Environmental Friendly Behavior Research Articles

Iron-catalyzed synthesis of N-heterocycles via intermolecular and intramolecular cyclization reactions: A review

Small N -heterocyclic molecules are important scaffolds in the pharmaceutical industry and most FDA-approved drugs are nitrogen-containing heterocycles. Chemists try to employ iron-based catalysts for organic transformations due to their abundance, economic, easily accessible and environment-friendly behaviour. N -heterocycles are synthesized by the cyclization reactions. This review covered the synthesis of N -heterocycles by employing iron-based catalysts via intermolecular or intramolecular cyclizations.

Environment-Friendly Behavior of New Agricultural Business Main Body Based on the Internet of Things.

The Internet of Things economy is necessary for the reform of China's economic industrial structure and international development, and it brings new opportunities and new challenges to the Chinese economy. The comprehensive informatization of the society is the prerequisite for the economic development of the Internet of Things. The Chinese government will adopt a strategy of simultaneous development to continue to accelerate the development of traditional agriculture while developing emerging strategic agriculture of the Internet of Things, accelerating the transformation of economic production methods. Family farming is a new type of agricultural business in the microeconomy. It is not only a producer and mobilizer of agricultural products but also an important carrier for implementing agricultural innovation technologies and promoting agricultural modernization. This article uses game theory, resource endowment theory, expectation theory, etc. to describe the impact mechanism of economies of scale, profit maximization, and environmental behavior on family farms from a game perspective and discusses the specific effects of resource endowments and psychological expectations. Through the research of the Internet of Things and the rural green energy cycle, this article applies it to the new agricultural business entities, thereby promoting the development of proenvironmental behavior analysis.

A study on Environment-friendly Lifestyle and other major factors influencing household recycling in India

Waste Management in India has always been a severe problem, and tackling this issue would require a social mindset towards adopting green practices. This study aims to understand the consumer mindset and awareness of recycling in India and explore factors that could influence India’s recycling behavior. The data for this study has been obtained through a primary research – survey questionnaire. Correlation analysis and regression have been applied to understand the result of the questionnaire data. Promoting recycling amongst people takes into consideration many factors. The results suggest that recycling behavior is mostly influenced by factors, such as willingness to adopt environment-friendly behavior, awareness towards recycling, and providing incentives. This study aimed to explore recycling in India and study the major factors that can influence people to adopt recycling. It also explored a possible relationship between providing incentives and influencing recycling behavior. These findings will help to analyze and develop strategies to boost the recycling rate in India.

Lifestyle education, health education, environmental education, movement

Unfortunately, one of the most popular topics today is the diseases of civilization, for which our changed lifestyle is responsible. It is very important that we educate and teach our children to protect nature, pay attention to their environment, move a lot. The role of the family is very important in passing on these values, so it is important and parents have to pay attention to give a good example for their children. In our research, we examined the ecological behavior, environmental values, environmental friendly behaviour and movement habits of students using a questionnaire method. The respondents were seventh and eighth grade students from schools in municipalities of different sizes. (N=558). We used different scales in our questions, such as NEP, PRE, APR, PEB1, HB. To present our results, we used basic statistics and calculated the results of the above-mentioned scales for the type of settlement with the help of SPSS program, analysis of variance (ANOVA). Our results showed that almost half of children believe that they should not respect the laws of nature, however, 71.9% mostly or completely like to go hiking in nature. Protecting ecological behaviour and environmental values is on the right way for students, but we need to draw their attention to becoming more energy efficient. Unfortunately, our results show, as has been supported by several literature, we live a sedentary, inactive life. 62.7% of students attend training that requires physical activity only once or 1-2 times a week. However, 56.7% of them spend at least 2-4 or more hours in front of the computer and / or use their mobilephone every day. Moreover, 33.3% spend 2-4 or more hours in front of the television every day. As at the HB movement scale, we found a difference in student movement as a function of residential settlements F555,2=4.458; p=0.012. If we want our children to live a healthy, quality life, we need to bring up and teach them for that as well.

How regulatory focus shapes pro-environmental behaviour: evidence from Portugal

ABSTRACT This study predicts an indirect relationship between regulatory focus and pro-environmental behaviour. In doing so we advance the incipient and conflicting literature on the relationship between regulatory focus and pro-environmental behaviour, predicting both positive and negative channels for the dissemination of regulatory focus effects on environmentally-friendly behaviour. The results, based on data collected from 925 individuals, show that the effects of both regulatory orientations on pro-environmental behaviour are completely mediated by the predicted mechanisms. Both promotion and prevention show an indirect positive relationship with environmentally-friendly behaviour, but this depends on the specific type of environmental behaviour. Moreover, the results suggest that both promotion and prevention affect pro-environmental behaviour through positive and negative channels.

Go green! Measuring the factors that influence sustainable performance

This study examines the GHRM practices and the transformational leadership specific to environmental sustainability of Pakistan's dairy industry. It also investigates the mediating role of pro-environmental behaviour in the relationship of GHRM practices, The environmental-specific transformational leadership, and sustainable behavior. Additionally, the study examines the moderating role of the pro-environmental attitude between GHRM practices and The environmental-specific transformational leadership. The target population consists of employees working in dairy organizations of Pakistan. A simple random sampling technique was used for data collection. A survey questionnaire method was used to collect data; after data screening a total of 430 responses were subjected to SEM for analysis. The findings indicated that the GHRM practices play a significant role in improving employee environmental and sustainable behavior. The environmental-specific transformational leadership positively affects the pro-environmental behaviour of employees, but its impact on sustainable performance is insignificant. In addition, GHRM practices and environmental-specific transformational leadership have been shown to indirectly contribute to sustainable performance through environmental behavior. The pro-environmental attitude moderates the effect of GHRM practices and environmental-specific transformational leadership on pro-environmental behavior, and pro-environmental behavior leads to sustainable performance. This study is one of the rare attempts to examine the integrated impact of GHRM practices and environmental-specific transformational leadership on pro-environmental behavior and sustainable performance in the domain of environmental management. It explicitly offers insights into the literature by developing a mechanism to improve sustainable performance through GHRM practices and environmental-specific transformational leadership in the dairy industry. The findings of this study have postulated that a package of GHRM practices and environmental-specific transformational leadership is needed to build pro-environmental behavior and foster sustainable performance. It can help managers in their effort to build environmental friendly behavior under the lens of a pro-environmental attitude that facilitates sustainable performance. Aligned to cope with the increasing environmental concerns of the dairy industry, this study proposes that managers would support specific transformational environmental leadership along with green discipline by raising pro-environmental behaviour under the lens of a pro-environmental attitude for the implication of environmental policies to achieve sustainable performance of dairy firms.

Instrumen Literasi Ekologi untuk Mengukur Kesiapan Berperilaku Ramah Lingkungan Siswa Sekolah Menengah Atas

This study aims to explain the characteristics and determine the validity and reliability of ecological literacy instruments to measure high school student's readiness for environmentally friendly behavior. The method used is development research. The trial sample consisted of eight high schools with adiwiyata status in Karasidenan Surakarta. The sampling technique used proportionate random sampling with a total sample of 440 students. Collecting data using open-ended interview techniques through focus group discussions and questionnaire trials. The results showed that the reliability and validity of the ecological literacy instrument were declared reliable and valid with Cronbach's alpha value of 0.714 in the knowledge aspect and 0.811 in the concern aspect. In conclusion, the ecological literacy instrument developed has the characteristics of an ecological concept that is universal and can be used to measure readiness for environmentally friendly behavior from the aspect of knowledge and concern for the environment.
 Keywords: Ecological Literacy Instruments, Readiness for Environmentally Friendly Behavior

Investigating the Effect of Green Human Resources Management on the Staff's Environmentally Friendly Behavior: A Case Study of Bijar's Hotels & Restaurants

در دو دهة گذشته، توجه به پایداری زیست‌محیطی، اجتماعی و اقتصادی در فعالیت‌ها و تحقیقات رشته‌های مدیریت افزایش ‌یافته‌است. مدیریت منابع انسانی سبز به‌ عنوان شاخه‌ای از مدیریت منابع انسانی پایدار، موضوعی نوین در رشتة مدیریت منابع انسانی است که بر هدف پایداری زیست‌محیطی تأکید دارد. جهان در‌حال ورود و تجربه اقتصاد‌ سبز است. از این¬رو پژوهش حاضر به دنبال بررسی میزان آگاهی کارکنان هتل‌‌ها از مدیریت سبز و مزایای استفاده از آن می¬باشد. جامعه آماری پژوهش، کارکنان هتل‌ها و رستوران‌های شهر بیجار واقع در استان کردستان به تعداد 60 نفر است که با استفاده از جدول مورگان 52 نفر برای نمونه آماری به صورت تصادفی انتخاب‌شدند. در این تحقیق برای سنجش متغیرها از پرسشنامه استفاده ‌شده ‌است. براي تحليل داده¬هاي به دست‌آمده از نمونه‌ها، هم از روش‌هاي آمار توصيفي و هم از روش‌هاي آمار استنباطي استفاده ‌شده ‌است. برای سنجش روایی و پایایی پرسشنامه از ضرایب بارهای عاملی استفاده ‌شد. با توجه به نتایج به دست‌آمده از بین 52 نفر جامعه آماری مورد ‌بررسی چنین به نظر ‌می‌آید که مدیریت منابع انسانی سبز بر تعهد سازمانی کارکنان، رفتار سازگار کارکنان با محیط زیست و عملکرد زیست‌محیطی هتل تأثیر معناداری دارد. همچنین تعهد سازمانی کارکنان بر رفتار سازگار کارکنان با محیط زیست و نیز رفتار سازگار کارکنان با محیط زیست بر عملکرد زیست‌محیطی هتل تأثیر معناداری دارد.

Value-added products from waste plastics using dissolution technique

Non-biodegradable plastics polymers, such as low-density polyethylene (LDPE), polystyrene (PS), and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) are non-biodegradable and release toxic gases into the environment on combustion and after long use. This study includes the screening of a series of organic solvents for solubility parameters of LDPE and PS. The karanja biodiesel is also used as one of the solvents for the dissolution of plastics. In order to decide the best solvent to be used for the dissolution of plastic polymer, rate of dissolution, safety aspect, and cost of the solvent were considered. The solubility factor of LDPE and PS is found to be much closed to acetone, chlorobenzene, and karanja biodiesel. Out of them, karanja biodiesel is considered due to its environment friendly behavior. The output of the study is with three value-added products as high heating value fuel, good composite for low-density cement, and an oil-adsorbent. The dissolution products obtained are chemically analyzed using FTIR and GC–MS techniques to elucidate their composition. The BET and TGA techniques are used for physical analysis, viz., the porosity and thermal stability of the products respectively. The findings of dissolution methods in this article are compared with the conventional pyrolysis techniques for these plastics treatment.

Hotel Guests' Psychological Distance of Climate Change and Environment-Friendly Behavior Intention.

Climate change is certainly a global problem that negatively affects all nations, and thus all humans, on the globe. Nevertheless, little is known about people’s perceptions of climate change and its effects on people’s attitudinal and behavioral responses to climate change. The present study successfully addressed how hotel guests’ environment-friendly behavior intention is formed through their self-perception as a member of the global community and their psychological distance of climate change. An online survey was used to collect quantitative data from hotel guests to verify the hypotheses. Our test results supported all the hypotheses in our conceptual model. Consequently, the findings of this study satisfactorily explained how hotel guests form their intention to engage in environment-friendly behaviors while they are staying at hotels.

Към нови измерения на екологичното образование в СУ „П. Кр. Яворов“ – първото екоучилище във Варна и региона

Today we all live in an extremely dynamic world which provokes a variety of challenges related not only to health but also to education and social isolation. It appears that many young people are motivated and ambitious to shape their own future gaining experience and confidence during the school years. Many of their ideas have a creative and rational potential which triggers socially useful initiatives and projects on regional, national or international level. Participation in eco projects, volunteering and supporting social causes combines studying and practical activities and, thus, raises the quality of education and breaks its traditional character. And when innovation is also included, the result is predetermined and winning. Using an integrated system for ecological management, “Peyo Yavorov” Secondary School has encouraged students, teachers and parents to participate in eco initiatives for more than 20 years. This enriches their knowledge and improves the environment. Focusing on the ecological education ensures better understanding of the environmental problems with their local and global impact. Different approaches are used for developing key competences which creates later an active, healthy and environmental-friendly behavior. Activities in the eco field have proved to be effective as means of raising sensitivity and responsibility aiming at the change of one’s attitude – towards themselves, the others and the environment.

Investigating the Effect of Customer Experience, Perceived Value, and Customer Satisfaction on Environment-Friendly Behavior

In line with the model proposed within the scope of the research, this study seeks to achieve the following goals: 1) to examine the effect of experience on perceived value, 2) to determine the effect of the sub-dimensions of perceived value on customer satisfaction, and 3) to determine the effect of customer satisfaction on environment friendly behavior. The study was conducted on individuals who participated in the camping activities in the Black Sea region of Turkey. The results show that feel, relate, and act experiences have positive effects on functional value, while sense, feel, and act experiences have positive effects on social value. Additionally, sense, feel, relate, and act experiences show positive effects on emotional value, while sense, feel, and act experiences have positive effects on epistemic and conditional values. On the other hand, the think experience, located in the experience dimensions, does not affect any sub-dimension of perceived value. In conclusion, the sub-dimensions of the perceived value affect customer satisfaction, and customer satisfaction positively affects environmentally friendly behavior.

Factors Affecting the Consumption of Eco-Fashion Products of Vietnamese Consumers

Consumers' awareness of behaviors affecting the environment is increasing, and many people choose to use eco fashion products. Based on the theoretical framework of fashion acceptance, developed by Sproles (1979) combined with empirical research, the author has built a theoretical framework with four shopping-oriented factors; fashion-oriented elements, environmental concerns, and environment-friendly behaviors. From the results of a survey of 450 Vietnamese consumers, all four factors positively influence the consumption behavior of eco-fashion products of Vietnamese consumers. The factor that has the strongest impact on consumer behavior of eco-fashion products is the fashion-oriented factor.

The exploration of residents' perception of eco-urbanization at community and driving factors in China

Community is the disaggregated unit to reflect the transformation of eco-urbanization in China. Eco-urbanization at communities is the ecological landscape and environment-friendly practices, and is directly reflected in residents' satisfaction on the transformation of these ecological elements. In this study, we assess resident's perception of eco-urbanization at community and explore the influencing factors by a field survey in 64 community block groups with 668 questionnaires. Methodologically, we have made the assessment using residents' satisfaction on green space, sanitation, landscape, noise pollution treatment, and optic pollution control. Then regression analysis has been made with the influencing factors from the dimensions of individual characteristics, management, and facilities. In general, residents' satisfaction on sanitation is at the highest level and noise pollution treatment is at the lowest level. The property management and the safety sense greatly influence the residents' perceptions, whereas facilities appear to have less influence. The environmental environment friendly behavior also affects residents' satisfaction on eco-community. The results have also revealed resident's perception of eco-urbanization at community shows great difference in different regions and in different community types. Accordingly, it is necessary to strengthen the comprehensive governance on eco-community, enhance the all-around management and promote human-oriented community in the future.

Will Costliness Amplify the Signalling Strength of Past Pro-Environmental Behaviour? Exploratory Study on Autonomy.

Research has shown that the extent to which previous environmental actions are linked to people’s environmental self-identity influences subsequent environmentally-friendly behaviour. The study empirically examined the influences of recycling efforts on subsequent pro-environmental behaviour by PLS (partial least squares) structural equation modelling based on the survey data of 426 respondents in China. The results indicate that recycling efforts have a positive effect on pro-environmental behaviour through the mechanism of feelings of pride and environmental self-identity. We hypothesise that past pro-environmental behaviour is more likely to promote an individual’s environmental self-identity when the behaviour is incurred with a higher costliness. However, the results show that only when individuals autonomously perform costly recycling behaviour, the signalling strength of previous recycling efforts is higher to promote environmental self-identity. On the contrary, the high costliness weakens the signalling strength of previous recycling efforts through producing negative emotions. Our results show that when reminding people of their past pro-environmental behaviour in order to promote future pro-environmental behaviour, it is useful to emphasize the autonomously taken costliness of behaviour as it can strongly signal that one is a pro-environmental person, thus as to strengthen environmental self-identity.

How Can Hotel Employees Produce Workplace Environmentally Friendly Behavior? The Role of Leader, Corporate and Coworkers.

Although previous studies have acknowledged that leaders’ such environmental behaviors and environmental issues are becoming critical for long-term development, little research has focused on why, how and when perceived environmentally specific servant leadership contributes to employees’ workplace environmentally friendly behavior in the hotel industry. This paper aims to fill this research gap by using social identity theory to test employees’ green role identity as a mediator and their perceived corporate environmental responsibility and perceived coworkers’ work group green advocacy as moderators in the relationship between perceived environmentally-specific servant leadership and workplace environmentally friendly behavior. Using a sample of 527 leader-follower dyads from six hotels in mainland China at two points in time, we found that employees’ green role identity mediates the positive relationship between perceived environmentally specific servant leadership and employees’ workplace environmentally friendly behavior. Moreover, employees’ perceived corporate environmental responsibility and perceived coworkers’ work group green advocacy were found to positively moderate the relationship between perceived environmentally-specific servant leadership and green role identity and between green role identity and workplace environmentally friendly behavior, respectively. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

Hyper-altruistic behavior vanishes with high stakes.

Using an incentivized experiment with statistical power, this paper explores the role of stakes in charitable giving of lottery prizes, where subjects commit to donate a fraction of the prize before they learn the outcome of the lottery. We study three stake levels: 5€ (n = 177), 100€ (n = 168), and 1,000€ (n = 171). Although the donations increase in absolute terms as the stakes increase, subjects decrease the donated fraction of the pie. However, people still share roughly 20% of 1,000€, an amount as high as the average monthly salary of people at the age of our subjects. The number of people sharing 50% of the pie is remarkably stable across stakes, but donating the the whole pie–the modal behavior in charity-donation experiments–disappears with stakes. Such hyper-altruistic behavior thus seems to be an artifact of the stakes typically employed in economic and psychological experiments. Our findings point out that sharing with others is a prevalent human feature, but stakes are an important determinant of sharing. Policies promoted via prosocial frames (e.g., stressing the effects of mask-wearing or social distancing on others during the Covid-19 pandemic or environmentally-friendly behaviors on future generations) may thus be miscalibrated if they disregard the stakes at play.

Taiwanese Buddhism and Environmentalism

Abstract Buddhism is often said to be an environment-friendly religion, but this thesis is rarely investigated. In this paper, we employ a mixed-method approach to examine this thesis in the case of Taiwan. We use data from the Taiwan Social Change Survey (tscs) and apply qualitative content analysis to examine practices among major Taiwanese Buddhist organizations. The findings suggest: (1) Buddhists in Taiwan engage significantly more in environment-friendly behavior than other religious members, and (2) members of different Buddhist organizations display similar levels of engagement in environment-related behavior. However, (3) Buddhist organizations engage very differently in environment-related activities. (4) Buddhist organizations engage more in nonpolitical environmental activities than they do in politically sensitive ones, and (5) among the four major Buddhist organizations, female-led Buddhist organizations show a higher level of environment-related practices than male-led organizations.

Effect of consumer environmental propensity and innovative propensity on intention to purchase electric vehicles: Applying an extended theory of planned behavior

Electric vehicles (EVs) attract increasing attention among consumers worldwide due to their innovative and environmentally-friendly properties. Buying an EV is not only an environmentally-friendly behavior but also an innovation-acceptance behavior. Accordingly, consumer propensities associated with environmental-innovative products—environmental propensity and innovative propensity—are expected to influence consumers’ attitudes and intention for EV purchase. Relying on an extended theory of planned behavior, this study reveals that both environmental propensity and innovative propensity of consumers have significant indirect impacts on their intention to purchase EVs through the mediation of attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavior control. Based on these findings, important marketing implications for promoting the EV market are suggested.

Measuring the political cost of environmental problems (PCEP): a scale development and validation

With the improvement of people’s living standards and the awakening of environmental rights awareness, pollution and mass environmental incidents have become the focus of public attention. Using grounded theory analysis in qualitative research and multivariate statistical technology in quantitative research, taking residents and public officials of Shijiazhuang, Tangshan and Heng Shui as the research objects, Study 1 has defined the concept of the political cost of environmental problems (PCEP) and has constructed the PCEP scale by using the methods of interview and questionnaire survey, which provided sufficient theoretical explanation and empirical support for the research on the political cost of environmental problems. Study 2 has explored the relationship between PCEP and the environment-friendly behaviors, verified the applicability of the scale, and found the institutional PCEP, the organizational PCEP, the social PCEP, and the mass basic PCEP all have a positive impact on environment-friendly behaviors.