Consumers' trust is a key factor in dealing with rising concerns about food safety and food quality, but only few studies have dealt with consumer attitudes and none of them has tried to model the process of consumer response. This book reports the main findings of an european project aimed at analysing trust along the food chain and its relationship with food risk communication. The papers collected investigate the mechanisms that determine the social diffusion of trust, examiConsumers trust is a key factor in dealing with rising concerns about food safety and food quality, but only few studies have dealt with consumer attitudes and none of them has tried to model the process of consumer response. This book reports the main findings of an european project aimed at analysing trust along the food chain and its relationship with food risk communication. The papers collected investigate the mechanisms that determine the social diffusion of trust, examining the interplay of the psychological, sociological and economic factors; and analyze the impact of the food risk communication policies on consumers and producers and on the society as a whole.ning the interplay of the psychological, sociological and economic factors; and analyze the impact of the food risk communication policies on consumers and producers and on the society as a whole.
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Titolo del libro
How safe is eating chicken?
Sottotitolo del libro
A study on the impact of trust and food risk communication on consumer behaviour in the European Union
Curatori
Donato Romano, Gianluca Stefani
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
154
Anno di pubblicazione
2006
Copyright
© 2006 Author(s)
Licenza d'uso
Licenza dei metadati
Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-109-0
ISBN Print
88-8453-496-8
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-6453-109-0
eISBN (xml)
978-88-5518-767-1
Collana
Proceedings e report
ISSN della collana
2704-601X
e-ISSN della collana
2704-5846