视角:地球升起
Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-02-09 DOI: 10.1080/15487733.2022.2027675
K. Fletcher
Abstract This Brief Report argues for approaching fashion sustainability as a whole systems issue and outlines some of the systems insights already uncovered. It also calls out the logic of economic growth as a key factor that limits the prospects for whole sector change. I propose an alternative logic – Earth Logic – which prioritizes Earth and all its species, including humans as a way to diversify and vivify fashion activity within planetary limits. The fashion territory cultivated by this changed logic is unfolding already today and will continue to do so, with roles for existing and entirely new actors, garments, and ways of organizing clothing, albeit configured differently with altered priorities.
摘要:本简要报告主张将时尚可持续发展作为一个整体系统问题,并概述了一些已经发现的系统见解。它还指出,经济增长的逻辑是限制整个行业变革前景的一个关键因素。我提出了另一种逻辑——地球逻辑——它优先考虑地球及其所有物种,包括人类,作为在地球有限范围内多样化和活跃时尚活动的一种方式。由这种改变的逻辑所培育的时尚领域今天已经在展开,并将继续展开,现有的和全新的演员、服装和服装组织方式都将发挥作用,尽管随着优先级的改变而配置不同。
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引用次数: 1
Applying the Pro-Circular change model to restaurant and retail businesses’ preferences for circular economy: evidence from Indonesia 将Pro-Circular变化模型应用于餐馆和零售企业对循环经济的偏好:来自印度尼西亚的证据
Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-02-07 DOI: 10.1080/15487733.2022.2027121
I. Auwalin, Rumayya, Faradilla Rahma Sari, Saskia Rizqina Maulida
Abstract This study aims to examine the impact of persuasive communication as a behavioral change intervention for the pro-circular behavior of restaurant and retail business actors. The Pro-Circular Change Model (P-CCM) with an extended formulation of the Theory of Planned Behavior is used as the underlying framework. In the analysis, we employ a paired t-test to capture the differences before and after the intervention. We find evidence that behavioral change interventions are relatively effective in altering how individuals view the efforts needed to implement features of a pro-circular economy in their business. We also find that persuasive communication is relatively effective in promoting public awareness about current environmental issues. However, we find no significant impact on behavioral intention to implement circular economy strategies.
摘要本研究旨在探讨说服沟通作为一种行为改变干预对餐饮和零售企业行为主体亲循环行为的影响。在计划行为理论的基础上,采用了亲循环变化模型(P-CCM)作为基础框架。在分析中,我们采用配对t检验来捕捉干预前后的差异。我们发现有证据表明,行为改变干预措施在改变个人如何看待在其业务中实施亲循环经济特征所需的努力方面相对有效。我们还发现,劝导式沟通在提高公众对当前环境问题的认识方面相对有效。然而,我们没有发现对实施循环经济战略的行为意愿有显著影响。
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引用次数: 3
Implementation of environmentally sustainable practices and their association with ISO 14001 certification in the construction industry of the United Arab Emirates 在阿拉伯联合酋长国的建筑行业实施环境可持续实践及其与ISO 14001认证的联系
Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-01-31 DOI: 10.1080/15487733.2021.2022880
Hamdi A. Bashir, U. Ojiako, S. Haridy, M. Shamsuzzaman, Rana Musa
Abstract Despite significant worldwide growth in ISO 14001 standard adoption by construction firms, limited research exists on issues related to the implementation of environmentally sustainable practices and their associations with ISO 14001 certification. This article reports the results of an empirical study examining the implementation of environmentally sustainable practices, the link between their usage frequencies and ISO 14001 standard adoption, and the association between having this standard and firm size. The methodological approach involved interviews followed by a structured questionnaire to collect data from 259 construction firms in the United Arab Emirates. The results indicate that (1) environmentally sustainable practices have not been used extensively and those that have been implemented have varying usage frequencies, (2) adoption of the standard has been accompanied by partial improvement in the usage frequencies of the practices, and (3) there is no association between firm size and adoption of the standard. These findings can serve as a guide for policymakers as well as project managers in construction firms that are interested in implementing environmentally sustainable practices and those that are planning to invest in ISO 14001 certification.
尽管全球范围内建筑公司对ISO 14001标准的采用显著增长,但有关环境可持续实践的实施及其与ISO 14001认证的关联的研究有限。本文报告了一项实证研究的结果,该研究考察了环境可持续实践的实施,其使用频率与ISO 14001标准采用之间的联系,以及拥有该标准与企业规模之间的关系。方法方法包括访谈,然后是结构化问卷,从阿拉伯联合酋长国的259家建筑公司收集数据。结果表明:(1)环境可持续实践尚未得到广泛应用,并且已经实施的实践的使用频率各不相同;(2)采用标准伴随着实践使用频率的部分改善;(3)企业规模与采用标准之间没有关联。这些发现可以作为政策制定者和项目经理在建筑公司有兴趣实施环境可持续的做法和那些计划投资于ISO 14001认证的指南。
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引用次数: 3
COVID-19 and socio-materially bounded experimentation in food practices: insights from seven countries 2019冠状病毒病与食品实践中的社会物质限制实验:来自七个国家的见解
Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-01-30 DOI: 10.1080/15487733.2021.2013050
C. Hoolohan, S. Wertheim-Heck, Fanny Devaux, L. Domaneschi, S. Dubuisson-Quellier, Martina Schäfer, U. Wethal
Abstract COVID-19 has caused unprecedented disruption to previously settled everyday routines, prompting a period of forced experimentation as people have adjusted to rapid changes in their private and working lives. For discussions regarding consumption, this period of experimentation has been interesting, as the apparent instability has disturbed the ongoing trajectory of consumption practices, and with it has created possibilities for a transition toward sustainability. In this article, we examine food practices (e.g., food shopping, preparation, and eating) in seven countries (France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, UK, and Vietnam) to assess what we can learn to accelerate transitions toward sustainable consumption. Grounded in a practice theoretical approach, our empirical analysis shows how disruption of everyday routines has generated socio-materially bounded experimentation. We demonstrate commonalities across contexts in how lockdown measures have restricted the performance of previously taken-for-granted practices. We also show diversity in experimentation as food consumption is entangled in other everyday practices. Our study, on one hand, portrays how the adaptation of food practices allows disruption to be managed, demonstrating creativity in working within and around restrictions to continue to provide services for everyday life. On the other hand, we reveal that the capacity of experimentation is not evenly distributed among people and this variation helps in identifying the wider socio-material conditions that constrain and enable opportunities for readjustment. Understanding disparities that affect experimentation (e.g., integration of food practices with work and caring practices) is informative when thinking about how to stimulate sustainability transformations in food practices and provides critical reflections on strategies to enable sustainable consumption.
COVID-19对以前固定的日常生活造成了前所未有的破坏,随着人们适应私人生活和工作生活的快速变化,人们被迫进行了一段时间的实验。对于关于消费的讨论,这段实验时期很有趣,因为明显的不稳定性扰乱了消费实践的持续轨迹,并由此创造了向可持续性过渡的可能性。在这篇文章中,我们考察了七个国家(法国、德国、意大利、荷兰、挪威、英国和越南)的食品实践(例如,食品采购、准备和食用),以评估我们可以从中学到什么来加速向可持续消费的过渡。在实践理论方法的基础上,我们的实证分析显示了日常生活的中断是如何产生社会物质有限实验的。我们展示了不同情况下的共性,即封锁措施如何限制了以前认为理所当然的做法的表现。我们还展示了实验的多样性,因为食物消费与其他日常实践纠缠在一起。一方面,我们的研究描绘了食品实践的适应如何允许管理中断,展示了在限制范围内和周围工作以继续为日常生活提供服务的创造力。另一方面,我们揭示了实验能力在人们之间的分布并不均匀,这种差异有助于确定限制和实现重新调整机会的更广泛的社会物质条件。了解影响实验的差异(例如,将食品实践与工作和护理实践相结合)有助于思考如何刺激食品实践中的可持续性转变,并为实现可持续消费的战略提供批判性反思。
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引用次数: 9
The contribution of local outdoor recreational services to the sustainable management of environmental resources: the case of Tabor Mountain Recreational Park in Hawassa City, Ethiopia 当地户外娱乐服务对环境资源可持续管理的贡献:以埃塞俄比亚阿瓦萨市塔博尔山娱乐公园为例
Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-01-22 DOI: 10.1080/15487733.2021.2023291
M. Mellaku, Yoseph Melka, Bamlaku Ayenew, Tirusew Teshale Taye, Abera Tilahun
Abstract There has to date been limited research on the economic valuation of local outdoor recreational services to inform policy and practice. This study attempts to fill this gap by estimating the annual recreational value of Tabor Mountain Recreational Park, an open-access recreational site in Hawassa City (also known as Awassa City), Ethiopia. This study employs single-bounded dichotomous choice and open-ended elicitation methods using primary and secondary data collected from 260 urban residents during June–August 2019. A complementary assessment of the determinants of local visitors’ willingness-to-pay (WTP) is also carried out. Descriptive statistics and a binary logistic regression model were used to analyze the survey data. Overall, 87% and 98% of the respondents were willing to accept the initial bid value and to give non-zero maximum WTP, respectively. On average, a local resident makes/intends to make 2.57 visits per month paying a mean entrance fee of ETB 28.33 per visit, which represents approximately ETB 93,498,000 per year. Furthermore, average monthly income and the afternoon visiting-time preference of local visitors had a positive effect on individuals’ WTP. Initial bid value, frequency of visits per month, number of dependent families, and age of local visitors had a negative effect on WTP. The substantial annual local recreational value estimate of Tabor Mountain Park reveals the potential of local financing alternatives for sustainable development and management of environmental resources in similar settings.
迄今为止,对当地户外娱乐服务的经济评估进行的研究有限,无法为政策和实践提供信息。本研究试图通过估算埃塞俄比亚阿瓦萨市(又称阿瓦萨市)的开放休闲场所Tabor Mountain recreational Park的年娱乐价值来填补这一空白。本研究采用单界二选法和开放式启发法,使用了2019年6月至8月期间从260名城市居民中收集的一手和二手数据。对当地游客的支付意愿(WTP)的决定因素进行了补充评估。采用描述性统计和二元logistic回归模型对调查数据进行分析。总体而言,87%和98%的受访者分别愿意接受初始出价和给予非零最大WTP。平均而言,当地居民每月进行/打算进行2.57次访问,每次访问的平均入场费为28.33英镑,每年约为93,498,000英镑。此外,平均月收入和当地游客的下午游览时间偏好对个人WTP有正向影响。初始出价、每月访问频率、受抚养家庭数量和当地游客的年龄对WTP有负向影响。Tabor山公园的大量年度当地娱乐价值估计显示了在类似情况下,为可持续发展和环境资源管理提供当地融资选择的潜力。
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Working less by choice: what are the benefits and hardships? 选择少工作:好处和困难是什么?
Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-01-21 DOI: 10.1080/15487733.2021.2023292
Ola Persson, J. Larsson, Jonas Nässén
Abstract Working time reduction (WTR) is a policy that could improve quality of life while reducing environmental impacts. However, WTR coupled with a salary reduction may benefit only higher-income earners and increase social inequalities. Against this background, we analyze how the motivations for and the socioecological outcomes from working less vary across different socioeconomic groups. The analysis is based on a survey conducted among municipal employees under full-time contracts who utilized the City of Gothenburg’s “right to part-time” policy. We find that working less improved quality of life not only for higher-income groups but also for lower-income groups through gains in time affluence, energy, health, and time spent on strengthening social ties. However, three negative effects emerged. First, WTR lead to increased work intensification, particularly among higher-income earners. Second, concerns regarding making ends meet and future retirement income were particularly salient issues among lower-income earners. Finally, WTR to cope with unfavorable working conditions was a much more common motivation among manual workers with lower salaries. We conclude that WTR can be a viable option across a broader range of socioeconomic groups than previously assumed but that it is nevertheless important to consider the effects on social inequality when designing WTR policies.
减少工作时间(WTR)是一项既能提高生活质量又能减少环境影响的政策。然而,WTR加上减薪可能只会使高收入者受益,并增加社会不平等。在此背景下,我们分析了不同社会经济群体减少工作的动机和社会生态结果是如何变化的。这一分析是基于对哥德堡市“兼职权”政策下的全职市政雇员进行的一项调查。我们发现,减少工作不仅能提高高收入群体的生活质量,还能通过增加时间、精力、健康和加强社会关系的时间来提高低收入群体的生活质量。然而,出现了三个负面影响。首先,WTR导致工作强度增加,特别是在高收入者中。其次,对收支平衡和未来退休收入的担忧在低收入者中尤为突出。最后,在工资较低的体力劳动者中,为了应对不利的工作条件而辞职的动机更为普遍。我们的结论是,WTR可以在比之前假设的更广泛的社会经济群体中成为一种可行的选择,但在设计WTR政策时考虑对社会不平等的影响仍然很重要。
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引用次数: 11
Governing sustainability in the Thai palm oil-supply chain: the role of private actors 管理泰国棕榈油供应链的可持续性:私人行为者的作用
Q1 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-01-13 DOI: 10.1080/15487733.2021.2021688
Somjai Nupueng, P. Oosterveer, A. Mol
Abstract Private actors are essential partners in the sustainability governance of commodity-supply chains such as palm oil. However, their actual contribution to promoting sustainability is also contested. This article assesses the role of private actors in the governance of the palm oil-supply chain in Thailand by comparing supply-chain actors that are certified with the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) standards and non-certified supply-chain actors. The comparison entails input supply and production, collection and sales, processing and storage, and distribution. Building on the concept of (global) value chains, we examine the following governance dimensions in our comparison: the management of contracts and agreements, the role of trust in transactions, the relative power of various actors, and the control over smallholder farmers’ access to the market. Primary data were collected in the Surat Thani and Krabi Provinces in southern Thailand. We found that the RSPO-certified palm-oil chain was shorter, more transparent, and that farmers received higher prices than the non-RSPO-certified chains.
在棕榈油等商品供应链的可持续性治理中,私人行为体是必不可少的合作伙伴。然而,它们对促进可持续性的实际贡献也受到质疑。本文通过比较获得可持续棕榈油圆桌会议(RSPO)标准认证的供应链参与者和未获得认证的供应链参与者,评估了私营参与者在泰国棕榈油供应链治理中的作用。这种比较包括投入物的供应和生产、收集和销售、加工和储存以及分配。基于(全球)价值链的概念,我们在比较中考察了以下治理维度:合同和协议的管理、信任在交易中的作用、各种行动者的相对权力,以及对小农进入市场的控制。主要数据收集于泰国南部的素叻他尼省和甲米省。我们发现,rspo认证的棕榈油链更短,更透明,农民获得的价格高于非rspo认证的链。
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