Objective: The objective of the article is to examine the causality between material well-being indicators of all the EU-27 countries and sustainable consumption behaviour indicators of the corresponding consumers. The authors assumed that the material well-being construct is determined by net...

This paper develops a comprehensive measure of household economic well-being. The "sustainable consumption" concept accounts for income, assets, debt, transfer payments, and asset returns to estimate a consumption path that balances resources with expenditure over a household's lifetime....

Die Themen Lebensstile und Umweltverhalten haben, jedes für sich, während der vergangenen Jahre zunehmendes Interesse in den Sozialwissenschaften der Industrieländer gefunden. Der vorliegende Beitrag ist unter dem Eindruck entstanden, daß nun auch eine Kombination beider Themen, als...