Overview
Surveys show again and again that, when it comes to sustainable (or ""green"") behavior, people who talk the talk often don't walk the walk. Why does this attitude-behavior gap exist and how can we close it? This book brings together a large number of divergent scientific disciplines and theoretical approaches to address and explain the multiple selves that drive the attitude-behavior discrepancy in consumer demand for sustainability.
Full Product Details
Author: Hans C.M. van Trijp (Wageningen University, The Netherlands) ,
Hans C.M. Van Trijp
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Psychology Press Ltd
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.521kg
ISBN: 9781848729889
ISBN 10: 184872988
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 07 January 2014
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Environmental sustainability is one of the most critical issues of our time. This book offers insights from behavioral science that can help us to understand how we got into this predicament, and what strategies can help us to achieve a more sustainable future. This is an important and timely book. -Wesley Schultz, Ph.D., California State University San Marcos
Environmental sustainability is one of the most critical issues of our time. This book offers insights from behavioral science that can help us to understand how we got into this predicament, and what strategies can help us to achieve a more sustainable future. This is an important and timely book. -Wesley Schultz, Ph.D., California State University San Marcos This book is a highly inspiring collection of papers on the issue why people may not act in a sustainable way, even though they acknowledge the importance of doing so. Drawing on a wide range of perspectives from psychology and adjacent social science disciplines, it is convincingly shown why we cannot expect people to behave in a sustainable way just because we tell them to. -Klaus G. Grunert, Ph.D., Aarhus University, Denmark
Author Information
Hans C. M. van Trijp holds the Chair of Marketing and Consumer Behavior at Wageningen University and is part-time Lead Scientist in Consumer Behavior at Unilever R&D in the Netherlands. His scientific work focuses primarily on the extent to which consumer behavior theory can be exploited to inform marketing strategies to enhance sustainable consumer behavior. He was the Scientific Director within the Dutch innovation program Transforum in the area of mobilizing consumer demand for sustainable products and services. He has published extensively in the marketing, consumer psychology, and food domains. He is a member of the editorial boards of the International Journal of Research in Marketing and Food Quality and Preference and chairs the Food and Consumer working group within the European Technology Platform Food for Life with the aim to leverage the research agendas between industry and governments across Europe.
