Information Rx: Prescribing Good Consumerism and Responsible Citizenship

The Politics of Ethical Consumerism: Citizenship between Individualisation and Participation

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From consumerism to citizenship: a journey of involvement

The level of interest in sustainability, amongst the general public and within the media, is growing week by week, giving rise to initiatives from numerous stakeholders, public and private, to inform, educate and facilitate behaviour change at the level of individual households – customers and final consumers. In this paper we argue that in order to achieve this behavioural change, the ‘sustain...

Beyond Green Consumerism: Uncovering the Motivations of Green Citizenship

Individual behavior change is a necessary condition for making a positive societal transition to a resourceconstrained future. Because we live on a planet with finite resources, behavior change interventions need to move beyond creating “green consumers” and instead foster and support “green citizens.” Green consumerism has proven largely ineffective in curbing collective rates of consumption; ...

Citizenship and Impression Management: Good Soldiers or Good Actors?

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Big pharma and good corporate citizenship.