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{"title":"The role of biodiversity in consumer research on food: A review and research agenda","authors":"Deborah Schneider ,&nbsp;Sanja Osieja ,&nbsp;Carsten Herbes ,&nbsp;Ramona Weinrich","doi":"10.1016/j.clrc.2025.100362","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.clrc.2025.100362","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The move towards sustainable consumption has drawn significant attention from scholars and practitioners alike. Biodiversity is an integral part of environmental sustainability and food security, but it has received little attention in consumer research. Findings are fragmented into how biodiversity as a product attribute affects consumer food choices. Thus, we conducted a systematic literature review on consumer research on biodiversity in the context of food choice. We reviewed 45 papers published between 2014 and March 2025. Our analysis was guided by the TCCM (Theories, Contexts, Characteristics, and Methodology) framework for developing a systematic literature review. We examined how biodiversity was conceptualized and defined within the studies and towards study participants. Our findings show that biodiversity as a product attribute generally has positive effects on consumer attitude, willingness to pay, and product choice. However, knowledge about biodiversity and the inherent trade-offs in product choices remains limited, so consumers cannot realistically factor biodiversity into their decision-making. We find that research has taken a narrow view of biodiversity, qualitative studies are rare, and few efforts have been made to build theoretical perspectives from empirical data. We conclude with a proposed agenda for future research and a tentative definition of biodiversity for social science.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34617,"journal":{"name":"Cleaner and Responsible Consumption","volume":"19 ","pages":"Article 100362"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145614233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The hidden cost of textiles production","authors":"Richard Cabrera-Jiménez ,&nbsp;Amalia Gallardo-Llamas ,&nbsp;Gonzalo Guillén-Gosálbez","doi":"10.1016/j.clrc.2025.100325","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.clrc.2025.100325","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The textile industry plays a key role in the global economy, with global sales amounting to 878 billion USD. Yet, the global environmental footprint of this sector and the associated socio-economic impact are poorly understood. Here we conduct a cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment (LCA) to quantify the environmental footprint of nine different fibers and their externalities costs, i.e., the cost of environmental impacts. We find that the global externalities cost of textiles production could amount to as much as 923 billion USD, representing 85–400 % of the corresponding textile production cost. Damage on human health and ecosystems are found to be the main drivers of externalities, while the fiber and fabric production steps are the main contributors towards them. Our prospective analysis based on future trends in socio-economic systems shows that the expected decarbonization of the electricity mix could reduce the carbon footprint of the textile industry, while increasing ecosystem damage. Moreover, future income growth and a higher expected demand would result in an increase in overall externalities of ca. 200 %. Our results highlight the need to shift to more sustainable textile production patterns, which could bring economic in addition to environmental benefits.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34617,"journal":{"name":"Cleaner and Responsible Consumption","volume":"19 ","pages":"Article 100325"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145047605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluating the influence of modern construction methods on sustainable construction success","authors":"Ahsan Waqar ,&nbsp;Fadia Al Hajj ,&nbsp;Muhammad Danish ,&nbsp;Muhammad Basit Khan ,&nbsp;Moustafa Houda","doi":"10.1016/j.clrc.2025.100327","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.clrc.2025.100327","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) have emerged as transformative strategies for enhancing sustainability, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness in the construction sector. This study investigates the influence of MMC on the economic, social, and environmental dimensions of sustainable construction performance. A quantitative research approach was employed, collecting data through structured questionnaires distributed to industry professionals. Statistical analyses, including reliability testing, descriptive statistics, and regression modeling, were conducted to evaluate stakeholder perceptions and the interrelationships among key variables such as cost reduction, stakeholder satisfaction, innovation, and environmental impact. The results indicate that MMC significantly contributes to cost efficiency and social performance, while its influence on environmental outcomes and technology implementation is more nuanced. The findings support the integration of MMC within sustainability-driven construction frameworks and highlight the importance of organizational readiness, innovation capacity, and procurement adaptation. This study contributes empirical evidence to the ongoing discourse on construction modernization and offers strategic insights for enhancing sustainable outcomes through MMC adoption.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34617,"journal":{"name":"Cleaner and Responsible Consumption","volume":"19 ","pages":"Article 100327"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145047607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Understanding household biogas failures in Nepal: A socio-technical failure mode analysis","authors":"Navin Kumar Jha ,&nbsp;Sunil Prasad Lohani","doi":"10.1016/j.clrc.2025.100335","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.clrc.2025.100335","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Household biogas offers a sustainable alternative to traditional biomass-based cooking in developing countries. However, their long-term functionality is often hindered by technical, socioeconomic, and institutional barriers. The aim of this study is to systematically identify and priorotize the major failure modes of household biogas systems in Nepal and understand how sociotechnical factors exacerbate these failures. Using failure mode and effects analysis integrated with sociotechnical systems theory, a field survey of 384 households was conducted across two ecological regions of Nepal. Twenty (20) key failure modes were identified and prioritized from system failure's perspective using risk priority number (RPN). The most critical failures were non-favorable anaerobic digestion conditions (RPN = 640), insufficient mixing (RPN = 467), and improper dilution ratios (RPN = 403). These technical issues were intensified by socioeconomic barriers such as limited affordability of maintenance, sociocultural stigmas related to waste handling, and institutional shortcomings in post-installation support. The findings suggest that performance-based subsidies, user training, localized design improvements, and stronger maintenance services are vital for sustaining household biogas adoption. Although the findings offer a diagnostic view of household biogas system performance in Nepal, their implications extend to national efforts in GHG emission mitigation, household air pollution reduction, progress toward sustainable development goals and nationally determined contributor targets.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34617,"journal":{"name":"Cleaner and Responsible Consumption","volume":"19 ","pages":"Article 100335"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145048020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Development and validation of the environmentally sustainable consumer behavior index (ESCBI): A composite tool to measure and advance private-sphere pro-environmental consumer behaviors","authors":"Laura Ebbinghaus ,&nbsp;Dominik Georgi ,&nbsp;Marcel Zbinden ,&nbsp;Larissa Dahinden","doi":"10.1016/j.clrc.2025.100365","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.clrc.2025.100365","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Global consumption patterns are increasingly unsustainable, driving climate change and biodiversity loss; however, comprehensive tools for measuring and tracking environmentally sustainable consumer behaviors (ESCB) are lacking. This study addresses this gap by developing and validating the environmentally sustainable consumer behavior index (ESCBI), a first-order reflective, second-order formative measurement tool. Drawing on interdisciplinary literature and data from six survey waves with representative samples (Ns between 1003 and 1031), the ESCBI assesses private-sphere pro-environmental behaviors across key consumption phases and areas. On the first-order level, 11 items are represented by three factors: energy efficiency and waste reduction efforts, environmentally friendly purchasing awareness, and a meat-reduced diet. On the second-order level, these serve as formative indicators of the overall construct and are used to calculate a construct index. The model explains 52 % of the variance in self-reported ESCB and reveals that behaviors related to meat reduction score lowest among consumers. The results theoretically and empirically reinforce the conceptualization of ESCB with formative indicators and provide actionable insights for executives and policy-makers to foster more environmentally sustainable behaviors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34617,"journal":{"name":"Cleaner and Responsible Consumption","volume":"19 ","pages":"Article 100365"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145614232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Urban morphology-energy consumption nexus: A multi-criteria weather vulnerability analysis model for city planning","authors":"Shammi Akter Keya ,&nbsp;Rohinton Emmanuel ,&nbsp;Antti Haapala ,&nbsp;Timo Pakarinen ,&nbsp;Jouni Pykäläinen","doi":"10.1016/j.clrc.2025.100366","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.clrc.2025.100366","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The construction sector, particularly buildings, significantly contributes to global energy consumption and carbon emissions. Despite efforts to mitigate environmental impacts, the sector remains poorly prepared for climate change and external shocks. This study proposes a spatial modeling-based framework to assess cities' energy vulnerability, focusing on building- and neighborhood-scale interventions for climate-resilient construction. Methodologically, the study integrates geographical information systems (GIS) and multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) to develop a novel Weather Vulnerability Index (WVI), which is demonstrated as a proof-of-concept in the City of Joensuu, Eastern Finland. While GIS–MCDA integration has been used earlier, this study advances its application by adapting it to weather-driven urban energy vulnerability and operationalizing IPCC's vulnerability assessment framework in a dual-scale approach. The WVI employs openly accessible datasets and a flexible structure that accommodates contextually relevant variables, while ensuring adaptability across diverse urban settings. It is particularly effective for small- and mid-sized cities, where adaptable and data-efficient tools remain scarce. The WVI classifies neighborhoods based on their vulnerability to high energy consumption and supports targeted interventions, such as retrofits and greening, offering decision-makers a transparent and transferable tool for advancing sustainable and climate-resilient urban development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34617,"journal":{"name":"Cleaner and Responsible Consumption","volume":"19 ","pages":"Article 100366"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145681255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From intention to practice: how materials, competences, and meanings shape the mobile phone practice constellation","authors":"Andrés Ramírez Restrepo,&nbsp;Wenjie Hu,&nbsp;Roger C. Baars","doi":"10.1016/j.clrc.2025.100349","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.clrc.2025.100349","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite widespread environmental awareness, global e-waste recycling rates remain stagnant at approximately 20 %, indicating a persistent gap between pro-environmental intentions and actual behaviors. This study applies Social Practice Theory's elemental approach (EA-SPT) to examine how mobile phone practices emerge from configurations of materials, competences, and meanings, rather than individual choice alone. Through a mixed-methods approach, including two focus groups, 139 surveys, and 27 semi-structured interviews conducted between November 2024 and June 2025, we characterized five interconnected practices: using, repairing, upgrading, storing, and recycling of mobile phones. We developed quantitative indicators to operationalize EA-SPT concepts. Findings show that practice adoption correlates strongly with perceived normality (r = 0.968) but not with coherence (measured through co-word link strength) or responsibility attribution. “Using” emerged as the most coherent and adopted practice (91.4 %). “Recycling” showed minimal adoption (23.0 %), despite stronger elemental integration than “storing” (69.8 % recruitment). Critical insights of the study are (1) practice adoption results from complex socio-material arrangements rather than single determinants; (2) the presence or absence of practice elements proves more predictive of engagement than individual motivations; and (3) generational differences manifest as practice-specific phenomena rather than uniform technological divides. These insights challenge conventional behavior-change interventions targeting individual attitudes, demonstrating instead that sustainable e-waste management requires addressing entire practice constellation. The study provides empirically validated tools for measuring practice dynamics and offers evidence-based foundations for designing policies that recognize the embedded nature of environmental behaviors within everyday life.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34617,"journal":{"name":"Cleaner and Responsible Consumption","volume":"19 ","pages":"Article 100349"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145466640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Consumer preferences for second-life electric vehicle batteries across multiple applications","authors":"Jun Osawa","doi":"10.1016/j.clrc.2025.100337","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.clrc.2025.100337","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The growing shift from internal combustion engine vehicles to battery electric vehicles (BEVs) is pivotal for reducing CO₂ emissions, but it also raises new environmental and resource concerns. Consequently, effective recycling and reuse strategies for BEV batteries are increasingly critical. While research on BEV adoption has expanded, studies on consumer preferences for battery reuse applications remain limited, particularly research comparing valuations across different contexts and examining psychological drivers of acceptance. This study aims to analyze consumer preferences for reused BEV batteries in two applications—vehicle replacement parts and residential stationary storage—by conducting a discrete choice experiment within a questionnaire survey of BEV users in Japan. Results revealed that cost savings and lifetime losses are more influential than carbon savings, and preferences differ significantly across applications. Notably, consumers showed substantially higher willingness to pay to avoid battery lifetime losses in residential stationary storage (5724 JPY/year/kWh) than in vehicle settings (1470 JPY/year/kWh). These findings suggest an application-specific approach: cost competitiveness is crucial for vehicle use, whereas performance and environmental benefits can justify premium pricing in residential storage. Furthermore, perceived usefulness moderately shifts cost and durability sensitivities, highlighting the importance of clear communication about reused batteries’ value. Overall, this study provides new insights into how consumer preferences vary by application and underscores the need for differentiated business and policy strategies to foster battery reuse and advance the circular economy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34617,"journal":{"name":"Cleaner and Responsible Consumption","volume":"19 ","pages":"Article 100337"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145097554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"To eat or not to Eat: Modeling food waste behavior at a hotel breakfast buffet","authors":"Ivan Puga-Gonzalez ,&nbsp;Larissa L. Lima ,&nbsp;Patrycja Antosz ,&nbsp;Ernesto Carrella ,&nbsp;Elisa Iori ,&nbsp;Caterina Rettore ,&nbsp;Markus G. Rousseau ,&nbsp;F. LeRon Shults ,&nbsp;Matteo Vittuari","doi":"10.1016/j.clrc.2025.100333","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.clrc.2025.100333","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Food loss and waste are increasingly recognized as the outcomes of complex, interconnected social and environmental dynamics rather than isolated individual choices. In this study, we adopt a complex systems approach to explore how micro-level behaviors and interactions within commercial dining settings give rise to emergent patterns of food waste. We present an agent-based model that integrates a psychologically realistic representation of individual decision-making, grounded in the HUMAT socio-cognitive architecture. Here, artificial agents balance multiple motives — including social, experiential, and values-based drivers — while operating within a context shaped by the Motivation, Opportunities, and Abilities (MOA) framework from the social sciences. The simulated population represents diners in buffet-style environments. Individuals follow rules influenced by their motivations, opportunities, and abilities, which dictate factors such as the timing of their meal, portion sizes, frequency of servings, and amount of leftovers on their plates. Results highlight that the motives of conformism and sustainability have the strongest impact on food waste levels, with higher values drastically reducing leftovers. The model also shows that extra servings—particularly in scenarios with normal plate sizes—are strongly associated with increased waste. These findings underscore how behavioral drivers and situational constraints interact to shape food waste patterns, supporting the model's application in simulating context-sensitive interventions for promoting sustainable and responsible consumption.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34617,"journal":{"name":"Cleaner and Responsible Consumption","volume":"19 ","pages":"Article 100333"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145097556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A study of the neural mechanisms by which reference groups and low-carbon product types influence individual purchase decisions","authors":"Peng Zhang ,&nbsp;Shuang Li ,&nbsp;Jing Feng ,&nbsp;Lei Mei","doi":"10.1016/j.clrc.2025.100346","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.clrc.2025.100346","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Low-carbon consumption is an important way to alleviate environmental and resource pressures and realize sustainable development, but the existence of problems such as information asymmetry of implicit low-carbon products often hinders consumers' willingness to purchase. Nowadays, with the booming development of online social media, reference groups have become the main way to influence individual purchase decisions, However, the academic community lacks clarity on how these different reference groups influence low-carbon products with different attributes purchases and the underlying neural mechanisms. Therefore, grounded in the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM), this study investigated the psychological mechanism of the interaction between reference group type (membership vs. aspirational) and low-carbon product attributes (explicit vs. implicit) on individuals' low-carbon purchase decisions using ERP and behavioral experiments. Our ERP and behavioral results reveal that in the early attention-getting stage (peripheral paths), the P200 amplitude induced by the member group was larger than that of the desire group, regardless of the attributes of the low-carbon product. This indicates that, in the early stage, consumers pay attention to the recommending group first, rather than the attributes of low-carbon products. More importantly, consumers pay attention to the recommendation of the member group rather than the aspirational group. In the later stage of evaluating decision-making (central paths), it was found that the recommendation of explicit low-carbon products by the eager group and the recommendation of implicit low-carbon products by the membership group induce relatively small N400 amplitudes, indicating that the two combinations of individuals have less perceived conflict; the former improves the individual's perceived benefit, and the latter reduces the individual's perceived risk, which is in line with the final results of the individual's purchasing decision. The findings reveal the role and neural mechanisms of reference groups in influencing individuals to purchase low-carbon products with different attributes, which promotes theoretical research and practical expansion of low-carbon consumption and neuromarketing,and provides a theoretical basis for enterprises to gain more attention and formulate more effective marketing strategies in the low-carbon market.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":34617,"journal":{"name":"Cleaner and Responsible Consumption","volume":"19 ","pages":"Article 100346"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145465847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}