Papers by Costanza Ingrao
The Fair Trade label which aims to guarantee a "better deal" for poor farmers in developing count... more The Fair Trade label which aims to guarantee a "better deal" for poor farmers in developing countries, is perhaps the best-known ethical label.
La tesi affronta lo studio del modello benefit e dei suoi sviluppi normativi negli USA e in Itali... more La tesi affronta lo studio del modello benefit e dei suoi sviluppi normativi negli USA e in Italia, al fine di poter fornire delle basi per una riflessione circa la validità e l’efficacia dell’istituto rispetto alle finalità perseguite dal legislatore
This report is written for the course called "European Territorial and Organizational Planning" ... more This report is written for the course called "European Territorial and Organizational Planning" and it summarizes the Urban Agenda for EU and explains mainly four pilot partnerships and also mentioning Italy's part in Urban Agenda with today's view by Ingrao Costanza and Simsek Betul.
Thesis Chapters by Costanza Ingrao
MSc Thesis, 2020
Packaging-free retail and in-store refilling schemes have not been explored much from a scientifi... more Packaging-free retail and in-store refilling schemes have not been explored much from a scientific perspective and there is still uncertainty about actual environmental benefits which can be derived from in-store refilling schemes and about the market potential for a larger scale adoption of the concept.
This thesis tries therefore, to reduce such uncertainty addressing two broad hypotheses:
H.1 packaging-free retail enables to reduce significantly packaging waste and to improve the sustainability of the grocery products supply chain;
H.2 Packaging-free retail has the potential to expand on a larger scale and catch beyond a niche of consumers.
Conceptually the thesis is structured into two parts reflecting the two hypotheses, which however, are partially interrelated.
The first part explores the packaging-free retail concept, its market applications and its potential from an environmental perspective.
The second part investigates the packaging-free concept from a consumer’s perspective. Thorough review of the literature on pro-environmental consumption behaviours and on consumer’ attitudes towards packaging and packaging waste is carried out, with the purpose to gather the needed knowledge for designing a survey investigating attitudes to and consumption behaviours around packaging-free products in Italy. The survey, which is conducted by mean of an online questionnaire, is presented and the results obtained from the administration of the questionnaire on a sample of 1000 people are reported and eventually compared with findings from previous studies.
This research contributes to improve the understanding of packaging-free retail and of consumers’ response to such concept, providing support to policy makers and companies for taking well informed decisions. Furthermore, it contributes to widen the academic literature on consumers’ adoption of pro-environmental behaviours related to grocery consumption choices and packaging waste.
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Papers by Costanza Ingrao
Thesis Chapters by Costanza Ingrao
This thesis tries therefore, to reduce such uncertainty addressing two broad hypotheses:
H.1 packaging-free retail enables to reduce significantly packaging waste and to improve the sustainability of the grocery products supply chain;
H.2 Packaging-free retail has the potential to expand on a larger scale and catch beyond a niche of consumers.
Conceptually the thesis is structured into two parts reflecting the two hypotheses, which however, are partially interrelated.
The first part explores the packaging-free retail concept, its market applications and its potential from an environmental perspective.
The second part investigates the packaging-free concept from a consumer’s perspective. Thorough review of the literature on pro-environmental consumption behaviours and on consumer’ attitudes towards packaging and packaging waste is carried out, with the purpose to gather the needed knowledge for designing a survey investigating attitudes to and consumption behaviours around packaging-free products in Italy. The survey, which is conducted by mean of an online questionnaire, is presented and the results obtained from the administration of the questionnaire on a sample of 1000 people are reported and eventually compared with findings from previous studies.
This research contributes to improve the understanding of packaging-free retail and of consumers’ response to such concept, providing support to policy makers and companies for taking well informed decisions. Furthermore, it contributes to widen the academic literature on consumers’ adoption of pro-environmental behaviours related to grocery consumption choices and packaging waste.
This thesis tries therefore, to reduce such uncertainty addressing two broad hypotheses:
H.1 packaging-free retail enables to reduce significantly packaging waste and to improve the sustainability of the grocery products supply chain;
H.2 Packaging-free retail has the potential to expand on a larger scale and catch beyond a niche of consumers.
Conceptually the thesis is structured into two parts reflecting the two hypotheses, which however, are partially interrelated.
The first part explores the packaging-free retail concept, its market applications and its potential from an environmental perspective.
The second part investigates the packaging-free concept from a consumer’s perspective. Thorough review of the literature on pro-environmental consumption behaviours and on consumer’ attitudes towards packaging and packaging waste is carried out, with the purpose to gather the needed knowledge for designing a survey investigating attitudes to and consumption behaviours around packaging-free products in Italy. The survey, which is conducted by mean of an online questionnaire, is presented and the results obtained from the administration of the questionnaire on a sample of 1000 people are reported and eventually compared with findings from previous studies.
This research contributes to improve the understanding of packaging-free retail and of consumers’ response to such concept, providing support to policy makers and companies for taking well informed decisions. Furthermore, it contributes to widen the academic literature on consumers’ adoption of pro-environmental behaviours related to grocery consumption choices and packaging waste.