Towards Circular Economy for More Sustainable Apparel Consumption: Testing the Value-Belief-Norm Theory in Brazil and in The Netherlands

The apparel industry causes environmental problems, particularly due to the shortening life cycle of garments and fast-fashion’s throw-away culture. The circular economy provides solutions to minimise and prevent these problems through innovative circular business models, which require changes in consumer behaviours. With the lens of environmental psychology, we analyse consumers’ willingness to acquire circular apparel considering four approaches on clothing life-cycle extension. We conducted an online questionnaire among Brazilian and Dutch consumers and tested if the Value-Belief-Norm (VBN)... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Giovana Monteiro Gomes
Natalia Moreira
Thijs Bouman
Aldo Roberto Ometto
Ellen van der Werff
Dokumenttyp: Text
Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
Verlag/Hrsg.: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Schlagwörter: circular economy / environmental psychology / consumer behaviour / life-cycle extension / Value-Belief-Norm theory / circular clothing
Sprache: Englisch
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Link(s) : https://doi.org/10.3390/su14020618