Special Issue: Behavioural Economics, Environmental Policy and the Consumer
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Page : 132 pages
File Size : 13,83 MB
Release : 2014
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Page : 132 pages
File Size : 13,83 MB
Release : 2014
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Author : Lucia A. Reisch
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File Size : 25,6 MB
Release : 2017
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This essay is an introduction to a forthcoming special issue of the Journal of Consumer Policy, on Behavioural Economics, Environmental Policy and the Consumer. It emphasizes that consumer behavior can be greatly affected by the context, which may make it easy or difficult for people to make choices that benefit or harm the environment, and which may make environmentally relevant features of products more or less salient. Open questions, both ethical and empirical, are identified. The essays in the symposium, summarized here, offer both positive and more critical accounts of behaviourally informed regulation and its tools, as well as a wide range of hands-on applications of behavioural findings to environmentally relevant consumer behaviour.
Author : Folke Ölander
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Page : 127 pages
File Size : 17,35 MB
Release : 1999
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Author : Frank Beckenbach
Publisher : Springer
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 14,52 MB
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3319167936
This book presents essential insights on environmental policy derived from behavioral economics. The authors demonstrate the potential of behavioral economics to drive environmental protection and to generate concrete proposals for the efficient design of policy instruments. Moreover, detailed recommendations on how to use “nudges” and related instruments to move industry and society toward a sustainable course are presented. This book addresses the needs of environmental economists, behavioral economists and environmental policymakers, as well as all readers interested in the intersection between behavioral economics and environmental policy.
Author : Lucia A. Reisch
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Page : 127 pages
File Size : 44,19 MB
Release : 2011
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Author : Alessandro Bucciol
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 46,39 MB
Release : 2023-02-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1000826988
Humans have long neglected to fully consider the impact of their behaviour on the environment. From excessive consumption of fossil fuels and natural resources to pollution, waste disposal, and, in more recent years, climate change, most people and institutions lack a clear understanding of the environmental consequences of their actions. The new field of behavioural environmental economics seeks to address this by applying the framework of behavioural economics to environmental issues, thereby rationalizing unexplained puzzles and providing a more realistic account of individual behaviour. This book provides a complete and rigorous overview of environmental topics that may be addressed and, in many instances, better understood by integrating a behavioural approach. This volume features state-of-the-art research on this topic by influential scholars in behavioural and environmental economics, focussing on the effects of psychological, social and cognitive factors on the decision-making process. It presents research performed using different methods and data collection mechanisms (e.g. laboratory experiments, field experiments, natural experiments, online surveys) on a variety of environmental topics (e.g. sustainability, natural resources). This book is a comprehensive and innovative tool for researchers and students interested in the behavioural economics of the environment and in the design of policy interventions aimed at reducing the human impact on the environment.
Author : Gardner Brown
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Page : 113 pages
File Size : 25,90 MB
Release : 2010
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Author : John Thøgersen
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 21,57 MB
Release : 2023-01-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1803924519
Examining the psychological and social drivers of unsustainable and sustainable consumption, this Concise Introduction provides an insightful overview of the causes of unsustainable consumer behaviour and the instruments and interventions needed to create a sustainable consumption pattern.
Author : Signe Krarup
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 16,58 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781781958209
Over the past decade there has been growing interest in the role of information in the promotion of environmentally friendly behaviour. This book examines how and why the provision of such information can affect individual decisions concerning buying or consuming a product or valuing a policy. The information can take the form of a product label or a statement in a survey questionnaire, and the decision can be what product to buy, what food to eat or how to answer a contingent valuation question. The chapters in this volume carefully explore the explanations for consumer behaviour in different scenarios where information is provided about the 'public' implications of individual decisions. The first set of chapters examines the prospects for eco-labelling as a tool of environmental policy from a variety of different perspectives. They also look at how this form of information provision compares with more familiar policy instruments in achieving efficiency goals. In the second and third sections the focus is on environmental and food labelling, in which a combination of private and public motives for purchase decisions is found. Finally, the role of information in contingent valuation surveys is considered, in particular the impact of information and time in altering stated value responses.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 40,25 MB
Release : 2010-07-09
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ISBN : 9264079661
This book examines how markets have evolved and provides insights for improved consumer policy making. It explores, for the first time, how what we have learned through the study of behavioural economics is changing the way policy makers are addressing problems.