TY - JOUR A1 - Spangenberg, Joachim H. A1 - Lorek, Sylvia T1 - Who cares (for whom) JF - Frontiers in Sustainability Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:836-opus-160675 PB - Frontiers Media ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Borghoff, Lisa Marie A1 - Strassner, Carola A1 - Herzig, Christian T1 - Organic Juice Processing Quality from the Processors’ Perspective: A Qualitative Study JF - foods N2 - Organic food quality is based on processing. While the EU organic production regulation focuses on agricultural production, private standards provide more detailed information about further processing. For the development of organic processing, practitioner perspectives can provide valuable input. To get insight into practitioner perspectives, we conducted semi-structured expert interviews with nine employees of seven partly organic juice processing companies from Germany and Austria. Interview topics were (i) quality of organic juice processing in general, (ii) assessment of specific processing techniques, (iii) product quality of organic juice and (iv) flow of information between producer and consumer. We conducted a thematic analysis. We found that the experts’ understanding of process quality mostly includes more aspects than the EU organic production regulation. It covers the whole food chain plus aspects of social and environmental sustainability. The experts prefer directly bottled juice of local raw materials but chiefly accept juice made from concentrate of exotic raw materials because of environmental concerns. Organic juice is preferred when it is cloudy and natural fluctuations are interpreted as an indicator of natural quality. The experts report that consumer information is challenging because of low food literacy. Raising this might help reduce the number of processed juices on the market. KW - organic food processing KW - organic food quality KW - juice processing KW - expert interviews KW - Germany Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:836-opus-156994 SP - 1 EP - 18 PB - MDPI ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Borghoff, Lisa Marie A1 - Strassner, Carola A1 - Herzig, Christian T1 - Processors' understanding of process quality: a qualitative interview study with employees of organic dairies in Germany and Switzerland JF - British Food Journal N2 - Purpose: Organic food processing must include organic principles to be authentic. This qualitative study aims to understand the processors' understanding of organic food processing quality. Design/methodology/approach: This study is based on semi-structured expert interviews with eight employees of six purely or partly organic dairies from Germany and Switzerland. Interview themes are (1) quality of organic milk processing in general, (2) assessment of specific processing techniques, (3) product quality of organic milk and (4) flow of information between producer and consumer. The interviews have been audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim and thematically analysed. Findings: (1) Experts prefer minimal processing; some prefer artisanal processing, whilst others stress the advantages of mechanisation. (2) High temperature short time (HTST) pasteurisation and mechanical processing techniques are accepted; ultra-high-temperature (UHT) milk processing is partly rejected. (3) Traditional taste and valuable ingredients should be present in the final product. Natural variances are judged positively. (4) Consumers' low level of food technology literacy is challenging for communication. Research limitations/implications: The results cannot be generalised due to the qualitative study design. Further studies, e.g. qualitative case analyses and studies with a quantitative design, are necessary to deepen the results. Practical implications: The paper shows which processing technologies experts consider suitable or unsuitable for organic milk. The paper also identifies opportunities to bridge the perceived gap between processors' and consumers' demands. Originality/value: The study shows the challenges of processors in expressing the processors' understanding of process quality. KW - organic milk processing KW - quality perception KW - expert interviews KW - qualitative text analysis Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:836-opus-157019 SN - 0007-070X SP - 1 EP - 32 PB - Emerald Publishing ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Spangenberg, J. H. A1 - Lorek, S. T1 - Sozio-ökonomische Aspekte nachhaltigkeitsorientierten Konsumwandels JF - Aus Politik und Zeitgeschiche, Beilage zur Wochenzeitung „Das Parlament“ N2 - Um die Rolle des Haushaltskonsum bei einer nachhaltigen Produktions- und Konsumweise bewerten zu können, ist eine neue Methodik jenseits der gängigen volks- oder hauswirtschaftlichen Ansätze notwendig. Umweltindikatoren und Akteursmatrizen erlauben eine Abschätzung 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 erhöht Wohlstand die Umweltbelastung, aber nachhaltiger Konsum kann auch zu Wohlfahrtgewinnen führen. Y1 - 2001 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:836-opus-7741 IS - 8. Juni 2001 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Spangenberg, J. H. A1 - Lorek, S. T1 - Indicators for environmentally sustainable household consumption JF - Int. J. Sustainable Development N2 - 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. KW - Sustainability KW - Indicators KW - Key resources KW - Actors centred approach KW - Material Flows Y1 - 2001 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:836-opus-7764 SN - 0960-1406 VL - 4 SP - 101 EP - 120 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Gardemann, Joachim T1 - Primary Health Care in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies: Rwanda and Kosovo Experiences and Their Implications for Public Health Training T2 - Croatian Medical Journal N2 - In a complex humanitarian emergency, a catastrophic breakdown of political, economic, and social systems, often accompanied by violence, contributes to long-lasting dependency of the affected communities on external service. Relief systems such as the Emergency Response Units of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies have served as a sound foundation of field work in humanitarian emergencies. The experiences gained in 1994 and 1999 in the Rwanda and Kosovo emergencies clearly point to the need for individual adjustments of therapeutic standards to preexisting morbidity and health care levels within the affected population. In complex emergencies, public health activities have been shown to promote peace, prevent violence, and reconcile former enemies. In all public health training for domestic or foreign service, a truly democratic and multiprofessional approach will serve as good pattern for field work. Beyond the technical and scientific skills required in the profession, however, political, ethical, and communicative competences are critical in humanitarian assistance. Because of the manifold imperatives of further public health education for emergency assistance, a humanitarian assistance competence training center is proposed. By definition, competence training centers focus on the core competences required to meet future needs, are client-oriented, connect regional and international networks, rely on their own system of quality control and maintain a cooperative management of knowledge. Public health focusing on complex humanitarian emergencies will have to act in prevention not only of diseases and impairments but of political tension and hatred as well. KW - Nothilfe KW - Katastrophe KW - Kosovo KW - Ruanda KW - primary health care Y1 - 2002 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:836-opus-4561 VL - 43 IS - 2 SP - 148 EP - 155 PB - University of Zagreb, School of Medicine ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fuchs, D. A1 - Lorek, S. T1 - Sustainable Consumption Governance in a Globalizing World JF - Global Environmental Politics 2:1, February 2002 N2 - The influence of globalization on the sustainability of consumption is a frequent topic in academic and political debates. Despite this, the scientific understanding of this influence and, even more so, of the consequences for governance strategies in pursuit of sustainable consumption are still weak. In this paper, we therefore inquire into the specific channels of the influence of globalization on the sustainability of consumption. Based on our analysis, we develop guidelines for sustainable consumption governance. Y1 - 2002 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:836-opus-7754 IS - 2:1, February 2002 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Spangenberg, J. H. A1 - Lorek, S. T1 - Environmentally sustainable household consumption: from aggregate environmental pressures to priority fields of action JF - Ecological Economics N2 - 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. KW - Sustainable consumption KW - Consumption clusters KW - Environmental space KW - Indicators KW - Land use Y1 - 2002 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:836-opus-7775 VL - 43 IS - 2-3 SP - 127 EP - 140 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Spangenberg, J. H. A1 - Lorek, S. ED - Koschützke, Albrecht T1 - Lebensqualität, Konsum und Umwelt: intelligente Lösungen statt unnötiger Gegensätze N2 - Wer will nicht ein gutes Leben für sich und ein besseres für seine Kinder? Der Begriff Lebensqualität fasst zusammen, was Menschen als gutes Leben anstreben. Er ist nicht einfach zu definieren, denn die Wünsche und Vorlieben der Menschen sind vielfältig. Eine bessere Lebensqualität beinhaltet auch eine gesunde Natur und Umwelt. Doch wie viel Natur- und Umweltschutz braucht eine bessere Lebensqualität und wann wird Umweltschutz (subjektiv oder objektiv) lästig und beeinträchtigt die Lebensqualität? Y1 - 2003 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:836-opus-7785 SN - 3–89892–165–4 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Lorek, S. A1 - Lucas, R. T1 - Towards Sustainable Market Strategies - A Case Study on Eco-textiles and Green Power T2 - Wuppertal Papers N2 - This study focuses on the economic, market-related context of consumption patterns and incorporates the regulatory settings and values. The aim is to systemise the influences on sustainable consumption patterns. Special attention is drawn to the question how existing niche markets could be extended to mass markets. This question is deepened by case studies on the green textile and the green power markets. The results emphasise the different key factors which influence the successful pathways for an extended green market volume. Looking at the case of the green power market it can be seen how important it is to create an economic and institutional context for adoption. Looking at the case of green textiles the importance of new lifestyles and cultural impacts are obvious. Looking at the interfaces between institutional settings, supply structure, societal values and consumers' decision-making, it can be seen that consumers' demands are not only a product of individual needs. Therefore sustainable consumption strategies will have to face not only the change of needs, but also the change of structures which influence individual choices. N2 - Diese Studie konzentriert sich auf den ökonomischen, marktbezogenen Kontext nachhaltiger Konsummuster unter Berücksichtigung von staatlicher Regulierung und gesellschaftlichen Werten. Eine besondere Aufmerksamkeit wird der Frage gewidmet, wie bestehende Nischenmärkte erweitert werden können. Am Beispiel der Märkte für umweltfreundliche Textilien und umweltfreundliche Energie werden vertiefend die Erfolgsbedingungen für eine Markterweiterung untersucht. Als ein wichtiges Ergebnis kann festgehalten werden, dass unterschiedliche Einflussfaktoren für den Erfolg in den untersuchten Märkten verantwortlich sind. Das Wachstum der umweltfreundlichen Energiebereitstellung kann vor allem mit den veränderten Rahmenbedingungen erklärt werden, während das Marktsegment umweltfreundlicher Textilien vor allem durch Lebensstile und kulturelle Einflüsse geprägt wird. Betrachtet man die Schnittstellen zwischen institutionellem Rahmen, Angebotsstrukturen, gesellschaftlichem Wertewandel und den Entscheidungen der Konsumenten systematisch, so wird deutlich, dass Konsumentscheidungen nicht nur auf individuellen Bedürfnissen beruhen. Von daher ist es für eine Strategie des nachhaltigen Konsums wichtig, nicht nur auf die Veränderung von Bedürfnissen zu zielen, sondern auch die Strukturen zu verändern, die individuelle Entscheidungen beeinflussen. Y1 - 2003 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:836-opus-7797 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10419/49107 SN - 0949-5266 VL - 130 ER -