Effects Of Environmental Knowledge Research Articles

The Effect of Environmental Knowledge and Perceived Value on Visitor Experience in Forest Recreation

The Effect of Environmental Knowledge and Perceived Value on Visitor Experience in Forest Recreation

The effect of green purchase intention on emerging market consumers’ clothing purchase behaviour in South Africa

The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of the green purchase intention of emerging market consumers on their green purchase behaviour in South Africa. The calls by the United Nations’ (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for consumers and organizations to act and behave sustainably have generated much interest in green consumer behaviour. In SA, calls have also been made for clothing companies to create awareness about the impact of clothing buyer behaviour on the environment. Organizations should also enhance consumer knowledge of their green buying behaviour and the effect this has on the environment. A survey was conducted online among the emerging consumers in Soweto, Johannesburg, targeting 300 respondents. The results confirmed that environmental knowledge and social/peer influence have an impact on green purchase intention and that green purchase intention does influence consumer behaviour. The effect of green purchase intention on green clothing behaviour was found to be higher than the effect of environmental knowledge and social/peer pressure on purchase intention. Clothing firms and policymakers should focus on raising awareness, disseminating information, and using peer pressure to enhance customers' inclination to make environmentally friendly purchases. This, in turn, will impact the buying behaviour of consumers in emerging markets.

Understanding residents’ environmental responsible behaviour: a cognition – affection – attitude – behaviour model perspective

ABSTRACT Current research examined the interplay between cognition (environmental knowledge), affection (environmental sensitivity), attitude (place attachment and sustainable attitude) and behaviour (environmental responsible behaviour and support for sustainable tourism development). Three hundred and eighty-eight residents were surveyed. Structural equation modelling was employed to test direct and indirect relationships among study constructs. Structural model results found environmental knowledge as significant predictor of sustainable attitude than environmental sensitivity. Whereas, effect of environmental knowledge on environmental sensitivity was found significant. Further, empirical findings discovered sustainable attitude as more important predictor of place attachment than environmental sensitivity. Subsequently, the effect of place attachment on environmental responsible behaviour was found positive and significant. Finally, study model confirmed residents’ environmental responsible behaviour as more important predictor of support for sustainable tourism development than place attachment. It is suggested that sustainable tourism be promoted and implemented, and its managerial implications are discussed.

Tourists' environmentally responsible behavior: A new path of sustainable development of grassland tourism

AbstractDeeply exploring the formation path of tourists' environmentally responsible behavior is of great significance to standardize tourists' behavior and protect the environment of grassland tourist attractions. In this paper, an integrated model that mainly discussed two parts was explored by the stimulus–organism–response (S‐O‐R) theory adopting structural equation model (SEM) and multi‐group analysis (MGA). The first part is the direct role of the service quality, subjective norms, and environmental knowledge in motivating tourists' behavioral attitude and place attachment, as well as the indirect role of those three variables in shaping environmentally responsible behavior. As the second part, the potential moderating influence of visitor gender on the model is also discussed extensively in the paper. According to a survey of grassland tourists (n = 484) from Gansu and Qinghai provinces in China, it could be found that both environmental knowledge through behavioral attitude and service quality through local attachment have indirectly influence on environmentally responsible behavior. Direct and indirect effects of subjective norms on environmentally responsible behavior exist, and the indirect effects are based on behavioral attitude and local attachments. There is a significant moderating effect of gender on the effects of environmental knowledge on behavioral attitude, service quality, and subjective norms on place attachment. Finally, the future research directions were proposed based on existing limitations.

Renting than Buying Apparel: U.S. Consumer Collaborative Consumption for Sustainability

Apparel rental service is a business model that is becoming increasingly popular in recent years as consumers become more conscious of their environmental impact and look for ways to reduce waste and save money. However, our knowledge on this changing consumer behavior is scant. To address the gap in the literature, this study aimed to identify the determinants driving U.S. consumers’ intention to use apparel rental services. Building on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), a research model was proposed. The primary data were gathered by an online survey of U.S. consumers through Qualtrics. A total of 338 eligible responses were obtained for data analysis and hypothesis testing. The results show that attitude, subjective norms, perceived consumer effectiveness, environmental knowledge, perceived personal relevance, and past environmental behavior significantly influence U.S. consumers’ intention to adopt apparel rental services. In addition, attitude plays a partial mediating role in the effects of environmental knowledge and perceived personal relevance on U.S. consumers’ intent to use apparel rental services. The demographic variables including age, gender, education level, and income level do not significantly influence U.S. consumer intention to rent apparel. The proposed research model exhibits a high explanatory power, collectively accounting for 74.7% of the variance in U.S. consumers’ intention to adopt apparel rental services.

The Effect of Environmental Knowledge, Local Wisdom, and Attitudes Towards Community Behavior in Managing Waste in Large-Type Housing in Soppeng Regency

The purpose of this study was to determine: (1) waste management behavior, environmental knowledge, local wisdom, and attitudes towards the community environment in a large-type housing complex in Soppeng Regency, (2) the influence of environmental knowledge, local wisdom, and attitudes towards the environment itself alone and jointly on the behavior of the community in managing waste in a large-type housing complex in Soppeng Regency. This type of research is correlational research. The research is located in a large type housing complex in Soppeng Regency. The population of this study is the head of the family who lives in a large type housing complex in Soppeng Regency. The sample area is one large type of housing complex selected by purposive sampling method. Respondents of 50 families were selected by systematic random sampling method. The dependent variable of the study is the behavior of managing waste (Y). The independent variables (X) are: (a) environmental knowledge (X1); (b) local wisdom (X2); and (c) environmental attitude (X3). The data analysis technique used are descriptive statistical analysis and infrensial statistical analysis. The analytical model used are simple regression and multiple regression. The results showed that: (1) waste management behavior, environmental knowledge, local wisdom, and attitudes towards the community environment in a large type housing complex in Soppeng Regency were classified as low, (2) partially and jointly, environmental knowledge, local wisdom, and environmental attitudes have a very significant effect and give a real contribution to people's behavior in managing waste in a large type housing complex in Soppeng Regency.

The effects of environmental knowledge and green products awareness on green management and sustainable performance: Evidence from manufacturing sector in UAE

This research intends to figure the antecedents of Green Management and its implementation in manufacturing sector companies in UAE. The study also intends to explore the relationship between the implementation of green management and sustainable performance as measured by complied scale of social, economic and environmental performance. Quantitative research methods are used and the necessary data are collected from 134 companies by using google form survey sent to participants. Statistical Package of Social Sciences (SPSS) Version 22 is used to analyze the data. The findings of this research reveal that managers’ environmental knowledge and managers’ green product awareness were positively and significantly associated with green management and that green management was also positively and significantly associated with sustainable performance.

The environmental practice of resorts and tourist loyalty: the role of environmental knowledge, concern, and behaviour

This study investigates the moderating effects of environmental knowledge, environmental concern, and the direct and indirect environmental behaviours of tourists, on the relationship between the environmental practices of resorts and tourists’ loyalty. The respondents were 529 guests of lake and river resorts in Peninsular Malaysia. The data were analysed using the partial least squares technique. The findings indicate that the effect of resorts’ environmental practices on loyalty is greater among tourists who have a higher level of environmental concern and who behave directly or indirectly in a more environmentally friendly manner. However, environmental knowledge has no moderating effect. The study provides useful information for resort managers to improve their environmental practices and increase tourists’ environmental concern and behaviour.

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The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of consumer's environmental knowledge, eco-friendly attitude and purchase intention about fashion consumers' eco-friendly products. This study was conducted by a survey of 330 males and females fashion consumers in their 20s-40s who experienced eco-friendly fashion products purchase. Respondents, who had purchased eco-friendly fashion items at least once, were selected using convenience sampling through the online survey from March <TEX>$20^{th}$</TEX> to <TEX>$30^{th}$</TEX> in 2013. The collected materials were analyzed by frequency analysis, factor analysis, t-test and multi-regression using SPSS 19.0 software. Through the result of statistical analysis, it is found that environmental knowledge has three dimensions; natural environmental knowledge, urbanized environmental knowledge, environmental pollution knowledge. Also the effects of environmental knowledge on eco-friendly attitude are significant and eco-friendly attitude has influence on eco-friendly fashion products purchase behavior. Eco-friendly attitude had an effect word of mouth intention. In addition, there are notable differences in environmental knowledge, eco-friendly attitude and purchase intention depending on fashion consumer's age. The results of this study will provide useful information for both eco-friendly customer management and fashion marketing strategies. Therefore, the fashion company is needed to consider personal characteristics, customer needs and present condition of purchasing eco-friendly fashion products.

An examination of green intention: the effect of environmental knowledge and educational experiences on meeting planners’ implementation of green meeting practices

Environmental sustainability has become an important concern in staging meetings and events. This paper introduces the Convention Industry Council's Green Meetings Report and goes on to investigate whether prior knowledge and educational experiences related to environmental sustainability are influential factors in planners’ commitment to engaging in ecologically friendly behavior. Using a nine-point questionnaire, 278 delegates at North America's largest one-day event for meeting planners were sampled. Regression analysis showed that the intention to implement green meeting practices is positively influenced by both prior knowledge of and educational experience with greening practices. In particular, educational experiences were found to be a strong influential factor contributing to meeting planners’ intention to implement green meeting practices. By providing operational definitions of knowledge and education, it proves that knowledge gained by an unstructured format was less effective than the impact of education on green intention. Accordingly, this study not only highlights academic discussions on environmental knowledge-building through formal education but also derives managerial implications for the meeting and event industry by outlining ways to incorporate continuing professional education in sustainable meetings and events. A range of ideas for the content of that professional education is presented, along with the possibilities for e-learning.

Gender and Concern for Environmental Issues in Urban China

Little research exists on Chinese people's environmental concern, despite China's great global environmental impacts. This study brings four hypotheses of gendered difference in environmental concern commonly found in Western literature to urban China, using a national data set of the 2003 China General Social Survey. Structural equation modeling was applied to examine the interaction effects of gender, employment status, and parental roles, and the intervening effects of environmental knowledge. Results show that, unlike in the West, men in urban China were more concerned with environmental issues than women. However, findings of men's greater environmental knowledge relative to women, higher concerns for pollution issues than other issues among Chinese women, and little effect of employment status and parental role on environmental concern are largely consistent with the Western literature. The applicability of common hypotheses from the West may be less limited than expected in the context of China.

The Roles of Knowledge, Threat, and PCE on Green Purchase Behaviour

With an increasing pressure of environmental deterioration, many firms have started to be socially responsible by developing green products to meet the demand of environmentally conscious consumers. These firms are interested in finding the determinants of green purchase behaviour in order to develop effective communication messages and derive green purchase commitments. The effects of environmental knowledge, environmental threat and perceived consumer effectiveness (PCE) in motivating one’s behavioural change to engage in pro-environmental behaviour have been tested in the past, but they have not been tested together in the context of green purchase behaviour in Malaysia. Therefore, this paper reviews the conceptual and empirical literatures of the aforementioned variables in explaining the environmental attitude and behaviour, and proposes a conceptual model to be considered for future green purchase behavioural studies. The finding is expected to provide guidance for firms to profile the green buyers and position its green product more effectively.

What determines urban households’ willingness to pay for CO2 emission reductions in Turkey: A contingent valuation survey

This paper explores Turkish urban households’ willingness to pay (WTP) for CO2 emission reductions expected to result from improvements in power production. A face-to-face questionnaire, with a Contingent valuation (CV) module prepared using the double-bounded dichotomous choice elicitation framework, was administered to 2422 respondents representative of urban Turkey—a developing country with low but rapidly increasing greenhouse gas emissions. The determinants of WTP were identified by considering not only the impact of standard socio-economic factors but also the effects of environmental knowledge, attitudes and behaviour, the relevance of the identity of the collection agent (national versus international institutions) in terms of trust people have towards them, and the degree of perceived participation of others in the realization of the project. Our study confirms the existing literature in demonstrating that WTP figures reported by young and educated people that are active on environmental issues, and who also possess material security and environmental knowledge, are more likely to be high. However, their willingness to make contributions is hampered significantly by their belief that their fellow citizens will not contribute and the general lack of trust in institutions. Overall, this study may be taken as a call to eliminate governance-related uncertainties in climate change deals.

Factors Explaining Green Purchase Intentions with Moderating Effect of Environmental Knowledge: Comparative Evidence from Islamic Perspective

Purpose- The principal focus of this research paper is to investigate and comprehend the factors explaining green purchase behaviors in Islamic countries viz Pakistan and Jordan and compare their green behaviors. The second facet of the research is to test the moderating effect of environmental knowledge on hypothesized model of the green purchase intentions in Islamic environments.Design/methodology/approach-The constructs employed for the research have been taken from previously developed and used in research studies. A pilot survey of 30 respondents was conducted to check the reliability of the constructs. The hypothesized model was developed on the basis of literature and tested through correlation analysis followed by regression to see the moderating role of environmental knowledge. Findings- The findings of the research reveal that the Green Purchase Intentions are influenced by Price and Quality of Products, Perceived Threat to Local and Global Environment, Past Environmentally Friendly Behaviors of the consumers. The moderating role of environmental knowledge was also confirmed, however the degree of moderation was stronger for P&Q and EK in both Pakistan and Jordan vis-a-vis other predictor variables.Research Limitations/implications- The current research has been conducted with limited sample size of 301 both from Pakistan and Jordan, the future research should be conducted with larger sample size to generalize the results. The future research endeavors should also focus on the specific green products to make the findings more reliable and valid. For sake of parsimony, the theoretical framework encompasses few predictor variables and palpably discounts some other predictors of criterion variable under study.Practical implications- Among the Antecedents of green purchase intentions under study, Price and Quality of products posit significant influence on eco-behaviours of consumers in both the Islamic countries. Therefore managers must take note of the Price and Quality dimension of the Green Products to imbibe the Green purchase behaviors. Originality/value- This is the pioneer paper that compares the green purchase behaviors of Islamic countries viz Pakistan and Jordan with the moderating effects of Environmental Knowledge.

The impacts of environmental knowledge and attitudes on vehicle ownership and use

Using responses to a knowledge–attitudes–behavior questionnaire administered in the Sacramento, California metropolitan region, the effects of environmental knowledge and environmental attitudes on the numbers and types of vehicles owned per household, annual vehicle miles traveled, and fuel consumption are assessed. The results indicate that households with pro-environmental attitudes own fewer and more fuel-efficient vehicles, drive them less, and consequently consume less fuel than do the households of respondents without pro-environmental attitudes. The households of respondents who know more about the environmental impacts of owning and using vehicles own more fuel-efficient vehicles, but environmental knowledge is not statistically significant in relation to numbers of vehicles owned, miles driven, or fuel consumption.

Gender differences in Egyptian consumers’ green purchase behaviour: the effects of environmental knowledge, concern and attitude

AbstractThis study investigates the influence of three cognitive and attitudinal factors on gender differences in green purchase behaviour. Using a large sample size (n = 1093), a survey has been developed and administered across Egypt. The findings from the multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) confirm the influence of consumers’ ecological knowledge, concern and attitude on gender differences in green purchase behaviour. Consistent with previous studies, this study found that women appeared to be less aware of environmental issues compared with men. However, contrary to other studies conducted in the West, men showed more environmental concern and more positive outlook towards green purchase compared with women. The study discusses how the present findings may help policy makers and marketers alike to fine‐tune their environmental and marketing programmes.