Adoption behavior of water efficiency labeling: origin, research progress and theoretical framework – evidence from China

• DOI: 10.2166/wp.2021.132
• Publication Date: 2021-11-01T15:25:31Z
• Authors: Jingru Liang; Shujing Zhang; Han Wang; Peijie Du; Yanrong Wang
• Keywords: Empirical Research; Consumer behaviour

Abstract Research on the adoption behavior of water efficiency labeling is great significance for improving citizens' water-saving consciousness and promoting techniques standards. This study sorted out 559 papers about then systematically analyzed origin research progress in different fields. Finally, related theories empirical analysis are integrated, a framework ‘gold ingot’ that focuses constructed. The found mainly involves three contents current: corporate users, rural households individual users. Based above literature analysis, this proposes theoretical labeling.