In light of the re-evaluation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this timely Companion adopts an interdisciplinary approach to provide key insights on important topics, including sustainable food consumption and the mitigation of food waste.
Bringing together a diverse array of prominent scholars in the field, the book combines theoretical discussion with practical applications, considering how consumer behaviour shapes our world, especially when trying to achieve the SDGs. The book highlights that, as our global community faces urgent challenges such as climate change, poverty and inequality, understanding how people make choices and their impact is crucial.
The Elgar Companion to Consumer Behaviour and the Sustainable Development Goals is a fundamental resource for scholars, researchers and students of business management, organisational behaviour, development studies, management and sustainability, social psychology, and behavioural and experimental economics. Practitioners and policymakers in the fields of sustainable consumption and production, food policy, and sustainable development policy will also find the book’s practical insights to be of benefit.
Contents
Preface xv
Acknowledgements xvii
PART I FOUNDATIONS
1 Advancing sustainable consumption: SDG 12, behavioural science, and
the work of the United Nations 2
Aiswarya Sunil, Mary MacLennan, and Lucia A. Reisch
2 Sustainable consumption in history: water, energy, waste and mobility 18
Heather Chappells and Frank Trentmann
PART II POLICIES FOR SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION
3 Promoting sustainable consumer behaviour with sustainability labelling 40
John B. Thøgersen
4 Education for sustainable development and sustainable consumption:
the role of sufficiency 55
Maike Gossen and Ulf Schrader
5 Consumer wisdom and the UN Sustainable Development Goals 72
Michael Luchs
6 Fat and green taxation, inequalities and consumer response 90
Elena Benedetti, Beatrice Biondi, Sara Capacci and Mario Mazzocchi
PART III REGULATION AND THE LAW
7 Disclosure rules and educational background 104
Christine Jolls
8 AI and climate: challenges for regulation 127
Philipp Hacker and Amelie Sophie Berz
9 The legal production of meat eaters 147
Lisa Heinzerling
10 Achieving zero hunger: using behavioural insights and contractual
regulation for the achievement of UN SDG 2 164
Kai P. Purnhagen
11 Bright side and dark side of the moon: consumer rights and
responsibilities under EU law 174
Hans-W. Micklitz
PART IV FOCUS ON FOOD
12 Nudging for more sustainable and healthy food choices:
a dual-processing approach with a time perspective 189
Klaus G. Grunert and Sophie Hieke
13 Sustainable food for all: challenges and potentials of the German public
catering sector 203
Benjamin Hennchen and Martina Schäfer
14 Consumer behaviour change and market transition towards plant-rich eating 222
Jessica Aschemann-Witzel and Maartje Wurzer-Mulders
15 Sustainable food consumption: behavioural drivers and barriers 235
Meike Janssen and Wencke Gwozdz
16 Contributions of food waste interventions assessed in a citizen science project 257
Nina Langen and Mariam Nikravech
17 Unveiling Argentina’s meat demand 270
María Victoria Ortiz and Cecilia Reyna
PART V SHIFT, AVOID, IMPROVE, AND NUDGE
18 The value of repair in the light of SDG 12: using latent profile analysis
to identify consumer repair types in Germany 286
Hannah Tamara Maurer, Vita Eva Maria Zimmermann, and Peter Kenning
19 Same same, but sustainable: the impact of digital recommendations on
sustainable fashion consumption 313
Marlene Münsch, Jana Diels, Hannah Horschke, and Christian Thorun
20 Sustainable consumption and production in the sports sector: a case
study on designing cricket gear for the circular economy 340
Lilian Sanchez-Moreno and Martin Charter
21 Employer-based short-term savings accounts 355
Sarah Holmes Berk, John Beshears, Jay Garg, James J. Choi, and David Laibson
22 Sustainable finance and the Sustainable Development Goals:
a nudge-resistant zone? 383
Ellen Quigley
23 Culture and investment decisions: how cultural finance may support the
United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals 398
Haili Wu
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