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- Gineitiene, Dalia, et al.
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Public Risk Perception of Nuclear Power - The Case of Sweden and Lithuania
- 1999
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In: Social Processes and the Environment - Lithuania and Sweden. - 9172670029 ; 1999:2, s. 121-164
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The analysis is focused on attitudes towards nuclear power and public risk perceptions in Sweden and Lithuania. Recent theories of risk-society, reflexive modernization as well as social-psychological approaches are used.
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- Klintman, Mikael, et al.
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Maten märks: förutsättningar för konsumentmakt
- 2008
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Book (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- Många människor anser sig numera ha större makt i rollen som konsumenter än som medborgare som röstar i partival. Som konsumenter kan vi idag ta ställning till en rad olika anspråk som görs på produkter och tjänster. Hur ser vi konsumenter på livsmedel som genom olika märken påstås ha unika egenskaper i produktionsledet: för miljön, för konsumentens hälsa, för arbetsförhållanden för fabriks- och jordbruksarbetarna, för djurens väl och ve, eller för det egna produktionslandets välstånd? Förekommer motsättningar och konkurrens mellan olika miljö- och varumärken? Vilka aktörer har makt att vara med och bestämma om vad som ska räknas som miljövänligt, socialt rättvis eller djurvänlig produktion? Går det – om det är önskvärt – att göra den gröna och etiska konsumtionens informationsredskap mer “demokratiska”? Finns det viktiga egenskaper hos varor och produktion som måste falla utanför konsumentmakten? Dessa frågor, som alla behandlas i boken, knyter an till frågan om vilka förutsättningar konsumenter egentligen har att fatta fria och politiska beslut som även går bortom var och ens egennytta. I den allmänna samhällsdebatten ses konsumenters makt av allt fler aktörer som en central förutsättning för att miljöproblem och andra samhällsproblem ska kunna lösas. Därmed blir en ökad kunskap om konsumentmaktens förutsättningar extra betydelsefull. Boken riktar sig till studenter, forskare, myndigheter och till alla andra med intresse för samhällsvetenskap och humaniora med inrikning på konsument- och livsmedelsfrågor, samt andra livsmedelsrelaterade vetenskaper. Mikael Klintman är docent och universitetslektor vid Forskningspolitiska institutet, Lunds universitet. Magnus Boström är docent, lektor och forskare vid institutionen för livsvetenskaper, Södertörns Högskola. Lena Ekelund är fil dr i nationalekonomi och docent i trägårdsvetenskap med ekonomisk inriktning vid Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet i Alnarp. Anna-Lisa Lindén är professor vid sociologiska institutionen, Lunds universitet.
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- Lindén, Anna-Lisa, et al.
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Private Food Strategies and Political Consumerism
- 2005
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In: Political Consumerism: Its motivations, power, and conditions in the Nordic countries and elsewhere.. - 9289311290 ; 517, s. 203-224
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- A number of policy instruments are used in order to provide consumers healthy products produced in a proper way as regards environmental impacts. The policy instruments are mainly directed to enterprises and companies producing products. Such actors are often addressed in terms of laws or regulations and represent different actors in a production chain. Policy instruments and the way they are used in Product Policy Chains will be discussed theoretically and from empirical examples. The government often uses a vertical policy chain in the communication process with actors in the process. Consumers, the end users, are often addressed by informational instruments, e.g. pamphlets, campaigns, content declarations or labelling. However, consumers reliance in food products can vary for several reasons. They may dislike the price, the quality, the labelling process and organisation or the food products for ethical reasons. Consumer power can be activated for some or several of these reasons. Two types of consumer power will be discussed and analysed namely the individualised power of consumers, e.g. buying resistance, and secondly the collectivistic power of consumers, relying on an ideology, which can be ethical, e.g. animals rights movements. Consumer power and influence can be performed on a local, national or global level. Consumer strategies in purchasing behaviour and influencing the market will be analysed concerning reliance on products, use of information and labelling. This is a pilot study aimed at formulating a frame of concepts to be used in analysis of consumer power and political consumerism. Statistical databases and a number of in-depth interviews with environmentally concerned consumers, vegans and vegetarians is used as an empirical base.
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- Lindén, Anna-Lisa, et al.
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The Formation of Green Identities - Consumers and Providers.
- 2003
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In: Individual and Structural Determinants of Environmental Practice.. - 0754632172 ; , s. 66-90
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Liberalisation and deregulation of public utility sectors has been introduced in several European countries. In 1994 Swedish municipalities were instructed to reorganise waste collection routines by enlarging the number of fractions to be able to reuse waste fractions in an environmental benign way. The public waste sector have to a considerable extent been diversified and deregulated. At the same time their clients, the households, are supposed to accept and take part in the enlarged sorting activities. There has to be a close relation between providers and consumers to get everything running in a proper order. The electricity sector was deregulated in 1997. Even before that date some Energy Companies had begun to diversify their supply of electricity. Wind power energy was labelled as environmentally benign. Although green electricity plays a minor role in the supply of energy from all energy companies in Sweden it has played an important role in marketing and labelling firms to be aware of the environment. The “invisible” good green electricity could at least in mental processes be separated from grey electrons. Consumption of public utilities electricity and waste collection are necessary goods and services in every household in modern societies. There is no possibility to enlarge the stock of consumers as it can be on a free market. The companies in a deregulated electricity and waste collection market are extremely dependent on consumer attitudes to and credibility in their company to keep them and to win new clients from competing firms. Product and tariff differentiation (PTD) functions as measures for providers to establish a green identity visible for consumers in their evaluations of the provider image. The relation between provider and consumer established through product and tariff differentiation is not only an economic relation but includes as well ecological, environmental and social aspects. The relation is a sophisticated network of shared advantages and disadvantages in creating green images and green identities related to public consumption of visible services, waste collection, and invisible goods like electricity. Relations between providers and consumers in establishing their green identities and green images and the functional aspects of product and tariff differentiation will be analysed theoretically. The empirical analysis relies on interviews with providers and consumers within the waste and electricity sectors in Sweden, The Netherlands and United Kingdom.
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