Due to increasing health consciousness among consumers, there is an ever-growing demand for food and beverages with health-improving components. Not only 'light' and low fat products are in demand, but increasingly so-called well-being products and food which can prevent certain diseases. The...

The replacement of appliances and other energy using products by more effi-cient ones is generally regarded as an effective strategy to reduce energy de-mand. However, the savings realized by this strategy may be lower than those theoretically expected or calculated from a technological point of...

The goal of this exploratory research is to identify attributes that can distinctly characterize iPad and examine the predictive power of iPad attributes, lifestyles, media dependency, and demographics on adoption of iPad, iPad usage patterns and intensity of iPad usage. Using a snowballing...

Demographic and economic growth will account for most of the anticipated growth in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the next century. Education is associated with development, and the world population in the near future is likely to be significantly better educated than today. Previous studies...

This paper estimates carbon emission from household consumption and investigates its determinants. We derive total household carbon emission by using the mechanism of input-output analysis combine with household expenditure for 2005 and 2006. Our estimation shows that fuel and light followed by...

This paper discusses consequences of changing economic conditions and job characteristics for individual behaviour by means of addiction. The central assumption is that unwanted high consumption of health damaging goods leads to an income loss. If an individual has decided on his consumption...

Die Verbesserung der Energieeffizienz von Produkten und Dienstleistungen wird allgemein als effektive Strategie angesehen, um den heutigen Energieverbrauch zu reduzieren und energie- und klimapolitische Ziele zu erreichen. Die tatsächliche Reduktion des Energieverbrauches kann jedoch aufgrund...

We investigate if pluralistic consumption styles (like frugality, or indulgence in luxuryʺ) can be identified and are correlated with different terminal values and if values and consumption styles prove to be stable or can be changed by drastic events. The results of two polls (before and after...