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Framing Sustainable Consumption in Different Ways: Policy Lessons from Two Participatory Systems Mapping Exercises in Hungary

Kiss, Gabriella ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5817-9037, Pataki, György, Köves, Alexandra and Király, Gábor (2017) Framing Sustainable Consumption in Different Ways: Policy Lessons from Two Participatory Systems Mapping Exercises in Hungary. Journal of Consumer Policy .

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Abstract

Sustainable consumption as a complex phenomenon at the boundaries of different (ecological, economic, social) systems requires theoretical approaches that do justice to its complex causality and dynamism. Participatory systems mapping offers a tool to achieve this purpose. Its policy relevance lies in its ability to include diverse views, multiple actors, and offer options for policy intervention. The research reported here applied participatory systems mapping in order to define and identify system boundaries for sustainable consumption and uncover perceived causal relationships among the determining factors of sustainable consumption. By revealing the mental models of an expert and a conscious consumer panel on sustainable consumption in general, we can shed light on the cognitive constructions of sustainable consumption and identify most important boundaries that were chosen and their implications on policy-making. The expert panel framed the boundaries as lack of sustainable consumption, while the conscious consumer panel employed a positive framing as strong communities in sustainable consumption. The two panels also differed in their focus on scale: Experts targeted the national scale, while conscious consumers concentrated at the local scale.

Item Type:Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:participatory systems mapping, policy intervention, sustainable consumption, Hungary
Divisions:Faculty of Business Administration > Institute of Business Economics > Department of Decision Sciences
Subjects:Decision making
Ecology
ID Code:3092
Deposited By: Ádám Hoffmann
Deposited On:24 Oct 2017 14:44
Last Modified:11 Oct 2021 07:47

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