TY  - JOUR
A1  - Spangenberg, Joachim
A1  - Lorek, Sylvia
T1  - Sufficiency and consumer behaviour: from theory to policy
JF  - Energy Policy
N2  - 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.
KW  - dimensions of affordability
KW  - Theory of Planned Behaviour TPB
KW  - Social Practice Theory SPT
KW  - Prism of Sustainable Consumption
KW  - sufficiency policy options
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:836-opus-104648
UR  - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421519301764
VL  - 129, June 2019
SP  - 1070
EP  - 1079
ER  -