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Visser, Mirjam (author), Schoormans, J.P.L. (author)
To reduce energy consumption of households, many appliances contain eco-settings, which when used, reduce energy consumption. However, the effectivity of the eco-settings in reducing energy consumption is hardly tested. Other design for sustainable behaviour strategies like coercion and feedback might be more effective. To test the...
journal article 2023
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de Koning, J.I.J.C. (author)
The food system in Vietnam is changing whilst the middle class is growing. Agrifood smallholders have the strengths of responding to the changing needs of the middle class by offering freshness, proximity and convenience but they also face increasing competition from larger and international firms. At the same time, issues with food safety are...
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Kranzbühler, A. (author), Schifferstein, Hendrik N.J. (author)
Eating meat can have detrimental effects on the environment, animal welfare, and a person’s health. However, consumers are often reluctant to reduce their meat consumption and public information-based awareness campaigns show little effect. As an alternative, some vegan activists and pressure groups employ emotion-based campaigns using meat...
journal article 2023
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Guillén, Georgina M. (author), Galeote, Daniel Fernández (author), Sicevic, Nevena (author), Hamari, Juho (author), Quist, J.N. (author)
Mobile apps are ubiquitous, affecting our everyday practices because “there is always an app for that”. In this vein, there have been a significant number of apps devised to support people’s lifestyles to make them more sustainable. This study aims to draw an overview of gamified mobile apps for sustainable consumption. Following a systematic...
conference paper 2022
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Wallner, T.S. (author), Snel, S. (author), Magnier, L.B.M. (author), Mugge, R. (author)
Refurbishment is an effective circular strategy to lengthen a product’s lifetime. However, refurbished products that are intimately used, such as personal care products, cause a feeling of unease in consumers because they are perceived to be contaminated. In 15 in-depth online interviews with female users of intense pulsed light (IPL) device...
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van Straten, Bart (author), Tantuo, B.N. (author), Sperna Weiland, Nicolaas H. (author), Dankelman, J. (author), Hendriks, B.H.W. (author), Horeman, T. (author)
Introduction: Disposable instruments in healthcare have led to a significant increase of medical waste. The aim of this study is to validate the recycling of disposable Zamak laryngoscope blades into new medical products by using a new ‘all-in-one’ affordable reprocessing setup as alternative for die-casting. <br/>Methods: An “all-in-one”...
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Visser, Mirjam (author), Stevels, A.L.N. (author), Schoormans, J.P.L. (author)
Although environmental awareness is increasing every year, and most people say they prefer to buy more sustainable products, many still do not act on their promise at the cash counter. Sustainable products are often still perceived to have lower quality or reduced performance. Recom- mendations of sustainable buyers might reduce this perceived...
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de Medeiros, Janine Fleith (author), Marcon, Arthur (author), Ribeiro, Jose Luis Duarte (author), Quist, J.N. (author), D'Agostin, Andressa (author)
The COVID-19 pandemic is expected to widely change how consumers evaluate market offerings. In this research, we identified consumers’ emotions on the adoption of use-oriented Product-Service-Systems (PSS) and the effect of COVID-19 on such emotions using pre- and amid-COVID-19 samples. The results indicate that positive emotions are...
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Tunn, V.S.C. (author), van den Hende, E.A. (author), Bocken, N.M.P. (author), Schoormans, J.P.L. (author)
Access-based product-service systems (AB-PSS) are business models that can potentially decouple the satisfaction of consumer needs from environmental impacts. Hence, they have been promoted for the circular economy. Their sustainability potential has not yet been realised because consumer adoption is lagging. Although this challenge has been...
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Tunn, V.S.C. (author), Bocken, N.M.P. (author), van den Hende, E.A. (author), Schoormans, J.P.L. (author)
Combining sustainable consumption with the circular economy concept could help tackle challenges, such as resource scarcity and climate change by reducing resource throughput and increasing cycling of products and materials within the economic system, thereby reducing emissions and virgin material use. To achieve sustainable consumption in a...
journal article 2019
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Visser, Mirjam (author), Schoormans, J.P.L. (author), Vogtländer, J.G. (author)
Although most people claim to prefer a more sustainable product, only a limited number of ‘green buyers’ act on their words at the moment of purchase. To find out how to get mainstream buyers to buy more sustainable products, we used data on 950 Western European buyers of 32 different vacuum cleaner models. The issue was why three out of four...
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Bocken, N.M.P. (author), Mugge, R. (author), Bom, Colin A. (author), Lemstra, Hidde-Jan (author)
Pay-per-use business models where consumers pay for the unit of service (e.g. a wash) without gaining product ownership are often linked to increased environmental performance. Consumers would become more conscious about consumption patterns and companies would take responsibility for product life cycle issues. Such benefits can only be achieved...
journal article 2018
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de Koning, J.I.J.C. (author)
Growing unsustainable consumption in Vietnam is a pressing issue, especially in urban areas. The effects of rapid economic growth, industrialization and increasing wealth in combination with a young, growing population makes that the middle class of Vietnam is on the rise. This movement within the population is making room to form and introduce...
doctoral thesis 2017
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Bocken, N.M.P. (author), Short, SW (author)
Business model innovation is an important lever for change to tackle pressing sustainability issues. In this paper, ‘sufficiency’ is proposed as a driver of business model innovation for sustainability. Sufficiency-driven business models seek to moderate overall resource consumption by curbing demand through education and consumer engagement,...
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Nilstad Pettersen, I. (author), Bakker, C.A. (author)
European ecodesign policy is currently bringing material resource efficiency into focus. This paper explores how and to what extent policy addresses sustainable consumption-related issues, and what the consequences may be for the future role of design in supporting sustainable everyday consumption. How will policy help and hinder designers and...
conference paper 2013
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Quist, J.N. (author), Wittmayer, J. (author), Umpfenbach, K. (author), Bauler, T. (author), Bach, M. (author)
On 7-8 October, the InContext project, in collaboration with the Low Carbon at Work and the CRISP projects and SCORAI Europe, convened a two-day workshop on Pathways, Transitions, Backacasting for sustainable and low-carbon lifestyles.Workshop proceedings have just become available as SCORAI workshop proceedings on the SCORAI website at http:/...
conference paper 2013
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Vercauteren, C. (author), Quist, J.N. (author), Van Bueren, E.M. (author), Veen, E. (author)
Urban agriculture is an emerging topic and it is widely argued that it has considerable potential for sustainable consumption and production. Community gardening is a promising type of urban agriculture and questions have been raised like whether it has additional benefits for sustainable lifestyles and behavior, and we can understand community...
conference paper 2013
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Da Silva Pereira, A.C. (author), Brezet, J.C. (author), Pereira, H. (author), Vogtlander, J.G. (author)
Products with long life-spans are generally preferred form an environmental perspective. This paper addresses the longevity of cork products, and the respective influencing aspects. This is accomplished through a longitudinal study where several cork products are used, and at different moments in time interviews are performed with the users...
conference paper 2012
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Alcantud, A. (author), Mazo, D. (author)
In a resource scarcity context, public bodies have a fundamental role to promote sustainable consumption patterns. In Catalonia water scarcity and organic waste management are two fields in which the public bodies put in practice their instruments in order to change the citizens’ consumption patterns and to reduce the related environmental...
conference paper 2010
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Caeiro, S. (author), Ramos, T.B. (author), Huisingh, D. (author)
Despite the diversity of tools to measure household consumption, indicators are one of the approaches with great potential, due to their communication and comprehensible easiness for non-scientific public, like families. The main objective of this research was the development of a framework to define the main steps and criteria to built...
conference paper 2010
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