Evaluating the consumption-based carbon footprint offers detailed insights into people’s behaviours, lifestyles, and environmental impact stemming from their consumption patterns. Integrating life satisfaction and attitudes into the analysis is crucial. This paper aims to examine how life satisfaction, financial constraints, attitudes toward sustainable consumption, environmental awareness, and socio-economic/demographic variables contribute to the carbon footprint across the following consumption categories: food, mobility, electricity, heating, and clothes.
The subject of the paper is to point out the influence of the so-called "neoliberal culture" on economic development in the SEE countries and to explain the relationship between "neoliberal culture" and alternative institutions. In order to understand the topics covered by the research, the nature of the relationship between culture and institutions, as well as the relationship between culture and economic development, are additionally explained. The goal of the research is to ascertain the negative impact of the so-called "neoliberal culture" in SEE countries.
Climate change is largely caused by human activities and has negative effects on the world such as temperature rise, sea level rise and warming oceans, easier spread of disease, increased species loss, more intense natural phenomena, food scarcity, forced migration and increased poverty. This can leave an emotional impact on people – people start experiencing climate change-related emotions or eco-emotions. These emotions can affect each other and people’s environmental behaviour.
Low-carbon transition is a shift from an economy that depends heavily on fossil fuels to a sustainable, low-carbon energy economy. This book analyzes the role of renewables in driving the low-carbon transition in agriculture, explores the circular bio-based economy, and examines policies and strategies designed to facilitate low-carbon transition in agriculture, greenhouse gas mitigation, and adaptation trends in the European Union agriculture sector. It provides new knowledge and understanding about the impact of low-carbon energy transition, emphasizes the key role of renewable energy in a wide range of agricultural activities, and offers alternative sustainable solutions to current practices.
he book aims to contribute to the scarce literature on the role of servitization in farming and rural development. It offers a conceptual and empirical understanding of the ways of servitization in agriculture and rural development, examined through the prism of an evolutionary approach based on the theory of qualitative structure. The method of qualitative structure explains why and how a switch from product-oriented business logic to service-oriented business logic happens and helps to find many new insights useful for improving farm management and socio-economic development of rural regions. It combines a systematic and evolutionary analysis of literature on servitization and agricultural production strategies with case studies of farming and territorial servitization projects implemented in Lithuania. It will be of great interest to researchers and students in the field of rural development studies, servitization and business model innovation.
Seeking to implement the sustainable development goals (SDGs), the integration of digital technologies in supply chains emerges as a promising tool to address environmental challenges and improve operational efficiency. Utilizing the supply chain innovation and application pilot policy as a quasi-natural experiment, we assess the causal impact of supply chain digitization on corporate environmental practices. Our findings reveal that supply chain digital innovation substantially enhances corporate environmental practices.
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Meat consumption has come under scrutiny due to its significant ecological footprint. Understanding the determinants of meat consumption is crucial for designing effective interventions to promote sustainable diets. Thus, using results from the representative survey conducted in Latvia, in 2023 and by applying the factor analysis and generalized linear regression, this research aims to explore the most influential determinants of
meat consumption behaviours within the framework of the extended Theory of Planned Behaviour.
Gender equality is a fundamental value of the European Union (EU), as reflected in its policy framework. Despite commendable progress, gender disparities persist, particularly in the agricultural sector. Central and Eastern European countries merit particular attention due to their transforming rural areas and the need to ensure social equality. The issues of gender equality in Lithuanian agriculture have not been sufficiently explored, and patriarchal thinking remains prevalent in the country.
Authors:dr. Vida DabkienėIERDdr. Indrė Šikšnelytė-ButkienėIERDdr. Dalia ŠtreimikienėIERDdr. Vaida ŠapolaitėIERDdr. Tomas BaležentisIERD
The present research assesses the agri-environmental sustainability of the Baltic states, namely Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, while analyzing agricultural biodiversity, greenhouse gas emissions, land utilization, energy use, and water management. For the purpose of these evaluations
and ranking, we employ the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS), applied to a set of agri-environmental indicators (AES) collected from various sources, including Eurostat and similar databases.
With the recognition of the impact of the transport sector on climate change and human health, decision-makers are under the pressure to shape the transport sector in a more sustainable way, considering more sustainable options and technologies. Besides that, it is also important to ensure such aspects as affordability, security, reliability and convenience of transport services and the effective functioning of the whole system.
Authors:dr. Indrė Šikšnelytė-ButkienėIERDdr. Dalia ŠtreimikienėIERDdr. Tomas BaležentisIERDLeonardo Agnusdei
The European market for organic products has been expanding, with a persistent difference between the growth rates of organic retail trade (actual demand for organic products) and the growth rates of organic agricultural land areas (potential supply of organic products). This makes the European Union (EU) dependent on global imports.
Authors:dr. Tomas BaležentisIERDdr. Dalia ŠtreimikienėIERDOlena Nifatova Yuriy Danko Svitlana Petrychuk
This paper explores the incorporation of experiential marketing strategies into the business models of tourism and hospitality firms, arguing that such an approach can enhance consumer experience and differentiate firms in a competitive market. Building on previous research that investigates experiential marketing in broader contexts, this study reviews existing research and practices to identify key issues and proposes a typology of experiential strategies specifically tailored to tourism and hospitality.