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The carbon‐conscious‐consumer? A causal model for the product carbon footprint of asparagus at the consumer stage
Author(s) -
Lampert Paul,
Soode Eveli,
Menrad Klaus
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
international journal of consumer studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.775
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1470-6431
pISSN - 1470-6423
DOI - 10.1111/ijcs.12177
Subject(s) - carbon footprint , asparagus , sustainability , component (thermodynamics) , structural equation modeling , product (mathematics) , environmental economics , econometrics , environmental science , business , mathematics , economics , statistics , greenhouse gas , ecology , physics , geometry , biology , thermodynamics
Tools to measure climate impacts, such as a product carbon footprinting (PCF), have gained increasing attention in recent years. Our study shows that it is possible to develop a valid structural equation model for a PCF for the example of the use phase of asparagus on the basis of empirical data generated by a panel survey. The parameters considered in the model are environmental and sustainability‐related attitudes, sociodemographics and a technical component. The results show that the age of the technical component has effect on the PCF, an older technical component having an increasing impact, while a high degree of environmental concern has a decreasing effect.