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SCS

The Sustainable Consumption Scale (SCS) measures the extent to which individuals adopt sustainable and ethical consumption practices across multiple life domains including food, clothing, household products, transportation, and waste. Developed within ecological economics and consumer behavior frameworks (Sundström, 2014; Vermeir & Verbeke, 2008), the SCS captures integrated sustainable lifestyle rather than isolated green behaviors. The scale is widely used in research on sustainable consumption patterns, consumer segmentation for green marketing, and evaluation of sustainability interventions targeting lifestyle transformation.

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Sustainable Consumption Scale
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / environmental-psychology
  • Sundström, A. M. (2014). An investigation of the relationship between sustainable values and consumption patterns. In Interdisciplinary book of sustainable development. InTech Press. · URL
  • Vermeir, I., & Verbeke, W. (2008). Sustainable food consumption among young adults in Belgium: Theory of planned behaviour and the role of confidence and values. Ecological Economics, 64(3), 542–553. · DOI 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2007.03.007
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