Is the garden green? The paradox of consumer motivations for gardening and substrate preferences
• Two step Q-approach investigating gardening motivations and actions on substrates. • Identifying three perspectives on gardening motivation of hobby gardeners. • Identification of four perspectives on substrate consumption of hobby gardeners.. • Disconnection of gardening motivation and consumer action on substrates • Gardening and substrate choices are not tightly connected.
Authors
- Benedikt Rilling (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6848-5786)
- Carsten Herbes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0670-8045)
- Holger Braun (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-7289-2728)
- Terese Venus
Institutions
- University of Hohenheim (DE)
- University of Passau (DE)
- Nürtingen-Geislingen University of Applied Science (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Ecological Economics
- Published
- 2026-05-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2026.109090
- Primary Topic
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
- Fachagentur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe