Consumers, Policy and the Environment

The role of the consumer has changed from seeking the most satisfaction from goods and services to reconciling consumption with active citizenship, which links consumption to modern social issues such as environmental protection, sound business ethics, and fair working conditions. Understanding consumers -- the way they buy products, the way they relate to questions of environmental importance, and the way they participate in public policy formulation processes -is of vital importance to modern society. In this book, eminent researchers examine contemporary issues related to the field of consumers, policy, and the environment.

Résumé
Professor Folke 0lander celebrates his 70th birthday the 21st of July 2005. With this 'Festschrift', Folke 01ander7s colleagues and collaborators over the years want to honour him and to express their appreciation of his life-long contribution to - search, especially research within the themes reflected in the title of this volume: Consumers, Policy and the Environment. Having established close collaboration with European economic psychology's grand old man, Karl-Erik Warneryd, already during his PhD study, Folke 0lander became an active contributor to the development of economic psychology as a - search field in Europe. When the International Association for Research in E- nomic Psychology (IAREP) was founded in 1982, Folke Olander was present, and he was president of IAREP in 1989- 199 1. Folke 0lander has played an equally - fluential role in European and international consumer policy research. Together with Gerhard Scherhorn and Norbert Reich, he was a founding editor of the Journal of Consumer Policy in 1977, a position he has held until 2005. Folke 0lander has also been very active in Nordic consumer policy and in Nordic consumer research since the 70s. He played a crucial part in the Nordic workshop 'Consumer and - ciety' in 1978 and organized the workshop on 'Road to consumer influence' in Helsinki in 1986. He has been a member of the Nordic Consumer Committee under the Nordic Council of Ministers since 1994.

Contenu
Consumer Psychology: Not Necessarily a Manipulative Science.- The Changing Relationship between Consumer and Environmental Policy: Analyzing JCP's Quarter Century of Coverage.- The Consumer Image over the Centuries.- The Personality Roots of Saving Uncovered from German and Dutch Surveys.- Compulsive Buying as a Consumer Policy Issue in East and West Germany.- Consumer Research Enters the 1960s Legislative Arena: A Participant-Observer Report on the Role of Behavioral Research in the U.S. Congressional Hearings on the Truth Bills.- Consumers as Citizens Three Approaches to Collective Consumer Problems.- Patterns of Interests and Strategies for Consumer Policy.- Environmentally Co-Responsible Consumer Behaviour and Political Consumerism.- Peripheral Cues in Advertising and Consumer Policy.- Marketing: A Consumer Disaster?.- Do Better Companies Provide Better Products?.- Market Transparency via the Internet A New Challenge for Consumer Policy.- Investigations of the Consumer Psychology of Near-Money.- In the Eye of the Beholder: Danish Consumer-Citizens and Sustainability.- Sustainability, Consumer Sovereignty, and the Concept of the Market.- Main Effects and Side Effects of Environmental Regulation.- The Role of Consumers in Environmental Successes.