信息消费与可持续消费

2007年11月25-26日,全国第十一次消费经济理论与实践研讨会在深圳召开。会议由深圳市消费者委员会、深圳大学经济学院承办。会议的主题为"消费和谐与全面建设小康社会"。八十多位领导、专家、学者出席了这次会议。与会专家、学者围绕会议主题展开了热烈的讨论,并提交论文近百篇。这里选登部分发言与论文(下一期续登)。     

责任消费：潮人“IN”主张

如今的消费者,已经越来越理性、冷静。责任消费意识不但大幅提高,也正越来越成为年轻人崇尚的时尚生活方式。＂在市场上,责任消费者正成为企业股东以外的与企业命运生死攸关的两大利益集团之一。＂责任消费者选择购买或者不购买某一产品都是对生产者的一种积极的信息传递。     

消费主义与可持续消费--从物本主义到人本主义

消费主义是一种炫耀性与挥霍性的大众化的高消费，它是物本主义的表现，是不可持续的。人本主义倡导人与自然的和谐_也处，可持续消费是可持续发展的关键，是以人本主义为导向的。坚持人本主义就要坚持可持续消费，反对和批判消费主义。     

Sustainable Consumption Behavior in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Conceptual Framework

This paper develops a conceptual framework for investigating the adoption patterns, inhibitors, and facilitators (PIF) of sustainable consumption in sub-Sahara African (SSA) settings. Literature evidence shows paucity of empirical studies on sustainable consumption from SSA, which partly explains lack of suitable conceptual framework to guide research in this area. Also, the existing frameworks, which were developed outside SSA may not be suitable for constructing sustainable consumption behavior in SSA because of its peculiarities. The key significance of this article is the potential of providing future researchers in this area with a framework to guide and manage their studies. As a conceptual article, insight was drawn from a plethora of scholarly articles in the domain of sustainable consumption and related areas. The framework is built on four key constructs—adoption patterns, inhibitors, facilitators (PIF), and intention. As a guide for studies from the SSA, the article includes an empirical section, which provides preliminary empirical validation for the proposed PIF conceptual framework based on a pilot test. The result from the pilot study, using structural equation modeling (SEM), led to positing the PIF Sustainable Consumption model, thus giving support for the PIF Conceptual Framework, which this article puts forward. In addition, the proposed PIF conceptual framework is capable of providing insight for crafting sustainability-related policies. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

基于消费行为视角的可持续消费分析

消费与环境的可持续性存在密切关系，改变消费过程已被认为是朝向可持续发展的重要步骤，消费行为及其驱动力影响可持续消费的实现。本文基于消费行为理论视角，用一个综合方法构建了一个可持续消费模型，探讨了可持续消费的本质，并指出其政策意义。     

Toward Sustainable Consumption: Two New Perspectives

The article is an integrative, theoretical paper addressing the problem of sustainable consumption. It provides the insights of two conceptual frameworks on the conditions for and limits to sustainable consumption. Existing consumer research on environmental issues is reviewed. It is argued that consumer research is not focusing on the right issues in this area and that a trans-disciplinary approach is called for. Frameworks from materials balance economics and evolutionary theory are presented and applied to recreational consumption. Three major areas are identified in which consumer research could contribute to the presented frameworks, and to the theory and practice of sustainable consumption.     

可持续消费——绿色乌托邦?

在我们对中小企业做社会责任理念推广的时候，经常碰到一个令人尴尬的问题：“我们做的是可持续产品，可是我们的产品比那些廉价劣质的产品难卖多了”。怀着一腔热血，更为了营造可持续产品的良好市场环境，我们尝试协助他们推广可持续产品，倡导可持续消费，每每和业内人士交流，第一反应是“好事情”，接下来就是“不好做”；事实也确实如此。我们和方方面面的人士交流过，大家给的定义就是“难以实现的好事情”。其实，可持续消费和企业社会责任一样，相当多的消费者在现实中有着很多的具体行为，只不过很多被冠以节约消费或者奢侈消费。     

Companies Promoting Sustainable Consumption of Employees

Activities aimed at promoting sustainable consumption need to be introduced into everyday settings, as sustainable consumption behaviour needs to become part of daily living. Therefore it is worthwhile reflecting on social settings where consumption plays a minor role, but where people nonetheless learn and experience new attitudes and behaviours. The workplace is an important focal point of adults’ daily routines. This paper examines companies’ role in promoting sustainable consumption of their employees.     

Sustainable Supply Chains: Governance Mechanisms to Greening Suppliers

One of the key challenges for firms is to manage sustainability along the supply chain. To extend sustainability to suppliers, organizations have developed different governance mechanisms. The aim of this paper is to analyze the effectiveness of two different mechanisms (i.e., supplier assessment and collaboration with suppliers) to improve one dimension of sustainability: environmental performance. Structural Equation Modeling and cluster analysis were used to analyze the relationships between supplier assessment, collaboration with suppliers, and environmental performance. The results suggest that (1) both mechanisms, supplier assessment and collaboration with suppliers, have a positive and synergistic effect on environmental performance, and (2) assessment acts as an enabler of collaboration. Finally, the paper also contributes to the literature by providing a framework of sustainability governance mechanisms.     

代际公平原则与可持续消费博弈

动态效用的不一贯性问题表明了消费者主权的代际公平问题的复杂性,但借助于互动公平博弈理论,我们可以在主体理性选择的基础上构建一个可持续消费模型。只要当代利益主体能看到代际公平的效用价值,可持续消费的均衡状态就可以实现。     

Endorsing Sustainable Food Consumption: Prospects from Public Catering

The aim of this article was to analyse an attempt to promote sustainable consumption by shaping the conditions for consumption. In particular, the focus lies on sustainable public catering as an approach to shaping both the supply of and demand for sustainable meals. In order to capture the processes of governing consumption, the way is traced in which rationalities (ways of thinking and calculating), technologies (means and instruments), visibilities (concrete manifestations), and identities (types of agents assumed) related to a policy intervention for sustainable public catering are interpreted and recreated by three main groups of actors involved: policy makers, catering professionals, and consumers. This analysis highlights the active role of practitioners in realizing policies for sustainable consumption. It has implications for policy makers and analysts: Reflexive policies should heed to actors’ unfolding interpretations as they can take the policy process in different directions.     

The Internet and Sustainable Consumption: Perspectives on a Janus Face

In the industrialized world, Internet use has grown exponentially to become a global communication and business resource. For the time being, both theoretical and empirical research on consumption and the Internet are still in their infancy. This paper discusses the possible influence of the Internet on sustainable consumption. In absence of a solid empirical data base, the approach is a conceptual one. The paper investigates the role of the Internet in the development of consumption patterns and lifestyles, looks at the Internetös role in developing public awareness of environmental and social issues, and discusses its potential contribution to support strategies for sustainable consumption such as sufficiency, efficiency, consistency, and political consumption. It concludes with implications for consumer policy and questions for further research.     

Smart Homes as a Means to Sustainable Energy Consumption: A Study of Consumer Perceptions

European and national policies are aimed at reducing greenhouse gases and increasing energy efficiency—also in the household sector. For this purpose, new solutions for private homes based on information and communication technologies (ICT) are being developed and tested. However, up to now, hardly anyone has seen, experienced or lived in an environment that offers the full range of ICT-based energy management solutions. In this study, consumer reactions to a fully furnished and equipped smart home are analysed using focus groups (four groups with a total of 29 participants). The analysis looks at consumer perceptions of and reactions to an energy management system which optimizes electricity consumption based on different ICT solutions. The topics that were demonstrated in practice and then discussed with the participants included variable tariffs, smart metering, smart appliances, and home automation. In general, there were positive group reactions to the smart home environment. Consumers saw many advantages for themselves; especially the chance to save money. However, giving up high levels of flexibility and adapting everyday routines to fit in with electricity tariffs were regarded as difficult. Smart appliances and smart meters were therefore considered to be necessary elements by most participants. Concerns regarding data privacy played a major role in one of the groups.     

农村居民食物消费的可持续发展

农村居民食物消费的可持续发展不仅决定着农村居民的健康水平 ,还决定着农村居民食物消费的可持续性。通过对我国农村居民食物消费的合理性分析 ,提出了农村居民食物消费的合理选择和可持续发展对策。     

Marketing Sustainable Consumption within Stores: A Case Study of the UK's Leading Food Retailers

Sustainable consumption is a core policy objective within the UK Government's Sustainable Development Strategy and there is a growing awareness that retailers have a vital role to play in promoting more sustainable patterns of consumption. This article explores how the UK's top ten food retailers are communicating sustainable consumption agendas to their customers within stores in the towns of Cheltenham and Gloucester. The findings reveal that while these retailers are providing customers with some information on sustainable consumption the dominant thrust of marketing communication within stores is designed to encourage consumption. The article concludes with some reflections on how sustainable consumption fits into the large food retailers' business models.     

Discursive Confusion over Sustainable Consumption: A Discursive Perspective on the Perplexity of Marketplace Knowledge

This paper works towards a discursive, practice-based perspective on explaining the “knowledge-to-action” gap observed in the consumer policy literature on sustainable consumption. Based on an empirical study that focuses on fashion and clothing markets, the objective is to elaborate on the nature and implications of the discursive polyphony that consumers face when striving for more sustainable consumption practices. Overall, it is concluded that part of the gap can be attributed to the discursive confusion that arises from a simultaneous existence of multiple, continuously changing and partly clashing discourses of sustainable consumption as well as the associated discursive struggle that consumers need to deal with when trying to make sense of their roles and responsibilities in sustainable development.     

Educating for Sustainable Fashion: Using Clothing Acquisition Abstinence to Explore Sustainable Consumption and Life Beyond Growth

This paper reports outcomes from a research study whereby fashion-oriented students experienced life where the ability to acquire new clothing was removed. Students volunteered to participate in this experiential learning challenge, titled the Fashion Detox: to abstain from clothing acquisition for 10 weeks and reflect about the experience. This learning experience was characterized by barriers to sustainable consumption, chief among them a range of temptations prompted by inescapable merchandising and marketing strategies, compulsive tendencies, and envy of those who could consume with impunity. Students also indicated many benefits to abstaining from acquisition, such as creativity and self-regulation. This teaching and learning experiment has important implications for the challenges faced by educators who must engage fashion-oriented students in sustainability topics and how these may be navigated.     

NAFTA与墨西哥玉米:预期与实际效果的比较分析

墨西哥是玉米的故乡。NAFTA将墨西哥的玉米进口许可证制度转化为关税配额制度,并在15年内逐步取消。墨西哥在NAFTA期间的实践表明,NAFTA对墨西哥玉米部门的预期效果并未完全实现,其原因包含政策变革等多方面因素。