Environmentally sustainable versus aesthetic values motivating millennials’ preferences for wine purchasing: evidence from an experimental analysis in Italy

Agricultural and Food Economics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2019, Pages

  Gallenti, Gianluigi ^a   Troiano, Stefania ^b   Marangon, Francesco ^b   Bogoni, Paolo ^a   Campisi, Barbara ^a   Cosmina, Marta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Carbon footprint; Choice experiment; Italian millennial generation; Wine consumption; Winescape aesthetic

Indexed keywords

EID: 85068778476     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21937532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40100-019-0132-x     Document Type: Article

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