Household Sustainable Consumption Intention

Sustainable household consumption and quality of life: the acceptability of sustainable consumption patterns and consumer policy strategies

A multidisciplinary computer-based field study among 393 Dutch households examined how people judge the ‘social’ sustainability (quality-of-life effects) of ‘environmentally’ sustainable household consumption patterns (less energy-use demanding) and associated policy options. The study revealed that about two -thirds of the households had to reduce their direct and indirect energy use within th...

Social Factors Affecting on Sustainable Gas Consumption (Household Subscribers of Mazandaran Province)

Purpose of this study was to investigate the sustainability of domestic gas consumption and identify the social factors that affect it. Three questions were asked in this study. 1) How stable is the gas consumption practice at home? 2) What are the elements that affect gas consumption as a sustainable practice?3) What solutions can be offered to increase gas consumption sustainability? After re...

The Sustainable Management of Household

Empowering Sustainable Consumption

E nvironmental policy once focused only on producers: the relatively few business enterprises that needed to clean up their smokestacks and sewage outfalls. While important, emphasis on producers hasn’t been enough to stem the tide of environmental degradation, because many of the worst insults come from consumption activities, not production. Consumption-related problems are large and growing,...

Sustainable Consumption Indicators

1. The Building Blocks 1.1. An Evolving Global Consumer Culture 1.2. What is the Problem with Consumption? 1.3. Getting to the Point... 1.4. What is Sustainable Consumption? 1.5. Why Develop Indicators? 1.6. Integrating the Two Themes 2. In The Beginning, There Were Seventeen 2.1. Indicators for Key Resources 2.1.1 Energy 2.1.2. Materials, Material Flows and Waste 2.1.3. Water 2.1.4. Land 2.2. ...