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We empirically study personal norms of sustainability, conceptualized according to the normactivation theory and … operationalized under the notion of strong ecological-economic sustainability, for commercial cattle farmers in semi-arid rangelands … sustainability that are heterogeneous across farmers, but vary little with socio-demographic or environmental characteristics. We …
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This paper focuses on how consumer motivation can be tapped in order to encourage the adoption of cleaner technologies. Consumers are heterogeneous they may be guided by intrinsic motivation or extrinsic motivation. While information provision policies (such as the energy label for cars) may be...
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We perform a model analysis to study the origins of limited resilience in ecological-economic systems. We demonstrate that the resilience properties of the ecosystem are essentially determined by the management institutions and consumers' preferences for ecosystem services. In particular, we...
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We empirically study personal norms of sustainability, conceptualized according to the norm-activation theory and … operationalized under the notion of strong ecological-economic sustainability, for commercial cattle farmers in semi-arid rangelands … sustainability that are heterogeneous across farmers but vary little with socio-demographic or environmental characteristics. We find …
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Consumers have become environmentally conscious, they are keen on energy efficiency and the increasing importance of the environmental values in general has made this research relevant. We analyse the special elements of eco-marketing so that we can see which are the tools and marketing...
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We investigate some motivations of recycling, using Italian survey data. We find that people declaring an interest in environmental issues or belonging to an environmental association are more likely to recycle. This suggests that the motivations for behaving pro-environmentally have an...
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Nowadays, many global challenges such as climate change, food security, health, industrial restructuring, and energy conservation may be solved by applying the principles of bioeconomy. Adequately implementing the principles of Bioeconomy ensures a transition from a fossil-based economy to a...
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