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Consumption and Production Patterns for Agricultural Sustainable Development
2021
Agriculture has always played a key role in feeding the world population and ensuring the development of sustainable food production systems. However, over recent decades, many farmers have over-exploited agricultural ecosystems in order to increase their production and incomes. This has caused a reduction or degradation of environmental sustainability, reducing farmers’ profitability and leading many producers to abandon rural areas. Moreover, currently, over 820 million people in the world are hungry, while a third of the food produced is lost or wasted, with negative implications on economic, social and environmental conditions at a global level, highlighting how different production, ed…
Geographical cues: evidences from New and Old World countries' wine consumers
2020
PurposeThis systematic review aims to investigate how geographical cues affect wine consumers' behaviors, with reference to the New and Old Worlds, and accordingly, how are recent consumption patterns and new consumer profiles modifying roles of geographical cues?Design/methodology/approachThis work employed a systematic literature review methodology on the extant literature published from 2009 to 2019.FindingsResults, summarized in a conceptual framework, emphasize five thematic areas on how geographical cues should be considered for future research and for new marketing strategies to capture consumers of New and Old World wines. Consumers' wine knowledge, socio-ethno-demographic factors, …
Populated Places and Conspicuous Consumption: High Population Density Cues Predict Consumers’ Luxury-Linked Brand Attitudes
2021
Population density has been identified as an ecological factor with considerable behavioral implications. The present research aimed to examine whether the mere perception of more (vs. less) populated places can change consumers’ luxury-linked brand attitudes. To this end, we experimentally manipulated consumers’ perceptions of population density using pictorial exposure to high (vs. low) population density cues. The results revealed a significant interaction between manipulated population density and perceived brand luxury on brand attitudes. Specifically, exposure to high rather than low population density cues resulted in more positive (negative) attitudes toward brands deemed to be more…
Analysis of the appropriation of a connected object : an experiential and dimensional approach
2022
The evolution and interactivity of connected objects promise a continuous improvement of the consumer experience, especially through the adaptation of the object and the development of its functionalities. But in some cases, the evolving nature of the object can lead to a situation where the user has to reappropriate it. Through a netnography and an analysis of life stories, this research studies the appropriation process in a dynamic way.The main contribution of this research is the identification of two dimensions (social and situational) and four forms of appropriation : autotelic, instrumental, individual and collective, which we bring closer to Lanier and Rader's (2015) measure of expe…
COVID-19 Drives Consumer Behaviour and Agro-Food Markets towards Healthier and More Sustainable Patterns
2020
This study examines the extant state of research into our understanding of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic in its early stages on food-purchasing behaviour. As such, it includes a summary and categorisation of the findings, extending to consumption preferences worldwide. After the indiscriminate stockpiling of food, which was witnessed in many countries following the implementation of the lockdown, the impact of COVID-19 (COronaVIrus Disease-2019) on consumer habits has inversely varied in function of personal attitudes, individual and household experiences, and characteristics. Specific contexts, and the financial, economic, and logistic nature of these contexts, have also been foun…
Determinants of Ready-to-eat Products Purchase Intentions: An Empirical Study among the Italian Consumers
2018
The considerable diffusion of ready-to-eat products has focused attention on the reasons for their increasingly prominent success in the market. Although their prices are much higher than the prices of simple raw materials, their consumption has increased rapidly and with no end in sight, a situation that has challenged the conclusions of the classical literature on the importance of price and/or income in consumer decisions. In fact, more recent literature has broadened the classical vision by introducing potential additional variables that could influence consumer choice of certain foods. These variables, however, are not always easy and clear to identify because they reflect the cultural…
GLI OBBLIGHI DI INFORMAZIONE TRA REGOLE DI PROTEZIONE DEL CONSUMATORE E DIRITTO CONTRATTUALE EUROPEO
2013
Less ambitious than the original proposals, the Consumer Rights Directive 2011/83 focuses on the area of information duties and the right of withdrawal in B2C contracts. This article analyses the new rules providing information obligations, and highlights some of the unresolved questions particularly concerning the level of consumer protection, and the remedies for the breach of those obligations. An extensive catalogue of information is now to be given in distance and off-premises contracts; and — according to the existing rules within the Directives on Timeshare Contracts and Package Travel — this catalogue is to be considered an integral part of the contract. According to the Author’s op…
Oneri di sbilanciamento (diritto dell'energia)
2018
The article aims to explore to what extent consumers protection, as principle constitutionally guaranteed by art.38 of EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights, should affect the rules governing the electricity dispatching service and the balancing system. On a market such as the electricity market, where demand is inflexible and the product concerned cannot be stored, electricity dispatching service is designed to ensure that, within the national transmission system, the supply of electricity matches demand, thereby guaranteeing security and continuity in the energy supply. Transparent market-based mechanisms for the supply and purchase of electricity needs to be combined with balancing measures…
La disciplina generale del contratto- Seconda edizione
2017
Il volume si propone di offrire non una mera esposizione ma una chiave di lettura del diritto dei contratti attuale, corroborata dagli ampi riferimenti alle più significative prese di posizione della giurisprudenza su questioni aperte,specie quelle che tornano ad interrogare il rapporto tra legge, ruolo del giudice, autonomia dei privati. Sulla scorta di una precisa scelta di metodo, si è assunta la disciplina di fonte europea - in materia di contratti di consumo e di contratti tra imprese- non come parte ‘speciale’ ma quale componente a pieno titolo del diritto dei contratti, valorizzando le ricadute sul piano sistematico e l’ effetto ‘di contaminazione’determinati dall’innesto delle regol…
La disciplina generale del contratto, Terza edizione
2019
Il volume intende offrire una visione aggiornata e sistematica della disciplina generale del contratto nella sua odierna complessità in larga parte dovuta al processo di "contaminazione" con il diritto di fonte europea. Particolare attenzione è riservata alle trasformazioni del diritto patrimoniale attuale nel quadro di un proficuo dialogo tra le Corti (interne e sovranazionali)