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SUMMARY:No\, rien de rien... Regretted purchases in the UK and their impli
 cations for environmental policy - Dr Sandy Skelton (Department of Enginee
 ring)
DTSTART:20151105T131000Z
DTEND:20151105T140000Z
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CONTACT:Evros Loukaides
DESCRIPTION:The choices that people make over the things that they buy can
  invite judgement. Evidence that close to a fifth of food and drink brough
 t into UK households is wasted and that nearly a third of clothes bought b
 y UK consumers are left unworn at home\, serves to bolster such judgements
 \, however\, judging the worthiness of different types of consumption goes
  against the libertarian principles of free market economics. Within this 
 context\, identifying regretted purchases could offer an opportunity to ev
 aluate demand\, allowing people to judge their own choices and so avoiding
  casting judgement on others. Questioning demand in this way is important 
 given the environmental consequences of our consumption patterns. In this 
 talk I will present findings from a UK representative household survey on 
 the tendency to regret purchases across a range of products and explore th
 e relevance of these findings for environmental policy-makers.
LOCATION:The Richard King Room\, Darwin College
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