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Green Lifestyle Adoption: Shopping without Plastic Bags

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  • Wenbo Wang

    (Department of Marketing, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    Institute for Emerging Market Studies, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Abstract

IEMS Faculty Associate Prof. Wenbo Wang examines how people become green by studying a policy change in China which obligated consumers to purchase plastic bags rather than receive them for free.

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  • Wenbo Wang, 2014. "Green Lifestyle Adoption: Shopping without Plastic Bags," HKUST IEMS Thought Leadership Brief Series 2015-02, HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies, revised Aug 2014.
    • Handle: RePEc:hku:briefs:201502
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    Keywords

    plastic bags; environmentalism; green lifestyle; China; environmental taxes; policy; environmental policy;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q56 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth
    • H23 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies

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