@article{WosBorghoffHorvatetal.2022, author = {Wos, Karolina and Borghoff, Lisa Marie and Horvat, Andrijana and Paoletti, Flavio and Saggia Civitelli, Eleonora and Rembiałkowska, Ewa}, title = {Preliminary Analysis of Voluntary Information on Organic Milk Labels in Four European Union Countries}, series = {Sustainability}, journal = {Sustainability}, editor = {Bacenetti, Jacopo}, publisher = {MDPI}, doi = {10.25974/fhms-15698}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:836-opus-156981}, pages = {1 -- 18}, year = {2022}, abstract = {The concern for the environment among European consumers is growing and in the future the need for sustainable shopping is expected to increase. Through transparent on-packaging communication with consumers, organic producers have the opportunity to show attributes of organic production system and build a strong market position. The aim of the study was to analyse voluntary packaging information on organic milk from four European markets in the context of organic food quality, i.e., Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and Poland. More specifically, the textual content of 106 organic milk packages was analysed and voluntary information on each package was categorized according to process- and product-related organic milk attributes. The assortment and content of voluntary packaging information varied across the four countries. The largest number of products was found on the German market (37) and the smallest on the Polish market (14). Dutch milk had the greatest amount of voluntary information on animal welfare, product locality, environmental protection, quality confirmation, naturalness and nutritional value. German milk had the most information on enjoyment and conditions of processing, while the Italian milk on the social perspective. The products available on the Polish market had the least voluntary information. Pasteurized organic milk had noticeably more information about organic quality attributes than micro filtrated and UHT milk.}, language = {en} } @techreport{WeidlichBuxel2010, author = {Weidlich, Tina and Buxel, Holger}, title = {Werben mit dem guten Zweck - Akzeptanz karitativer Marketingkonzepte: Ergebnisse einer empirischen Untersuchung am Beispiel Krombacher Regenwaldprojekt und der Aktion Gesundheit f{\"u}r Kinder in Afrika von Actimel/Danone}, publisher = {FH M{\"u}nster}, doi = {10.25974/fhms-81}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:836-opus-810}, year = {2010}, abstract = {Mit der steigenden Wichtigkeit von Nachhaltigkeitsaspekten f{\"u}r die Konsumenten gewinnen in j{\"u}ngster Zeit zunehmend Marketingkonzepte an Bedeutung, die an den Produktverkauf die Unterst{\"u}tzung karitativer Projekte koppeln. Krombacher zeigt Engagement f{\"u}r den Regenwald, Danone/Actimel f{\"u}r die Kinder in Afrika, Procter\&Gamble/Wick f{\"u}r den Lebensraum der Eisb{\"a}ren. Projekte mit karitativem Hintergrund und werben mit dem guten Zweck sind im Trend. Doch wie werden solche Projekte und Marketingkampagnen von Seiten der Konsumenten bewertet? Wie glaubw{\"u}rdig sind diese und haben sie ein positives Kampagnenprofil? Und existiert ein Wunsch von Seiten der Konsumenten nach mehr solcher karitativen Marketingkonzepten? Um diese Fragen zu beantworten, wurde im Sommer/Herbst 2009 eine Befragung von 482 Konsumenten durchgef{\"u}hrt.}, subject = {Marketing}, language = {de} } @article{TukkerCohendeZoysaetal.2008, author = {Tukker, Arnold and Cohen, Maurie and de Zoysa, Uchita and Hertwich, Edgar and Hofstetter, Patrick and Inaba, Atsushi and Lorek, Sylvia and Sto, Eivind}, title = {The Oslo Declaration on Sustainable Consumption}, series = {Journal of Industrial Policy}, volume = {10}, journal = {Journal of Industrial Policy}, number = {1-2}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:836-opus-106389}, pages = {9 -- 14}, year = {2008}, abstract = {Actual initiatives to cultivate more sustainable modes of consumption have not materialized and there are indications that an implementation gap is becoming manifest. Research must begin to systemically integrate initiatives to promote improvements in quality of life, to distinguish long-term structural consumption trends, and to identify the social mechanisms and cultural aspects of consumer behavior and household decision making.}, language = {en} } @article{TrottaSpangenbergLorek2018, author = {Trotta, Gianluca and Spangenberg, Joachim and Lorek, Sylvia}, title = {Energy efficiency in the residential sector: identification of promising policy instruments and private initiatives among selected European countries}, series = {Energy Efficiency}, volume = {December 2018, vol. 11}, journal = {Energy Efficiency}, number = {8}, doi = {10.1007/s12053-018-9739-0}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:836-opus-104617}, pages = {2111 -- 2135}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Improving residential energy efficiency is widely recognized as one of the best strategies for reducing energy demand, combating climate change and increasing security of energy supply. However, progress has been slow to date due to a number of market and behavioural barriers that have not been adequately addressed by energy efficiency policies and programmes. This study is based on updated findings of the European Futures for Energy Efficiency Project that responds to the EU Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2014-15 theme 'Secure, clean and efficient energy'. This article draws on five case studies from selected European countries - Finland, Italy, Hungary, Spain, and the UK - and evaluates recent energy efficiency developments in terms of indicators, private initiatives, and policy measures in the residential sector. Our analysis shows that the UK government has implemented a better range of policies, coupled with initiatives from the private sector, aimed at improving energy efficiency. However, its existing conditions appear to be more problematic than the other countries. On the other hand, the lack of effective and targeted policies in Finland resulted in increased energy consumption, while in Hungary, Spain and Italy some interesting initiatives, especially in terms of financial and fiscal incentives, have been found.}, language = {en} } @techreport{TeitscheidRohn2011, author = {Teitscheid, Petra and Rohn, Holger}, title = {Resource productivity for higher education in food and nutrition}, publisher = {FH M{\"u}nster}, doi = {10.25974/fhms-475}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:836-opus-4751}, year = {2011}, abstract = {Sustainability is a central issue in food business and food retailing since approximately 3 years (See Teitscheid 2011). Various influential factors are significant for this development. On the one hand consumers choices are changing (See GFK et al. 2009). They are looking for natural, good and healthy food; they have a longing for home and an intact world (See iSuN 2010). The image of a highly efficient, but often ruthless industrial food production in regards to mankind and nature is not appropriate here. On the other hand, raw materials are scarce and, thus, very valuable. Bad harvests, mostly interpreted as a result of climate change, worldwide increasing consumption and the production of food in favor of energy production instead of nutritional aims, lead to a re-evaluation of agricultural resources and their producers. Within this context, food industry is searching for new forms of cooperation and partnership along the value chain in order to secure their resource basis. In the light of their significant environmental impact, an increasing number of companies also start to work on the environmental assessment and optimization of their products and value chains. Therefore they need employees with valid knowledge and competencies in sustainability and resources management. Based on this demand, the master's program "Sustainable Services and Nutrition Management" started in 2009 in the University of Applied Sciences in M{\"u}nster (Germany)1. This text reports about how the topic of resource efficiency in food/nutrition industry has been integrated within the study program, which projects have been worked on and what experience could be gained from them.}, subject = {Hochschulbildung}, language = {en} } @article{SpangenbergLorek2019, author = {Spangenberg, Joachim and Lorek, Sylvia}, title = {Sufficiency and consumer behaviour: from theory to policy}, series = {Energy Policy}, volume = {129, June 2019}, journal = {Energy Policy}, doi = {10.1016/j.enpol.2019.03.013}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:836-opus-104648}, pages = {1070 -- 1079}, year = {2019}, abstract = {It is increasingly obvious that for safeguarding environmental sustainability, eco-efficiency measures will need to be complemented by sufficiency, in particular by strong sustainable consumption. The Theory of Planned Behaviour TPB and Social Practice Theory SPT offer different views on consumer behaviour, and on ways to change it. This paper briefly describes the challenges, discusses the applicability of both theories and their meaningfulness for policy recommendations. We suggest an approach combining results of both bodies of theory, complemented by ideas from political economy, to substantiate the Prism of Sustainable Consumption we introduce as a heuristic sufficiency policy tool. It is useful to identify affordability criteria for change in each dimension, as the basis for deriving suggestions for effective policy interventions. We conclude that (i) effective interventions are possible, (ii) they have to address several dimensions of affordability simultaneously, and (iii) the sufficiency policy space prism can be a useful tool in structuring planned interventions.}, language = {en} } @article{SpangenbergLorek2022, author = {Spangenberg, Joachim H. and Lorek, Sylvia}, title = {Who cares (for whom)}, series = {Frontiers in Sustainability}, journal = {Frontiers in Sustainability}, publisher = {Frontiers Media}, doi = {10.25974/fhms-16067}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:836-opus-160675}, year = {2022}, language = {en} } @article{SpangenbergLorek2001, author = {Spangenberg, J. H. and Lorek, S.}, title = {Sozio-{\"o}konomische Aspekte nachhaltigkeitsorientierten Konsumwandels}, series = {Aus Politik und Zeitgeschiche, Beilage zur Wochenzeitung „Das Parlament"}, journal = {Aus Politik und Zeitgeschiche, Beilage zur Wochenzeitung „Das Parlament"}, number = {8. Juni 2001}, doi = {10.25974/fhms-774}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:836-opus-7741}, year = {2001}, abstract = {Um die Rolle des Haushaltskonsum bei einer nachhaltigen Produktions- und Konsumweise bewerten zu k{\"o}nnen, ist eine neue Methodik jenseits der g{\"a}ngigen volks- oder hauswirtschaftlichen Ans{\"a}tze notwendig. Umweltindikatoren und Akteursmatrizen erlauben eine Absch{\"a}tzung des Beitrags der Haushalte zur Umweltbelastung. Auch im Rahmen integrierter Nachhaltigkeitsstrategien kommt dem Konsum ein hoher Stellenwert zu, in Verbindung mit anderen zentralen Handlungsfeldern und ihren Instrumenten. Bei den derzeitigen Konsummustern erh{\"o}ht Wohlstand die Umweltbelastung, aber nachhaltiger Konsum kann auch zu Wohlfahrtgewinnen f{\"u}hren.}, language = {de} } @article{SpangenbergLorek2001, author = {Spangenberg, J. H. and Lorek, S.}, title = {Indicators for environmentally sustainable household consumption}, series = {Int. J. Sustainable Development}, volume = {4}, journal = {Int. J. Sustainable Development}, issn = {0960-1406}, doi = {10.25974/fhms-776}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:836-opus-7764}, pages = {101 -- 120}, year = {2001}, abstract = {The objective of this paper is to identify those areas of consumption, in which private households can make significant contributions to environmental sustainability, and to present a transparent and comprehensive set of indicators for them. The analysis of the environmental impacts of households focuses on consumption clusters that permit to depict different life spheres of private households. Two criteria guided the investigation of the relevance of these clusters: · The significance of the consumption cluster, and · The potential influence of households. Resource consumption was chosen as simplified, but reliable representation of environmental pressure dynamics. Growing resource consumption goes together with growing environmental pressures and vice versa, although not necessarily proportionally. The key resources analysed are energy and material consumption, and land use. Based on this analysis, three priority fields for action by households were identified: construction and housing, food/nutrition and transport (in this order). All other consumption clusters can be considered environmentally marginal, providing combined saving potentials of less than 10\% of the total resource consumption. Finally, from description of the respective roles of actors based on anecdotal evidence a semi-quantitative "actor matrix" is presented indicating the relative influence of different actors per consumption cluster.}, language = {en} } @article{SpangenbergLorek2002, author = {Spangenberg, J. H. and Lorek, S.}, title = {Environmentally sustainable household consumption: from aggregate environmental pressures to priority fields of action}, series = {Ecological Economics}, volume = {43}, journal = {Ecological Economics}, number = {2-3}, doi = {10.25974/fhms-777}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:836-opus-7775}, pages = {127 -- 140}, year = {2002}, abstract = {Unsustainable consumption patterns of the North (or rather of the global affluent consumers class) have been identified by Agenda 21 as one of the key driving forces behind the unsustainable development. However, neither accounting based on the system of national accounts SNA nor household economics provide the proper instruments to assess the environmental impact of household decision making. Eco-efficiency assessments as familiar in the business sector provide no appropriate tool for households. As an alternative an environmental space based assessment scheme is suggested covering the major pressures on the environment caused by household decisions. The methodology is used twice: once to analyse the environmental relevance of the main activity clusters of household consumption and once to identify the dominant acts of consumption within each cluster. The latter provide the basis for deriving environmental performance indicators. A rough analysis of household influence potentials permits to identify housing, eating and mobility as the three priority fields for action for minimising the environmental impact of households. Extending the influence analysis actor matrixes are derived allocating influence and thus responsibility for environmental pressures to different groups of economic agents.}, language = {en} }