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Toward sustainable consumption: Researching voluntary simplifiers
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This article examines and extends the notion of voluntary simplifiers (VS). VS are individuals who have freely chosen a frugal, anticonsumer lifestyle that features low resource use and environmental impact. The article will begin by reviewing empirical work with VS and their mainstream counterparts, non-voluntary simplifiers (NVS). It will go on to identify and locate within this literature an intermediate group: beginner voluntary simplifiers (BVS). BVS may support some aspects of sustainability (such as buying fair-trade coffee or recycling domestic waste) without either embracing a complete lifestyle change like VS, or completely dismissing ethical or environ-mental features of products and services they consume, like NVS. Insight into the complex decision-making processes of BVS is crucial for the understanding of the concept of voluntary simplification and is therefore important for the advancement of sustainable consumption. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Authors
- McDonald, S., Oates, C. J., Young, C. W., & Hwang, K.
- Venue
- Psychology and Marketing
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2006
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 515-534
- ISSN
- 0742-6046 (ISSN-L)
- 1520-6793
- OpenAlex
- W2025009014
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- 314
- References
- 3
- FWCI
- 28.16
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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