Abstract
Pro-environmental behavior is an individual action as a manifestation of one’s responsibility to create a sustainable environment. University students as one of the agent of change can adopt pro-environmental behaviors concept, even through simple things to do on daily activities such as ride a bicycle or walk for short distance, reuse the shopping bags, separate waste, learn about environmental issues etc. Many studies have examined pro-environmental behavior from various approaches. However, the study about university students’ pro-environmental behavior is lacking. The aim of this paper is to examine the undergraduate students’ pro-environmental behaviors level. We surveyed 364 first year undergraduate students from a state university in Semarang. The survey included six aspects of pro-environmental behavior in daily practice which include energy conservation, mobility and transportation, waste avoidance, recycling, consumerism, and vicarious behaviors toward conservation. Findings of this study showed the level of pro-environmental behavior of first year undergraduate students is medium. Recommendations for undergraduate students and future researchers are discussed.
Highlights
IntroductionPro-environmental behavior (PEB) is an individual action as a manifestation of one‟s responsibility to create a sustainable environment
Pro-environmental behavior (PEB) is an individual action as a manifestation of one‟s responsibility to create a sustainable environment. It will be based on the presence of a wide range of environmental problems that threaten environmental sustainability [1] for example, IPCC reported that climate change had affected the nature and human life [2]
The students show that they are most concerns with energy conservation. It was similar with case in Ohio Wesleyan University (OWU) which in general the students are concerned with energy conservation and recycling than another aspect of proenvironmental behavior [10]
Summary
Pro-environmental behavior (PEB) is an individual action as a manifestation of one‟s responsibility to create a sustainable environment. It will be based on the presence of a wide range of environmental problems that threaten environmental sustainability [1] for example, IPCC reported that climate change had affected the nature and human life [2]. First year for the university (undergraduate) students is an important phase to adapt to life at the university, where the literature consistently mentions that first year was an important stage in shaping student attitudes and affects the persistence [8] In this situation, proenvironmental behaviour adopting the process is very. The aim of this paper is to examine freshmen‟ proenvironmental behaviors level
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