TY - JOUR
T1 - The design of an environmental index of sustainable food consumption
T2 - A pilot study using supermarket data
AU - Panzone, Luca A.
AU - Wossink, Ada
AU - Southerton, Dale
PY - 2013/10/1
Y1 - 2013/10/1
N2 - Monitoring of the environmental impacts of consumption is necessary for the evaluation of current performance and to support the understanding of how initiatives for change can be implemented. We discuss design issues and methodology for an Environmentally Sensitive Shopper (ESS) index to measure the environmental sustainability of food consumption at the household level. The ESS index is based on revealed consumer preferences and uses scanner data provided by the largest UK food retailer. As a pilot illustration of the methodology, we use the index to identify environmentally critical periods during the calendar year.
AB - Monitoring of the environmental impacts of consumption is necessary for the evaluation of current performance and to support the understanding of how initiatives for change can be implemented. We discuss design issues and methodology for an Environmentally Sensitive Shopper (ESS) index to measure the environmental sustainability of food consumption at the household level. The ESS index is based on revealed consumer preferences and uses scanner data provided by the largest UK food retailer. As a pilot illustration of the methodology, we use the index to identify environmentally critical periods during the calendar year.
KW - Food
KW - Revealed preferences
KW - Sustainability index
KW - Sustainable consumption
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84881084792&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2013.07.003
DO - 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2013.07.003
M3 - Article (Academic Journal)
AN - SCOPUS:84881084792
SN - 0921-8009
VL - 94
SP - 44
EP - 55
JO - Ecological Economics
JF - Ecological Economics
ER -
