Sustainable/ethical Consumption

In this paper, the authors explore the oftentimes controversial philosophy of sustainable development. The potential implications of this philosophy for marketing practitioners are examined. Specific focus is placed on the pioneering efforts of the European Union and on multinational companies doing business in Europe.

consommations et (sur)productions. Modalités, narrations et trajectoires du Congrès des associations francophones de science politique et de l'Association Belge Francophone de Sciences Politiques. 07-09 avril 2021 (en ligne) 1 Projet Actions collectives, engagements de proximité et gestion des déchets (AGIRE) financé par la Région Centre. La région Centre présente la spécificité d'être gouvernée par une alliance entre le parti socialiste et les écologistes. Le conseil régional a été à l'origine de plusieurs initiatives liées à la transition écologique en lien avec la nouvelle compétence régionale sur la planification dans le domaine des déchets. https://agire.msh-vdl.fr 2 Deux agglomérations de tailles similaires (un peu moins de 300 000 hab.) qui ont aujourd'hui le statut administratif de Métropole. 3 Le concept de ressourcerie est porté au Québec par des groupes environnementaux et communautaires de Montréal pour la première fois en 1991 (Vaillancourt et al., 1999).

Are there virtues that constitutively involve using certain concepts? Does it make sense to speak of rights or duties to use certain concepts? And do consequentialist approaches to concepts necessarily have to reproduce the difficulties that plague utilitarianism? These are fundamental orientating questions for the emerging field of conceptual ethics, which invites us to reflect critically about which concepts to use. In this article, I map out the ways in which conceptual ethics might take its cue from virtue-ethical, deontological, and consequentialist traditions of ethical thought while also flagging the main challenges facing each approach. I end by sketching how the various dimensions of evaluation singled out by these three traditions might be combined in a single approach.

Several widespread approaches to Education for Sustainable Consumption (ESC) have emerged from the tradition of consumer information. A major shortcoming of such cognitive-focused approaches is their limited capacity to facilitate reflection on the affective processes underpinning people’s engagement with consumption. More holistic pedagogies are thus needed to increase the effectiveness of ESC. The concept of mindfulness has recently received growing attention in research on sustainable consumption, given its potential to address both cognitive and affective processes and to stimulate reflection on the drivers of often routinized consumption practices. Despite this recent interest, mindfulness has to date not been systematically connected to ESC. This paper provides a reflexive case study of the development of mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) specifically tailored to ESC (“BiNKA-training”). It elaborates the conceptual connections between mindfulness and ESC, offers insights in...

Background and problem statement…………………………………………………1 1.2. Aim and rationale of study…………………………………………………………….5 1.3. Chapter layout…………………………………………………………………………..7 Chapter two: Exploring the concept of corporate crisis management…………………9 2.1. Introduction……………………………………………………………………………...9 2.2. The state of crisis management in the South African corporations……………..10 2.3. Conceptualising the concept of corporate crisis management…………………..13 2.4. The stages of corporate crisis management……………………………………….15 2.4.1.

Collectors are major actors in the global art market as they often spend large sums of money fostering the business. Concerning sustainable collecting practices—i.e., the balance between what is the best for people and for the environment—collectors’ actions seem contradictory. Firstly, ontologically, to collect is to accumulate artworks; secondly, art—the object of the collectors’ desire—and the global art world are not closely aligned with the climate crisis. The art ecosystem encourages trips to participate in art events worldwide, increasing the carbon footprint impact, and rarely uses recycled materials, causing waste. The economic model of the art market lacks sustainability, raising the question: how can we promote a sustainable collecting attitude? In this exploratory study, we will observe art market players, especially the Iberian Peninsula collectors’ actions, in terms of their contribution to reducing the environmental impact of purchases. Based on data, reports, interviews, and published sources, we will investigate collectors’ awareness of the subject and evaluate their adopted actions. As, to date, no analysis has been carried out on the trends of Iberian collecting in the field of climate sustainability, we have focused our study on finding data from the primary source par excellence: the collectors themselves. The aim is to fuel the need for a paradigm shift, concluding on a slow collecting attitude.

This article aims to raise the effects of governance and ignorance in conflicts generation worldwide. The approach here is qualitative and based on a constructivist design. This conceptual research is grounded on a documentary analysis and some observations of conflictual situations in different contexts. The results show that governance when mixed with ignorance could have some negative effects such as conflictual situations. Thus, it is suggested that good governance and appropriate knowledge about both reactive diplomacy and preventive diplomacy could help towards conflicts mediation through a good leadership. This paper has an original value in revealing the link between bad governance and conflicts and by providing the implementation of some mechanisms that could help solve conflictual situations.

Several widespread approaches to Education for Sustainable Consumption (ESC) have emerged from the tradition of consumer information. A major shortcoming of such cognitive-focused approaches is their limited capacity to facilitate reflection on the affective processes underpinning people’s engagement with consumption. More holistic pedagogies are thus needed to increase the effectiveness of ESC. The concept of mindfulness has recently received growing attention in research on sustainable consumption, given its potential to address both cognitive and affective processes and to stimulate reflection on the drivers of often routinized consumption practices. Despite this recent interest, mindfulness has to date not been systematically connected to ESC. This paper provides a reflexive case study of the development of mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) specifically tailored to ESC (“BiNKA-training”). It elaborates the conceptual connections between mindfulness and ESC, offers insights in...

Social media offers an accessible option for health education and experience sharing, yet may expose users to health mis-information. As cannabis legalization gains wider acceptance across most U.S. states, many people are turning to social media to find information about cannabis. We interviewed cannabis retail staff (budtenders) about their emerging professional role identities and use of social media for cannabis education and information. Semi-structured interviews were conducted via remote video chat from March 2021-February 2022, a period when social exchange was primarily online in response to COVID precautions, but many cannabis dispensary retail spaces were allowed to operate face-to-face as essential businesses. We asked participants about their social media habits, evaluation of trustworthiness of content, and its applicability to customer interactions. Interviews were transcribed and analyzed using thematic analyses. Budtender participants (ages 22-65, 78% female) expressed tension in evaluating cannabis social media information with respect to discerning commercial advertising vs. educational knowledge sharing intents. Several budtenders served as content creators for their dispensaries. Trust was placed in brands and creators with known histories within the cannabis economy and with relationships that were brokered in face-to-face contexts. Budtenders would prefer education based in scientific research, but it is not found on social media easily. Major barriers to quality educational content on social media is due to restrictive and opaque content moderation of cannabis content.

This article aims to raise the effects of governance and ignorance in conflicts generation worldwide. The approach here is qualitative and based on a constructivist design. This conceptual research is grounded on a documentary analysis and some observations of conflictual situations in different contexts. The results show that governance when mixed with ignorance could have some negative effects such as conflictual situations. Thus, it is suggested that good governance and appropriate knowledge about both reactive diplomacy and preventive diplomacy could help towards conflicts mediation through a good leadership. This paper has an original value in revealing the link between bad governance and conflicts and by providing the implementation of some mechanisms that could help solve conflictual situations.

The increase in children’s consumption of ‘adult’ fashions leads to concerns about the disappearance of childhood and sexualizing children at younger ages. The purpose of this conceptual paper, which also includes a pilot study in Italy, is to discuss these concerns and arguments and to provide guidelines for future research. We explored the role of fashion consumption in disappearance of childhood and reconstitution of youth through a discourse analysis about girls’ clothing preferences and the related ambiguities of age, sexuality and identity. Analysis of secondary data, current happenings, and observations imply that aging and sexualizing youth can signify agency and desire of young girls to be mature and independent but it can also be a consequence of different socializing agents, such as marketing institutions, market manipulations, and family dynamics. Our literature review and results of the pilot study further reveal that the topic has macro implications and importance.