Within the environmental social sciences, theories of practices are used by an increasing
number of authors to analyze the greening of consumption in the new, global order of …

Food is increasingly traded internationally, thereby transforming the organization of food
production and consumption globally and influencing most food-related practices. This …

The roles that individuals can adopt, or get assigned, in processes of global environmental
change, can be analyzed with the help of three ideal-type forms of commitment: as …

Purpose–This paper aims to quantify the relative importance of reasons used to explain
consumers' selection and rejection of ethical products, accounting for differences in ethical …

With the rebirth of environmental concern among social scientists in the 1960s and 1970s,
scholars initially were preoccupied with explaining environmental devastation. Their central …

A major driver of global environmental challenges is our current food system. More
sustainable practices on the supply side depend on pressure from the demand side: Every …

At present, food may come ready-to-eat (through microwave or steam oven) and organic,
can be bought in processed and packed form in the supermarket or obtained unprocessed …

Food retailers are powerful actors of the agro-industrial food system. They exert strong lock-
in effects that hinder transitions towards more sustainable agri-food systems. Indeed, their …

A transition to a more sustainable diet likely requires substituting proteins of animal origin
with alternatives like plant-based foods. Yet consumers are not regularly consuming …

This article elaborates an explanatory framework for the role of consumption practices in
transitions to (enhanced) sustainability in the food system. To develop an applied practice …