I: Key Addresses, Ageing, Children, Competition, Culture, Technology
II: Finance, Design, Family, Food, Housing,
III: Inequality, Politics, Sustainability, Innovation
IV: Ombudsman session, Special sessions, Roundtable

12. Inequality in consumption (including ethnicity and gender issues)
(8 papers, 1 MB)

Berg, Lisbet & Mari Teigen: Gendered consumer competences in households with one versus two adults

Borgeraas, Elling & Espen Dahl: Low income and “poverty lines” in Norway – A comparison of three concepts

Ekström, Marianne Pipping & Inger M. Jonsson: Women dining alone in restaurant rooms

Haanpää, Leena: Women’s sporting events in Finland: from physical enjoyment to recreation of mind

Hjort, Torbjörn & Pernille Hohnen: Consumption as a field of participation

Hohnen, Pernille & Torbjörn Hjort: Towards a new model citizen? A qualitative analysis of new responsibilities and forms of individualized social security for consumer-citizens in the Nordic welfare state.

Rysst, Mari: Needs, wants and bicycles: Financial resources, cultural priorities and marginalization in Nordic families

Smed, Sinne: The Influence of Prices on a Healthy Diet

13. Political consumption
(8 papers, 1 MB)

Autio, Minna & Visa Heinonen: Representation of Consumerism in the Finnish Consumer Policy Programmes 1983-2007

Boström, Magnus & Mikael Klintman: Green Labelling and Green Consumerism: Challenges and Horizons

van den Burg, Sander : The political modernization of sustainable consumption policies

Christensen, Tove, Sigrid Denver & Morten Raun Mørkbak: Food safety and the reversed political consumer

Dubuisson-Quellier, Sophie: From consumerism to the empowerment of consumers. The case of ethic food movement in France.

Kjærnes, Unni, Randi Lavik, Henric Barkmann & Michele Micheletti: Buying welfare friendly food – a case of political consumerism?

Pellizzoni, Luigi: Three challenges for political consumerism

Terragni, Laura: From the White Label campaign to the No sweat initiatives. A journey at the roots of political consumerism

15. Sustainable consumption
(9 papers, 1 MB)

Berg, Annukka: European Forerunners of Sustainable Consumption and Production Programmes - Challenges and possibilities in an emerging policy field

Lähteenoja, Satu, Michael Lettenmeier, Tommi Kauppinen, Karoliina Luoto, Tiina Moisio, Marja Salo, Petro Tamminen & Sini Veuro: Natural resource consumption caused by Finnish households

Mont, Oksana: Sustainable consumption and lifestyles: contributions to the Marrakech process

Nurmela, Juha: Could the Household Budget Survey serve as a yardstick of sustainable consumption?

Solér, Cecilia: Sustainable Consumption as negotiation of sign-value

Thunström, Linda: Using Price Instruments to Affect Probabilities of Purchasing Healthy Labelled Breakfast Cereals

Thøgersen, John: The motivational roots of norms for environmentally responsible behaviour

Tukker, Arnold et.al.: Governance of change of Sustainable Consumption and Production – An Evidence Based View

Vittersø, Gunnar, Ingun G.Klepp & Eivind Stø: Holiday consumption and sustainable development - the cases of foreign holiday trips and Norwegian cabin life

16. The role of consumers in innovation policies
(5 papers, 2 MB)

Grunert, Klaus G.: Consumer-based innovation: The analysis of consumer preferences in new product development, and the potential supporting role of consumer policy

Heiskanen, Eva & Raimo Lovio: User Knowledge in Housing Energy Innovations

Hyysalo, Sampsa: User innovation, design space, and everyday practices: Rodeo Kayaking case revisited

Johnson, Mikael & Kalle Toiskallio: Who Are the Habbo Hotel Users - And What Are They Doing There?

Saastamoinen, Mika, Eva Heiskanen, Kaarina Hyvönen, Tanja Kotro & Petteri Repo: Consumers in Product Development: Empowered or Exploited?