Papers by Lucia A . Reisch
Digitalization and Sustainability: A Call for a Digital Green Deal
Environmental Science & Policy
The relation between digitalization and environmental sustainability is ambiguous. There is poten... more The relation between digitalization and environmental sustainability is ambiguous. There is potential of various digital technologies to slow down the transgression of planetary boundaries. Yet resource and energy demand for digital hardware production and use of data-intensive applications is of substantial size. The world over, there is no comprehensive regulation that addresses opportunities and risks of digital technology for sustainability. In this perspective article, we call for a Digital Green Deal that includes strong, cross-sectoral green digitalization policies on all levels of governance. We argue that a Digital Green Deal should first and foremost aim at greater policy coherence: Current digital policy initiatives should include measures that service environmental goals, and environmental policies must address risks and advance opportunities of digital technologies to spur sustainability transformations.
GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 2016
While the field of sustainable consumption research is relatively young, it has already attracted... more While the field of sustainable consumption research is relatively young, it has already attracted scholars from all corners of the social sciences. The time has come to identify a new research agenda as trends in sustainable consumption research seem to suggest the dawning of a new phase. Not only does research need to be guided, but sustainable consumption policymaking, too, involving best practices around the application of standard and more innovative instruments.
Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021
Demand-side policies for mitigating climate change based on behavioral insights are gaining incre... more Demand-side policies for mitigating climate change based on behavioral insights are gaining increased attention in research and practice. Here we describe a systematic map that catalogues existing research on behaviorally informed interventions targeting changes in consumer food consumption and food waste behavior. The purpose is to gain an overview of research foci and gaps, providing an evidence base for deeper analysis. In terms of food consumption, we focus on animal protein (meat, fish, dairy, and eggs) and its substitutes. The map follows the standards for evidence synthesis from the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence (CEE) as well as the RepOrting Standards for Systematic Evidence Syntheses (ROSES). We identified 49 articles including 56 separate studies, as well as 18 literature reviews. We find a variety of study designs with a focus on canteen and restaurant studies as well as a steep increase of publications since 2016. We create an interactive evidence atlas that plots these studies across geographical space. Here, we find a concentration of research in the Anglo-Saxon world. Most studies follow multi-intervention designs and focus on actual food consumption behavior, fewer on food waste behavior. We identify knowledge clusters amenable for a systematic review focusing on the effectiveness of these interventions, namely: priming, disclosure, defaults, social norms, micro-environment changes, and ease of use. The systematic map highlights knowledge gaps, where more primary research is needed and evidence cannot support policy; it identifies knowledge clusters, where sufficient studies exist but there is a lack of clarity over effectiveness, and so full synthesis can be conducted rapidly; finally, it reveals patterns in research methods that can highlight best practices and issues with methodology that can support the improvement of primary evidence production and mitigation of research waste. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first systematic study mapping this specific area.
Book Notes Law, Economics, and Social Sciences 1/2023
Journal of Consumer Policy
Michael-Burkard Piorkowsky (2023): Hybride Ökonomische Akteure und Organisationen. Anomalien, Normalität oder Artefakte – Eine Annäherung. (transl., Hybrid Economic Actors and Organizations. Anomalies, Normality, or Artefacts – An Approach). Springer Gabler, 241 pages, 39.99 EUR
Journal of Consumer Policy
Dietary Behaviour in Children, Adolescents and Families: The Eating Habits Questionnaire (EHQ)
Instruments for Health Surveys in Children and Adolescents, 2018
The Eating Habits Questionnaire (EHQ) was used in the IDEFICS and I.Family studies to investigate... more The Eating Habits Questionnaire (EHQ) was used in the IDEFICS and I.Family studies to investigate dietary behaviour, family food environments and the frequency of consumption of food items likely to be associated with overweight and general health in children, teenagers and adults. This chapter describes the rationale for developing the EHQ, as well as its methodological basis and structure. The children’s version (Children’s Eating Habits Questionnaire, CEHQ) is completed by a proxy reporter (usually a parent), on behalf of a child aged 2–11 years. The teenager’s version (Teenagers’ Eating Habits Questionnaire, TEHQ) is a self-reporting instrument for persons between 12 and 18 years. The adult version (Adult’s Eating Habits Questionnaire, AEHQ) is a self-reporting instrument for respondents of 19 years and over. Most of the questions and the overall structure are closely similar in the three versions. The novelty of the EHQ is that it is a brief instrument assessing simultaneously a few dimensions of eating habits of children, teenagers and adults from the perspective of obesity-related food patterns. The EHQ has been tested and validated in eight culturally diverse European populations that participated in the IDEFICS and I.Family studies. It is expected to be useful in future studies concerned with obesity in children and their families.
Food labelling as a response to political consumption
Routledge Handbook on Consumption, 2017
How can Behavioral Economics Inform Policy Making in food and Public Health Issues
Verbrauchergerechtes Scoring: Gutachten des Sachverständigenrats für Verbraucherfragen
Behavioural Public Policy, 2017
The study of human behaviour is important within many disciplinary specialties and in recent year... more The study of human behaviour is important within many disciplinary specialties and in recent years the fi ndings from this fi eld have begun to be applied to policy concerns in a substantive and sustained way. BPP seeks to be multidisciplinary and therefore welcomes articles from economists, psychologists, philosophers, anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, primatologists, evolutionary biologists, legal scholars and others, so long as their work relates the study of human behaviour directly to a policy concern. BPP focuses on high-quality research which has international relevance and which is framed such that the arguments are accessible to a multidisciplinary audience of academics and policy makers.
Sustainable Food Systems, 2016
As one of the latest cities to join CCD, Leicester is already taking steps to reduce diabetes pre... more As one of the latest cities to join CCD, Leicester is already taking steps to reduce diabetes prevalence in its communities. CCD and Leicester Changing Diabetes research alerted Leicester's City Council to the need to develop a City Food Plan, capable of giving residents better food options in the future, and choices that will keep them healthy and help drive down the high pre-diabetes rates that Leicester faces.
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017
Nudges are choice-preserving interventions that steer people's behaviour in specific directions w... more Nudges are choice-preserving interventions that steer people's behaviour in specific directions while allowing people to go their own way. Some nudges have been controversial, because they are seen as objectionably paternalistic. This study reports on nationally representative surveys in eight diverse countries, investigating how people actually think about nudges and nudging. The study covers Australia,
This research project analyses the potential of nudges in the area of sustainable consumption foc... more This research project analyses the potential of nudges in the area of sustainable consumption focusing on ecological consumption. Nudges are regulatory instruments based on insights from psychology and behavioral economics and are applied to achieve behavior change. In the present report, the concept is defined first. Then, nudges are contextualized in ecological consumer policy. Subsequently, examples are derived from a systematic literature review. This is followed by a criteria-based, stepwise selection of nudges aiming at a deeper analysis and potential application. The selection criteria are the costbenefit ratio of the measure, the legal transferability to Germany, and the acceptance with consumers. The final five good practices belong to the application areas "building and living", "mobility", and "nutrition". Based on discussions at a multi-stakeholder workshop, these nudges are further refined. Finally, concrete implementation scenarios are pro...
Appetite, 2019
* This version of the article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review bu... more * This version of the article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the publisher's final version AKA Version of Record.
Wirtschaftsdienst, 2020
Verbessert digitales Nudging die Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik? Im September 2019 kamen V... more Verbessert digitales Nudging die Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik? Im September 2019 kamen Verbraucherforscherinnen und-forscher im Wissenschaftszentrum Bonn zu einem Forum des Netzwerks Verbraucherforschung zusammen. Ziel dieses Forums war es, gemeinsam mit dem Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) verschiedenen Aspekten der Datensicherheit und der Privatheit nachzugehen. So wurde debattiert, inwieweit Anbieter digitales Nudging einsetzen, um Entscheidungen der Nutzer in Hinblick auf Datensicherheit und "Privacy" zu beeinfl ussen. Aber auch die Politik kann digitales Nudging anwenden, um Verbrauchern diese Problematik bewusst zu machen. In diesem Zeitgespräch dokumentieren wir die Beiträge der Vortragenden.
Verbraucherleitbild : Differenzieren, nicht diskriminieren!
Prof. Dr. Andreas Fehler & Prof. Dr. Lucia A. Reisch SVRV Worin Paper Nr. 1 April 2016
Etude du projet de recherche sur le critere ethique-economique (EOR) defini par le groupe de trav... more Etude du projet de recherche sur le critere ethique-economique (EOR) defini par le groupe de travail interdisciplinaire de l'universite de Francfort, reuni sous la specificite de l'ethique de la technique. Definissant l'evolution de la technique et de l'economie en termes de processus social, l'A. etablit un arbre des valeurs pour mesurer la compatibilite naturelle, la compatibilite sociale et la compatibilite culturelle des produits et des moyens de production de l'entreprise
Compulsive Buying as a Consumer Policy Issue in East and West Germany
Consumers, Policy and the Environment A Tribute to Folke Ölander, 2005
Page 1. Chapter 5 COMPULSIVE BUYING AS A CONSUMER POLICY ISSUE IN EAST AND WEST GERMANY Michael N... more Page 1. Chapter 5 COMPULSIVE BUYING AS A CONSUMER POLICY ISSUE IN EAST AND WEST GERMANY Michael Neuner, Gerhard Raab and Lucia A. Reisch Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences and University of Hohenheim, Germany ...
Journal of Consumer Policy, 2011
European consumer policy—coupled with the European Economic Constitution and European consumer la... more European consumer policy—coupled with the European Economic Constitution and European consumer law—is based on an assumption of rational-acting consumers and suppliers and is deeply rooted in the information paradigm. The information paradigm indicates that asymmetric information can be an impediment to welfare-enhancing consumer decision making. To improve the position of the consumer in markets, regulated information on products and services
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