Abstract
Environmental commitment to sustainability is one of the most critical issues in the “emerging contaminants”, few studies have examined the role of commitment to pro-environmental behavior and environmental concerns. This study aimed to explore the relationship between environmental commitment and three forms of emotional association: place attachment and social identity, connectedness and concerned about nature. Using 1288 respondents and a structural equation modeling approach, results show that connection to nature enhanced social identity, place attachment, and environmental concern, which in turn increased environmental commitment to sustainability. Place attachment was not related to environmental commitment to sustainability. Further analysis suggested that the theoretical model relationship between connection to nature and environmental commitment to sustainability was mediated by social identity and environmental concern. The findings of this research can offer guidelines for policy makers and green educators who evaluate an environmental commitment so as to provide proper beliefs association with nature and promote social identity and place attachment by emerging contaminants in educational activities. This demonstrates the importance of using a series of robustness of social identity and place attachment instruments and more environmental concern to promote environmental commitment to sustainability. Interpretation of the findings reveals the potential role that environmental commitment to sustainability can play as a hub and catalyst for major emerging contaminants change by fostering recognition of environmental commitment as a way of change and combine schools and government sectors to connect the micro- and macro-levels.
Highlights
Over the past several decades, corporations have pursued a fast-growing growth paradigm that dominates our world’s modern ecosystem, regardless of social, economic, and environmental sustainability
The third indicator referred to the average variance extracted (AVE), the AVE values ranged from 0.479–0.874, which showed that this study has better discriminant validity and convergent validity
This study clearly identified that the foundation of effective environmental commitment is not place attachment transfer and arousal, pleasure, and involvement with the place from one individual to the but a transfer of connection to nature that forms social identity and environmental concern
Summary
Over the past several decades, corporations have pursued a fast-growing growth paradigm that dominates our world’s modern ecosystem, regardless of social, economic, and environmental sustainability. Pro-environmental behavior has been identified as a critical issue to address the emerging contaminants (ECs) that result from globalization and contemporary society. The toxicity of environmental hormones was evaluated as early as the 1970s, but their toxicity continues to threaten people and other forms of life on Earth. Harrison and Hester [5] noted that there is considerable evidence that environmental hormones can cause serious harm to humans and other organisms, such as hindering and destroying reproductive function; causing infertility, early female development, and a decreased number and quality of male sperm (Nollet, 2011 [6]); or triggering malignant tumors, such as liver cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer, pancreatic cancer, etc. The effects caused by environmental hormones are partly irreversible reactions in the environment, and the continued deterioration they cause will be a dominant issue in the near future
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