Thomas Bøker Lund
Biographic Data
| ID | 143142 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Bøker Lund |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas Bøker |
| FAMILY NAME | Lund |
| SIGNATURE | LUND T B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5282-1562 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 96 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Negotiating Organic Meat Consumption in Light of Higher Prices, Climate, and Other Ethical Concerns: A Qualitative Study Among Danish Organic Consumers
Research on organic food consumption tends to focus on organic food in general or on products with high organic market share, overlooking how product-specific characteristics may shape distinct consumption patterns, especially as food prices increase and concerns evolve. This paper focuses on organic meat, a product particularly affected by declining organic retail sales in Denmark. We examine how consumers negotiate rising food prices, climate c…
The shift to plant-rich diets in Denmark: A discussion on what we know, do not know, and what comes next
Affect in dietary change: A longitudinal study of the role of affect in sustaining plant-rich eating
Debates on sustainability transitions often turn to the mundane practices of consumption. Still, we know surprisingly little about how people who actively alter their daily routines towards sustainability engage affectively with these changes, and how affect develops and shifts in character over time. To advance research on this, this study explores the role of affect in transitions to and in sustaining a plant-rich diet. We use a longitudinal qu…
Dog Owners’ Use of Training Methods and Their Ethical Stance on the Treatment of Animals
The relationship between ethical orientations and owners' choice of dog training methods is not well understood. This study explored whether animal ethics orientation is associated with the use of positive reinforcement training (Positive Training) or the use of physically aversive methods, such as prong collars or citronella spray (Physical Correction). The Multidimensional Measure of Animal Ethics Orientation was used to assess animal ethics or…
Fascinating and favourable to most, but also frustrating and fearful to some: A study of Danish citizens' perception of trophic rewilding
In Denmark, trophic rewilding in state‐owned, fenced‐off nature areas open to the public has given rise to fierce debates about recreational impacts. Based on a nationally representative survey ( n = 5061) in 2022, we report overall attitude, interest in visiting, and changes in intended visit frequency. Associational analyses included two belief constructs (costs and benefits), four sociodemographic variables (gender, age, education and residenc…
Social network research and meat reduction – An overview of research directions and results from a study in Denmark
Reducing the current level of meat consumption would reap significant environmental benefits. However, a consumer transition towards more plant-rich eating is lagging, and the social sciences have had limited success in understanding behavioural change in this area. Here, we advocate a research agenda focussing on the role social networks could play in encouraging consumers to eat less meat. We present main research directions in social network t…
Is it good to feel bad about unsustainable behaviours? Reflexivity around environmental emotions
Environmental problems abound and it can be difficult for individuals to know how to act for the best. Moreover, knowing how we should feel about these problems and our potential actions has become increasingly unclear and confusing. Navigating these complexities involves reflecting on one’s own and other people’s emotions. This article explores how individuals put their emotional reflexivity to use in relation to two specific environmental emoti…
How Is Human Socioeconomic Position Linked With Dog Ownership Practices? A Study From Denmark
Connections between dog ownership and socioeconomic position (SEP) are not well understood. This study examined associations between family and neighborhood levels of SEP and dog ownership, dog acquisition factors (purchase price and breed characteristics), and the purposes of owning a dog based on data from a survey carried out in Denmark in 2021. Participants (aged 18–89 years) were recruited using probability sampling (n = 2,112). Stepwise mul…
The public’s intention to vote for continued use of woody biomass for energy in Denmark: A cognitive hierarchy perspective
Exploring everyday life dynamics in meat reduction - A cluster analysis of flexitarians in Denmark
Exploring everyday life dynamics in meat reduction - a cluster analysis of flexitarians in Denmark. Flexitarians are attracting increasing attention in the research on meat reduction. But there has been limited focus on comprehensive understandings of a broader range of dynamics that can work as barriers and facilitators for meat reduction. In this article, we use social practice theory (SPT) as a comprehensive approach to barriers and facilitato…
Various ways towards animal product limiting – Practical and social engagements in initial phase of dietary change
Reducing one's consumption of foods containing animal products, or avoiding such foods altogether, has become part of everyday life for many people in the Western world. People's motivations for such "animal product limiting" are well-established, but the ways in which individuals enact and experience dietary change in the initial phase are not well understood. Nor is it clear whether, and how, these people present their dietary changes to others…
Adapting to financial pressure on household food budgets in Denmark: Associations with life satisfaction and dietary health
In countries with wide income differentials, food insecurity leads to substantial changes in everyday food practices and to poor dietary and mental health. Less is known about consequences of food budget pressure in affluent populations and in social-democratic welfare societies with narrower income differentials. This paper describes relations between pressure on household food budgets and demographic factors in Denmark. It asks how budgetary co…
The consequences of unemployment on diet composition and purchase behaviour: A longitudinal study from Denmark
Objective To explore and describe quantitatively the effect over time of unemployment on food purchase behaviour and diet composition. Design Longitudinal data from 2008–2012, with monthly food purchase data aligned with register data on unemployment measured as a dichotomous indicator as well as a trend accounting for the duration. Setting A household panel which registers daily food purchases combined with detailed nutritional information and r…
Roaming Companion Cats as Potential Causes of Conflict and Controversy: A Representative Questionnaire Study of the Danish Public
Cats have grown in popularity as companion animals, but there are also people who strongly dislike them. Companion cats allowed to roam freely outdoors are seen by some as a nuisance. This paper, drawing on research conducted in Denmark, aims to quantify potentially conflicting attitudes to cats among the public that may feed into cat-related conflicts and controversies. Questionnaire data were collected from a representative sample of the Danish…
E ating out in four Nordic countries: National patterns and social stratification
Changes in the social context and conduct of eating in four Nordic countries between 1997 and 2012
Animal Ethics Profiling of Vegetarians, Vegans and Meat-Eaters
The aims of this study were to identify the animal ethical profile of vegetarians, vegans, and meat eaters. Using questionnaire data collected in 2013 (N=356), we measured propensity to subscribe to five different positions within animal ethics based on a novel measure of animal ethical stance (adopted from the ‘Animal Ethics Dilemma’ learning tool). We found clear relationships between diet choice and ethical profile. The responses of meat eater…
Who is Cooking Dinner: Changes in the Gendering of Cooking from 1997 To 2012 in Four Nordic Countries
We analyze how the gendered division of cooking activities has changed in Nordic households over the period 1997–2012. Historically, food preparation and household cooking have been assigned to women, and cooking has been linked to female gender roles and identity. However, with women's increasing participation in the workforce, men have increased their contribution to household work and the gendering of food work is changing. Little is known abo…
The Taste of ‘the End of the Month’, and How to Avoid It: Coping with Restrained Food Budgets in a Scandinavian Welfare State Context
Based on a mixed methods approach, this article describes the prevalence of different levels of food budget restraints in a sample of 1,650 Danish households, and explores different types of coping strategies to deal with such restraints. Strategies concerned cooking, eating and buying food. A deeper knowledge of coping strategies was obtained by analysing qualitative data from interviews with thirty families who have experienced food budget rest…
Painful dilemmas: A study of the way the public’s assessment of animal research balances costs to animals against human benefits
The conflict between animal costs and human benefits has dominated public as well as academic debates about animal research. However, surveys of public perceptions of animal research rarely focus on this part of attitude formation. This paper traces the prevalence of different attitudes to animal research in the public when people are asked to take benefit and cost considerations into account concurrently. Results from the examination of two repr…
Destructuration or continuity? The daily rhythm of eating in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden in 1997 and 2012
Associations between meal complexity and social context in four Nordic countries
Contemporary eating is often portrayed by images of snacking, solitary grazing, disintegration of sociability, demise of family meals, and increasingly irregular eating patterns -what Claude Fischler has famously described as gastroanomy. Inspired by the concept of eating system, this article contributes to the discussion about the ongoing changes by examining the relation between meal complexity, sociability and the duration of meals in contempo…
Explorations in cross-national comparison of food practices
The Emergence of Diverse Organic Consumers: Does a Mature Market Undermine the Search for Alternative Products
This study uses qualitative and quantitative data as well as household panel data regarding actual purchases of organic food in order to make a psychographic profiling of organic consumers and examine recent developments of organic demand inDenmark. It is shown that contemporary organic consumers have become a heterogeneous group, since three distinct positively minded segments are identified. These positively minded segments hold a very high sha…
The modernisation of Nordic eating: Studying changes and stabilities in eating patterns
On prétend souvent que dans les sociétés post-industrielles l'alimentation est caractérisée par la dissolution des schémas culturels traditionnels concernant les rythmes alimentaires, la structure des repas et le contexte social de la prise des repas. Cet article présente les résultats d'une étude quantitative et comparative menée en Scandinavieen 1997 , fondée sur des interviews de près de 5000 individus de quatre pays nordiques (Danemark, Finla…
Destructuration or continuity? The daily rhythm of eating in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden in 1997 and 2012
Animal Ethics Profiling of Vegetarians, Vegans and Meat-Eaters
The aims of this study were to identify the animal ethical profile of vegetarians, vegans, and meat eaters. Using questionnaire data collected in 2013 (N=356), we measured propensity to subscribe to five different positions within animal ethics based on a novel measure of animal ethical stance (adopted from the ‘Animal Ethics Dilemma’ learning tool). We found clear relationships between diet choice and ethical profile. The responses of meat eater…
The modernisation of Nordic eating: Studying changes and stabilities in eating patterns
On prétend souvent que dans les sociétés post-industrielles l'alimentation est caractérisée par la dissolution des schémas culturels traditionnels concernant les rythmes alimentaires, la structure des repas et le contexte social de la prise des repas. Cet article présente les résultats d'une étude quantitative et comparative menée en Scandinavieen 1997 , fondée sur des interviews de près de 5000 individus de quatre pays nordiques (Danemark, Finla…
Changes in the social context and conduct of eating in four Nordic countries between 1997 and 2012
Who is Cooking Dinner: Changes in the Gendering of Cooking from 1997 To 2012 in Four Nordic Countries
We analyze how the gendered division of cooking activities has changed in Nordic households over the period 1997–2012. Historically, food preparation and household cooking have been assigned to women, and cooking has been linked to female gender roles and identity. However, with women's increasing participation in the workforce, men have increased their contribution to household work and the gendering of food work is changing. Little is known abo…
Exploring everyday life dynamics in meat reduction - A cluster analysis of flexitarians in Denmark
Exploring everyday life dynamics in meat reduction - a cluster analysis of flexitarians in Denmark. Flexitarians are attracting increasing attention in the research on meat reduction. But there has been limited focus on comprehensive understandings of a broader range of dynamics that can work as barriers and facilitators for meat reduction. In this article, we use social practice theory (SPT) as a comprehensive approach to barriers and facilitato…
E ating out in four Nordic countries: National patterns and social stratification
The Taste of ‘the End of the Month’, and How to Avoid It: Coping with Restrained Food Budgets in a Scandinavian Welfare State Context
Based on a mixed methods approach, this article describes the prevalence of different levels of food budget restraints in a sample of 1,650 Danish households, and explores different types of coping strategies to deal with such restraints. Strategies concerned cooking, eating and buying food. A deeper knowledge of coping strategies was obtained by analysing qualitative data from interviews with thirty families who have experienced food budget rest…
Adapting to financial pressure on household food budgets in Denmark: Associations with life satisfaction and dietary health
In countries with wide income differentials, food insecurity leads to substantial changes in everyday food practices and to poor dietary and mental health. Less is known about consequences of food budget pressure in affluent populations and in social-democratic welfare societies with narrower income differentials. This paper describes relations between pressure on household food budgets and demographic factors in Denmark. It asks how budgetary co…
The Emergence of Diverse Organic Consumers: Does a Mature Market Undermine the Search for Alternative Products
This study uses qualitative and quantitative data as well as household panel data regarding actual purchases of organic food in order to make a psychographic profiling of organic consumers and examine recent developments of organic demand inDenmark. It is shown that contemporary organic consumers have become a heterogeneous group, since three distinct positively minded segments are identified. These positively minded segments hold a very high sha…
Public Attitude Formation Regarding Animal Research
A number of attitudinal studies have examined support for the use of animals in research. However, on the whole they have come to rather different conclusions. In our reasearch, which is based on focus group discussions held in Denmark, we attempted to explain this variation by examining the way the relevant attitudes are formed. Although our participants had only limited knowledge of, and interest in, animal use in research, they were perfecly c…
Associations between meal complexity and social context in four Nordic countries
Contemporary eating is often portrayed by images of snacking, solitary grazing, disintegration of sociability, demise of family meals, and increasingly irregular eating patterns -what Claude Fischler has famously described as gastroanomy. Inspired by the concept of eating system, this article contributes to the discussion about the ongoing changes by examining the relation between meal complexity, sociability and the duration of meals in contempo…
Is it good to feel bad about unsustainable behaviours? Reflexivity around environmental emotions
Environmental problems abound and it can be difficult for individuals to know how to act for the best. Moreover, knowing how we should feel about these problems and our potential actions has become increasingly unclear and confusing. Navigating these complexities involves reflecting on one’s own and other people’s emotions. This article explores how individuals put their emotional reflexivity to use in relation to two specific environmental emoti…
How Is Human Socioeconomic Position Linked With Dog Ownership Practices? A Study From Denmark
Connections between dog ownership and socioeconomic position (SEP) are not well understood. This study examined associations between family and neighborhood levels of SEP and dog ownership, dog acquisition factors (purchase price and breed characteristics), and the purposes of owning a dog based on data from a survey carried out in Denmark in 2021. Participants (aged 18–89 years) were recruited using probability sampling (n = 2,112). Stepwise mul…
Various ways towards animal product limiting – Practical and social engagements in initial phase of dietary change
Reducing one's consumption of foods containing animal products, or avoiding such foods altogether, has become part of everyday life for many people in the Western world. People's motivations for such "animal product limiting" are well-established, but the ways in which individuals enact and experience dietary change in the initial phase are not well understood. Nor is it clear whether, and how, these people present their dietary changes to others…
The modernisation of Nordic eating: Studying changes and stabilities in eating patterns
On prétend souvent que dans les sociétés post-industrielles l'alimentation est caractérisée par la dissolution des schémas culturels traditionnels concernant les rythmes alimentaires, la structure des repas et le contexte social de la prise des repas. Cet article présente les résultats d'une étude quantitative et comparative menée en Scandinavieen 1997 , fondée sur des interviews de près de 5000 individus de quatre pays nordiques (Danemark, Finla…
Nordic Food Culture
Public Attitude Formation Regarding Animal Research
A number of attitudinal studies have examined support for the use of animals in research. However, on the whole they have come to rather different conclusions. In our reasearch, which is based on focus group discussions held in Denmark, we attempted to explain this variation by examining the way the relevant attitudes are formed. Although our participants had only limited knowledge of, and interest in, animal use in research, they were perfecly c…
The Emergence of Diverse Organic Consumers: Does a Mature Market Undermine the Search for Alternative Products
This study uses qualitative and quantitative data as well as household panel data regarding actual purchases of organic food in order to make a psychographic profiling of organic consumers and examine recent developments of organic demand inDenmark. It is shown that contemporary organic consumers have become a heterogeneous group, since three distinct positively minded segments are identified. These positively minded segments hold a very high sha…
Painful dilemmas: A study of the way the public’s assessment of animal research balances costs to animals against human benefits
The conflict between animal costs and human benefits has dominated public as well as academic debates about animal research. However, surveys of public perceptions of animal research rarely focus on this part of attitude formation. This paper traces the prevalence of different attitudes to animal research in the public when people are asked to take benefit and cost considerations into account concurrently. Results from the examination of two repr…
Destructuration or continuity? The daily rhythm of eating in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden in 1997 and 2012
Associations between meal complexity and social context in four Nordic countries
Contemporary eating is often portrayed by images of snacking, solitary grazing, disintegration of sociability, demise of family meals, and increasingly irregular eating patterns -what Claude Fischler has famously described as gastroanomy. Inspired by the concept of eating system, this article contributes to the discussion about the ongoing changes by examining the relation between meal complexity, sociability and the duration of meals in contempo…
Explorations in cross-national comparison of food practices
Who is Cooking Dinner: Changes in the Gendering of Cooking from 1997 To 2012 in Four Nordic Countries
We analyze how the gendered division of cooking activities has changed in Nordic households over the period 1997–2012. Historically, food preparation and household cooking have been assigned to women, and cooking has been linked to female gender roles and identity. However, with women's increasing participation in the workforce, men have increased their contribution to household work and the gendering of food work is changing. Little is known abo…
The Taste of ‘the End of the Month’, and How to Avoid It: Coping with Restrained Food Budgets in a Scandinavian Welfare State Context
Based on a mixed methods approach, this article describes the prevalence of different levels of food budget restraints in a sample of 1,650 Danish households, and explores different types of coping strategies to deal with such restraints. Strategies concerned cooking, eating and buying food. A deeper knowledge of coping strategies was obtained by analysing qualitative data from interviews with thirty families who have experienced food budget rest…
Changes in the social context and conduct of eating in four Nordic countries between 1997 and 2012
Animal Ethics Profiling of Vegetarians, Vegans and Meat-Eaters
The aims of this study were to identify the animal ethical profile of vegetarians, vegans, and meat eaters. Using questionnaire data collected in 2013 (N=356), we measured propensity to subscribe to five different positions within animal ethics based on a novel measure of animal ethical stance (adopted from the ‘Animal Ethics Dilemma’ learning tool). We found clear relationships between diet choice and ethical profile. The responses of meat eater…
E ating out in four Nordic countries: National patterns and social stratification
The consequences of unemployment on diet composition and purchase behaviour: A longitudinal study from Denmark
Objective To explore and describe quantitatively the effect over time of unemployment on food purchase behaviour and diet composition. Design Longitudinal data from 2008–2012, with monthly food purchase data aligned with register data on unemployment measured as a dichotomous indicator as well as a trend accounting for the duration. Setting A household panel which registers daily food purchases combined with detailed nutritional information and r…
Roaming Companion Cats as Potential Causes of Conflict and Controversy: A Representative Questionnaire Study of the Danish Public
Cats have grown in popularity as companion animals, but there are also people who strongly dislike them. Companion cats allowed to roam freely outdoors are seen by some as a nuisance. This paper, drawing on research conducted in Denmark, aims to quantify potentially conflicting attitudes to cats among the public that may feed into cat-related conflicts and controversies. Questionnaire data were collected from a representative sample of the Danish…
Adapting to financial pressure on household food budgets in Denmark: Associations with life satisfaction and dietary health
In countries with wide income differentials, food insecurity leads to substantial changes in everyday food practices and to poor dietary and mental health. Less is known about consequences of food budget pressure in affluent populations and in social-democratic welfare societies with narrower income differentials. This paper describes relations between pressure on household food budgets and demographic factors in Denmark. It asks how budgetary co…
The public’s intention to vote for continued use of woody biomass for energy in Denmark: A cognitive hierarchy perspective
Exploring everyday life dynamics in meat reduction - A cluster analysis of flexitarians in Denmark
Exploring everyday life dynamics in meat reduction - a cluster analysis of flexitarians in Denmark. Flexitarians are attracting increasing attention in the research on meat reduction. But there has been limited focus on comprehensive understandings of a broader range of dynamics that can work as barriers and facilitators for meat reduction. In this article, we use social practice theory (SPT) as a comprehensive approach to barriers and facilitato…
Various ways towards animal product limiting – Practical and social engagements in initial phase of dietary change
Reducing one's consumption of foods containing animal products, or avoiding such foods altogether, has become part of everyday life for many people in the Western world. People's motivations for such "animal product limiting" are well-established, but the ways in which individuals enact and experience dietary change in the initial phase are not well understood. Nor is it clear whether, and how, these people present their dietary changes to others…
Social network research and meat reduction – An overview of research directions and results from a study in Denmark
Reducing the current level of meat consumption would reap significant environmental benefits. However, a consumer transition towards more plant-rich eating is lagging, and the social sciences have had limited success in understanding behavioural change in this area. Here, we advocate a research agenda focussing on the role social networks could play in encouraging consumers to eat less meat. We present main research directions in social network t…
Is it good to feel bad about unsustainable behaviours? Reflexivity around environmental emotions
Environmental problems abound and it can be difficult for individuals to know how to act for the best. Moreover, knowing how we should feel about these problems and our potential actions has become increasingly unclear and confusing. Navigating these complexities involves reflecting on one’s own and other people’s emotions. This article explores how individuals put their emotional reflexivity to use in relation to two specific environmental emoti…
How Is Human Socioeconomic Position Linked With Dog Ownership Practices? A Study From Denmark
Connections between dog ownership and socioeconomic position (SEP) are not well understood. This study examined associations between family and neighborhood levels of SEP and dog ownership, dog acquisition factors (purchase price and breed characteristics), and the purposes of owning a dog based on data from a survey carried out in Denmark in 2021. Participants (aged 18–89 years) were recruited using probability sampling (n = 2,112). Stepwise mul…
Fascinating and favourable to most, but also frustrating and fearful to some: A study of Danish citizens' perception of trophic rewilding
In Denmark, trophic rewilding in state‐owned, fenced‐off nature areas open to the public has given rise to fierce debates about recreational impacts. Based on a nationally representative survey ( n = 5061) in 2022, we report overall attitude, interest in visiting, and changes in intended visit frequency. Associational analyses included two belief constructs (costs and benefits), four sociodemographic variables (gender, age, education and residenc…
Negotiating Organic Meat Consumption in Light of Higher Prices, Climate, and Other Ethical Concerns: A Qualitative Study Among Danish Organic Consumers
Research on organic food consumption tends to focus on organic food in general or on products with high organic market share, overlooking how product-specific characteristics may shape distinct consumption patterns, especially as food prices increase and concerns evolve. This paper focuses on organic meat, a product particularly affected by declining organic retail sales in Denmark. We examine how consumers negotiate rising food prices, climate c…
The shift to plant-rich diets in Denmark: A discussion on what we know, do not know, and what comes next
Psychology (15 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (6 works) · Danish (6 works) · Organic Food and Agriculture (6 works) · Political science (6 works)