How to promote sustainable living? Inspiring experiences of Dutch downshifters
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Enabling Responsible Living. ed. / Ulf Schrader; Vera Fricke; Declan Doyle; Victoria W. Thoresen. Berlin; Heidelberg: Springer, 2013. p. 31-46.
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T1 - How to promote sustainable living?
T2 - Inspiring experiences of Dutch downshifters
AU - Schreurs, Jeanine
AU - Martens, Pim
AU - Kok, Gerjo
PY - 2013/7/1
Y1 - 2013/7/1
N2 - Sustainable and responsible living requires far more than the consumption of eco-friendly and fair trade products. It is the joint outcome of the three pillars of the Dutch Triple G model of sustainable living: geld (money), groen (eco-friendliness), and gezondheid/welzijn (health and well-being). This approach integrates the interests of the environment, personal finance and well-being/health. It provides an effective guiding principle by showing, first, how to identify the distinctive features of sustainable living, and second, how to implement behavioural change. There are strong indications that lifestyle change is a real possibility, as is shown by recent empirical data on downshifting in the Netherlands, and demonstrated by other studies on this topic. But change is only possible if a variety of measures is taken simultaneously. This requires a concerted strategy which addresses not only the micro level of individual consumer behaviour, but also includes institutional and organizational interventions.
AB - Sustainable and responsible living requires far more than the consumption of eco-friendly and fair trade products. It is the joint outcome of the three pillars of the Dutch Triple G model of sustainable living: geld (money), groen (eco-friendliness), and gezondheid/welzijn (health and well-being). This approach integrates the interests of the environment, personal finance and well-being/health. It provides an effective guiding principle by showing, first, how to identify the distinctive features of sustainable living, and second, how to implement behavioural change. There are strong indications that lifestyle change is a real possibility, as is shown by recent empirical data on downshifting in the Netherlands, and demonstrated by other studies on this topic. But change is only possible if a variety of measures is taken simultaneously. This requires a concerted strategy which addresses not only the micro level of individual consumer behaviour, but also includes institutional and organizational interventions.
KW - Sustainability Science
KW - Behavioural change
KW - Consumer study
KW - Downshifting
KW - Sustainable living
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84929861322&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-22048-7_4
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-22048-7_4
M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
AN - SCOPUS:84929861322
SN - 978-3-642-22047-0
SP - 31
EP - 46
BT - Enabling Responsible Living
A2 - Schrader, Ulf
A2 - Fricke, Vera
A2 - Doyle, Declan
A2 - Thoresen, Victoria W.
PB - Springer
CY - Berlin; Heidelberg
ER -