Green Consumerism: Perspectives, Sustainability, and Behavior

Green Consumerism: Perspectives, Sustainability, and Behavior
Author: Ruchika Singh Malyan
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2018-10-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1351138022

This new volume, Green Consumerism: The Behavior of New Age Consumer, provides a holistic understanding the importance of promoting green products and discusses consumers’ buying intentions and decisions. The chapters consider consumer behavior theory in the context of green or ecologically friendly products from both the academic and business perspectives. The chapters present the latest empirical and analytical research in the field of green marketing and provide an abundance of information about profitable and sustainable ways and strategies to deal with environmental problems. The volume considers how consumers are taking responsibility and becoming more aware, driving change in the marketplace. In response, companies are integrating appropriate green strategies into their operational activities, product development processes, and marketing activities to achieve a competitive advantage in saturated markets. This helps companies gain market share and minimize their production costs. Topics discussed in the volume include green pricing, green consumer behavior, various dimensions of consumer purchase intention, sustainable marketing, innovation techniques used to go green, eco-awareness, and other ongoing developments in this rapidly expanding area. Key features: • Discusses research on the latest trends in the field of green marketing, green practices, green products, eco-literacy, environment awareness, protection, management etc. • Provides insight about current consumer behavior, consumers’ eco-literacy levels, and their desires to go green • Covers a multitude of topics, including green pricing, green consumer behavior, sustainable marketing, innovation techniques used to go green, eco-awareness, and more

Green Consumerism

Green Consumerism
Author: Juliana Mansvelt
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 561
Release: 2011-06-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1412996856

Colorful bracelets, funky brooches, and beautiful handmade beads: young crafters learn to make all these and much more with this fantastic step-by-step guide. In 12 exciting projects with simple steps and detailed instructions, budding fashionistas create their own stylish accessories to give as gifts or add a touch of personal flair to any ensemble. Following the successful "Art Smart" series, "Craft Smart" presents a fresh, fun approach to four creative skills: knitting, jewelry-making, papercrafting, and crafting with recycled objects. Each book contains 12 original projects to make, using a range of readily available materials. There are projects for boys and girls, carefully chosen to appeal to readers of all abilities. A special "techniques and materials" section encourages young crafters to try out their own ideas while learning valuable practical skills.

Green Marketing as a Positive Driver Toward Business Sustainability

Green Marketing as a Positive Driver Toward Business Sustainability
Author: Naidoo, Vannie
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2019-07-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1522595600

As corporations increasingly recognize the benefits of green marketing, the number of projects with important local environmental, economic, and quality-of-life benefits shall increase. Encouraging the holistic nature of green, moreover, inspires other retailers to push the movement. Green Marketing as a Positive Driver Toward Business Sustainability is a collection of innovative research on the methods and applications of integrating environmental considerations into all aspects of marketing. While highlighting topics including green consumerism, electronic banking, and sustainability, this book is ideally designed for industrialists, marketers, professionals, engineers, educators, researchers, and scholars seeking current research on green development in regular movement.

Eco-Standards, Product Labelling and Green Consumerism

Eco-Standards, Product Labelling and Green Consumerism
Author: M. Boström
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2008-10-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0230584004

As conscientious consumers, we become overwhelmed with alarms about food contamination, climate change, chemical pollution and other environmental and health-related risks. This book explores green and politically engaged consumersim, asking the question: does green labelling offer ways toward a greener and more democratic society?

The New Green Consumer Guide

The New Green Consumer Guide
Author: Julia Hailes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Conservation of natural resources
ISBN: 9780743295307

Green consumerism is on the rise, but many of us are confused by an avalance of information. This text addresses all the questions the general consumer is asking, giving advice on a wide range of issues, explaining which products, brands and companies are getting it right, and which ones are getting it wrong.

Inspiring Green Consumer Choices

Inspiring Green Consumer Choices
Author: Michael E. Smith
Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2021-09-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1398601012

While many consumers profess a desire to help end climate change by engaging in more sustainable behaviors, consumer behavior experts note the "say-do" gap between expressed intention and behavior. How do we explain this? What, if anything, can consumers be encouraged to do to close this gap and purchase sustainable products and services? Inspiring Green Consumer Choices explains the factors that underlie the discrepancy between consumers' expressed preferences and their incongruous behavior in the marketplace. Drawing from advances in neuroscience, behavioral economics and experimental psychology, the author reveals how marketplace behavior is not always rational. Instead it is frequently the product of mental shortcuts, triggered by situational cues and colored by implicit emotional responses. In making purchasing decisions, routine consumer behavior is governed less by intention than by mental habits and unconscious response biases. These tendencies are difficult (but not impossible) to change. Inspiring Green Consumer Choices outlines how techniques such as psychological framing, design of choice architectures and pricing strategy can be used to disrupt habits and promote sustainable behavior. The author also addresses the role that legislative policy and changing social norms can play in accelerating and sustaining behavior change. Illustrated with case studies and filled with best practices, Inspiring Green Consumer Choices helps marketers understand how consumers make purchase decisions in order to shift consumption choices towards a more sustainable future.

Understanding Green Consumer Behaviour

Understanding Green Consumer Behaviour
Author: Sigmund A. Wagner
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780415316194

Through the study of green, environmentally friendly consumers, this book incorporates original, groundbreaking anthropological and cognitive research to examine basic aspects of the workings of the human mind.

The Unmanageable Consumer

The Unmanageable Consumer
Author: Yiannis Gabriel
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2006-04-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1847878326

`This book was radically challenging when it was first published, and is only more so today as the concept of consumer collapses under the weight of its many meanings' - Madeleine Bunting, Columnist, The Guardian Western-style consumerism appears unstoppable. Yet it is has failed to deliver greater happiness and is now facing major environmental, population and political challenges. This book examines the key Western traditions of thinking about and being a consumer. Each chapter posits a consumer model with examples from the international community. Readers are invited to enter an exciting and radical analysis of contemporary consumerism which suggests that consumerism is fragile and consumers unpredictable. Updated with new material, this Second Edition looks at the impact of new technologies on consumerism and the consolidation of consumerism and 'consumer' language in spheres like education and health. The authors discuss the spread of consumerism to developing countries like India and the effect of demographic change and migration. The fallout from 9/11 and United States military hegemony is examined, as is the influence on consumerism of Islamic fundamentalism, the anti-globalization movement, environmental concerns and depleting natural resources. This book is of interest to advanced undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA students taking courses on behaviour, buyer behaviour, customer behaviour, consumers and society and retailing. Any one interested in better understanding consumerism will also find this book a fascinating read.

The Ethical Consumer

The Ethical Consumer
Author: Rob Harrison
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2005-04-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781412903530

Focusing on ethical consumers, their behavior, discourses and narratives as well as the social and political contexts in which they operate, this text provides a summary of the manner and effectiveness of their actions.

The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Consumption and Consumer Studies

The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Consumption and Consumer Studies
Author: Daniel Thomas Cook
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 630
Release: 2015-03-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0470672846

With entries detailing key concepts, persons, and approaches, The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Consumption and Consumer Studies provides definitive coverage of a field that has grown dramatically in scope and popularity around the world over the last two decades. Includes over 200 A-Z entries varying in length from 500 to 5,000 words, with a list of suggested readings for each entry and cross-references, as well as a lexicon by category, and a timeline Brings together the latest research and theories in the field from international contributors across a range of disciplines, from sociology, cultural studies, and advertising to anthropology, business, and consumer behavior Available online with interactive cross-referencing links and powerful searching capabilities within the work and across Wiley’s comprehensive online reference collection or as a single volume in print www.consumptionandconsumerstudies.com