SEER: Sustainable E-commerce with Environmental-impact Rating

Autor: Md Saiful Islam, Adiba Mahbub Proma, Caleb Wohn, Karen Berger, Serena Uong, Varun Kumar, Katrina Smith Korfmacher, Ehsan Hoque
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Cleaner Environmental Systems, Vol 8, Iss , Pp 100104- (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2666-7894
DOI: 10.1016/j.cesys.2022.100104
Popis: With online shopping gaining massive popularity over the past few years, this study identifies a promising opportunity for E-commerce platforms to tackle climate change and other environmental problems. This study investigates a redesign of E-commerce platforms to bridge the existing “attitude-behavior gap” regarding environmental sustainability in online shopping. It introduces a concept design named Sustainable E-commerce with Environmental-impact Rating (SEER) – a way of communicating products’ environmental impact when displaying them on E-commerce platforms. A quasi-randomized case-control experiment with 98 subjects demonstrates the efficacy and user-friendliness of the proposed concept design. The case group using SEER showed significantly more eco-friendly behavior than the control group (p
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