Exploring green consumers' mind-set toward green product design and life cycle assessment: The case of skeptical Brazilian and Portuguese green consumers Lemke and Luzio exploring green consumers' mind-set toward design and LCA

Journal of Industrial Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 619-630

  Lemke, Fred ^a   Luzio, João Pedro Pereira ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consumer skepticism; Green consumers; Green production; Greenwashing; Industrial ecology; Market oriented sustainability

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; ECODESIGN; ECOLOGY; GREEN MANUFACTURING; PRODUCT DESIGN; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

CONSUMER SKEPTICISM; GREEN CONSUMERS; GREEN PRODUCTION; GREENWASHING; INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY;

LIFE CYCLE;

EID: 84907889822     PISSN: 10881980     EISSN: 15309290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jiec.12123     Document Type: Article

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