Green Citizenship Research Articles

Exploring the drivers of residents’ identification and green citizenship behavior in green cities: a multicountry study

PurposeThe fundamental mission of every green city is to harmonize urban living with environmental preservation. However, a critical challenge arises when the residents of such cities do not share the same level of environmental consciousness, potentially eroding the integrity of the green city’s brand identity. Hence, this study aims to explore the factors influencing residents’ identification with green city branding and assesses how this identification subsequently affects their green citizenship behaviors.Design/methodology/approachA survey of 1,217 residents from 15 green cities across six countries was conducted and analyzed using SPSS 28.0 for descriptive statistics and PLS-SEM for measurement and structural model analysis.FindingsThe results indicate that green city-self connection, green city distinctiveness and environmental benefits significantly impact GCRI, which, in turn, significantly influences green city protection, loyalty and advocacy behaviors. However, green city social and economic benefits did not affect resident identification.Practical implicationsThe results of this study provide valuable managerial insights for city brand managers, green city developers and governmental representatives. The study underscores the importance of considering residents as crucial internal stakeholders in the creation of a green city identity that effectively promotes sustainable urban living and an eco-friendly culture.Originality/valueThis study provides theoretical insights into the relationship between green identification and residents’ willingness and commitment to act as ambassadors and promote their city’s green values.

Active, dutiful and pragmatic: practicing green citizenship in urban China

ABSTRACT This study examines how eco-conscious citizens in urban China negotiate and practice citizenship in the everyday in response to the environmental and climate crises. Drawing on 45 in-depth interviews with participants in a ‘zero waste’ community and virtual observation, I explore how individuals articulate duties and rights, and act to claim their roles as green citizens. I argue that the changing socio-political conditions in China give rise to a particular type of green citizenship that is active, dutiful, pragmatic, and at the same time, gendered and classed. Motivated by a strong sense of duty toward nature and future generations, green citizens set realistic goals, commit to practicing sustainable consumption and building green families and communities. This form of citizenship, however, does not seek the expansion of rights and the enlargement of space for activism. This study offers fresh insights into research on citizenship, sustainable consumption and environmental activism in China.

Creative Economy Learning Management to Promote Sustainable Citizenship for Secondary School Students in the Upper Northern Special Economic Development Zones, Thailand

The objectives of this research were 1) to study creative economy learning approaches to promote sustainable citizenship for secondary school students in the Upper Northern Special Economic Development Zones, Thailand, and 2) to design guidelines for creative economy learning management to promote sustainable citizenship. for secondary school students in the Upper Northern Special Economic Development Zones, Thailand, and 3) to study the results of using creative economy learning management approaches to promote sustainable citizenship for secondary school students in the Upper Northern Special Economic Development Zones, Thailand. The research was action research. Samples in this research included 1) a group of 15 people who provided information on creative economy learning with the selection based on purposive sampling, 2) a group of 7 people who evaluate learning innovations with selection based on purposive sampling and 3) learning innovation trial group including 299 secondary school students with selection based on simple random sampling, coming up with a total of 321 students. The research tools included 1) a semi-unstructured interview form, 2) a form to evaluate the effectiveness of learning management approaches, and 3) a sustainable citizenship assessment form. The research results revealed that.
 
 1. The study on creative economy learning approaches to promote sustainable citizenship for secondary school students in the Upper Northern Special Economic Development Zones, Thailand revealed that creative economy learning management is an integration of creative economy concepts and a basis for learning for students to focus on skills, knowledge and understanding of the economic system with a production system of products and services that rely on the existing experiences and knowledge base. This can be done by making use of cultural resources, including economy, traditions, ways of life, and ways of living, combined with knowledge. creativity and technology level to lead to the appropriate upgrading of one's own economic system. The creative economy learning management to promote sustainable citizenship for secondary school students in the Upper Northern Special Economic Development Zones, Thailand will require promotion to bring about learning competency in 4 areas, consisting of 1) Competency regarding Community Engaged Learning 2) Economic Literacy Competency 3) Competency regarding Environmental Awareness and Green Citizenship and 4) Competency regarding Creative Economy Innovation Development.
 
 2. Designing creative economy learning guidelines to promote sustainable citizenship for secondary school students in the Upper Northern Special Economic Development Zones, Thailand, it was found that the researcher had designed a learning plan that integrated creative economy learning methods. It is designed as a lesson plan for the creative economy by using the area-based learning cycle teaching strategy (AAAR Teaching Approach) of Mangkhang (2023) together with creative community economics learning activities for 12 class periods, with evaluation results for the overall quality at the most appropriate level.
 
 3. The study on the results of using creative economics learning management approaches to promote sustainable citizenship for secondary school students in the Upper Northern Special Economic Development Zones, Thailand revealed that the level of students' sustainable citizenship in an overall picture was at the highest level.

Antecedents and consequences of green public administration

This article aims to test a model of the antecedents and consequences of green public administration. Hence, a quantitative research approach and a structured questionnaire were used to address the issue and the formulated hypotheses. The survey was conducted in Urmia, a multi-cultural and multi-ethnic city northwest of Iran. Using a multi-stage cluster sampling, a sample of 550 citizens was selected and questioned from the five districts of Urmia. The collected data were analyzed to test the hypotheses using structural equation modeling. Results indicated that green innovation, green environmental ethics, and green governance have a positive and significant effect on green public administration. In addition, a positive and meaningful impact was found between green public administration and green citizenship value, intention to participate in green city, and green social value. The study clearly revealed that green public administration as a new concept in the developments of the government has not yet been entered correctly into management and the lack of theorizing in this regard is noticeable in the world in general and in Iran in particular

‘Are you a green Guide’? Conservation, environmentalism, and citizenship in the British Girl Guides Association, 1986-1992

ABSTRACT This article explores the meaning and significance of environmental education within the British Girl Guides Association (GGA) in the period 1986–92. It considers how the youth organization reconceptualized meanings of citizenship in the wake of increased public and political concern surrounding the world environment. In doing so, it builds upon our understanding of the organization, by exploring changing understandings of citizenship within the movement in the context of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s Britain. It argues that a growing awareness of environmentalism in the latter half of the twentieth century saw a move towards an ideal of planetary citizenship, with members being encouraged to become agents of environmental change through their engagement with environmental issues and humanitarianism. This marked a shift in an organization that had long emphasized nationalistic ideas of duty and service, as organizational periodicals played a significant role in establishing in popular discourse an idea of green citizenship, which crossed geographical boundaries. Yet the organizational focus on world conservation also reinforced traditional models of citizenship, with an emphasis on civic duty and individual responsibility, which were reinforced in the social and political climate of the 1980s. Indeed, the construction of green citizenship within the organization was forged within, and reinforced, Thatcherite discourses of active citizenship and consumer duty, which had underpinned Thatcher’s ‘green turn’. Moreover, reflecting the emphasis on traditional gender roles in the 1980s, the green citizen was a gendered concept with girls encouraged to prepare for their roles as both young green consumers and future green homemakers. Therefore, green citizenship, as it was mobilized in the GGA, was a nebulous entity that was underpinned by a variety of contemporary socio-political discourses and played out on a variety of spatial registers, from the global to the individual.

Green European citizenship? Rights, duties, virtues, practices and the European Green Deal

ABSTRACT Published in December 2019 by the European Commission, the European Green Deal (EGD) sets out the aim to transform the EU into a sustainable society in which economic growth is decoupled from resource use, so that there are no greenhouse gas net emissions by 2050. As the ‘driving force of the transition’ citizens are expected a play a key role in achieving this shift, by adopting sustainable consumption habits and changing their life styles and behaviour as well as actively participating in policymaking [EC, 2019, 22]. This expectation raises questions about European citizenship: Can European citizenship be ‘greened’? Conversely, might the EGD strengthen European citizenship? Drawing together theoretical insights into ‘green citizenship’ with research on European citizenship this paper considers what a ‘green European citizenship’ (GEC) might look like. It examines the rights, duties, virtues and practices of a GEC, and underlines in particular the important role of ‘critical acts’ of European citizens. It concludes that while the initiatives of the EGD might provoke citizenship engagement, participation and identification, these initiatives might also further expose the fault lines between citizens in Europe. This possibility makes the critical acts undertaken by citizens all the more important.

특급호텔 친환경 인적자원관리와 종사원의 인식, 조직풍토 및 조직시민행동과의 관계에 대한 연구: AMO의 모델을 적용하여

The purpose of study is to investigate the relationship between green HRM of a hotel, green awareness, green organizational climate, and green citizenship behavior. This survey was conducted from May 15 to May 30, 2022 for 15 days, sample target working in green hotels that actively carry out eco-friendly packages were selected. The hotels selected nine hotels that actively carry out eco-friendly packages among global chain hotels certified by LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) that employees can recognize as eco-friendly hotels. Specifically, the hotel

What makes a restaurant customer become a green citizen?

This study explored the relationships between green brand uniqueness, green brand credibility, green brand innovativeness, green brand love, and green customer citizenship behavior in Taiwan's restaurant context. We conducted a survey of 406 customers of the restaurant Wang Steak. Our results indicate that green brand uniqueness, green brand credibility, and green brand innovativeness all had positive relationships with green brand love. Green brand love was also positively related to green customer citizenship behavior. Our findings provide insight into the relationships between perceived brand uniqueness, brand credibility, brand innovativeness, and brand love with customers' citizenship behaviors in the green restaurant context. Restaurant managers should promote the unique attributes of green activities, fulfill their green promises to customers, and develop brand innovativeness related to green issues, thereby strengthening customers' green brand love and green citizenship behavior.

Green Human Resource Management Practices and Organizational Citizenship Behaviour towards the Environment in the Banking Sector in Bangladesh

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of green human resource management practices on organizational citizenship behaviour towards the environment based on the Ability-Motivation-Opportunity (AMO) theory. To support statistical analyses, relevant data were gathered from 132 employees working in the commercial banking sector of Bangladesh. To assess the research model, the PLS-SEM approach was applied using SmartPLS 3.0. The study found a significant positive impact of green training and development, green performance appraisal, and green employee empowerment on organizational citizenship behaviour towards the environment. Besides, deviated from previous studies, we found green recruitment and selection, and green rewards were not significant predictors to employee green behaviour. The results of the study suggest that organizations should provide more attention to green employee empowerment, and green training and development to develop responsible eco-friendly behaviour among the participants. Moreover, the study suggests some new research perspectives considering organizational and individual variables to get more insights on the issue and to overcome the limitations of this research.

Exploring the role of green attributes transparency influencing green customer citizenship behavior

PurposeFew studies have explored how to foster green customer citizenship behavior. Therefore, the aim of this study was to understand the factors influencing green customer citizenship behavior in a restaurant context.Design/methodology/approachThis study proposes a conceptual model, based on previous studies, hypothesizing that green attributes transparency engenders green brand image and green trust, which together facilitate green customer citizenship behavior. The authors used structural equations modeling with data collected from 312 consumers in Taiwan to do the analysis.FindingsThe findings indicate that green attributes transparency plays a strong role in determining green brand image and green trust, which enhance green customer citizenship behavior. Managerial implications to aid businesses in developing strategies to enhance their ability to foster green citizenship behavior among its consumers for competitive advantage is also provided, together with an outline of the limitations of the study.Originality/valueThis study used the concept of stimulus–organism–response to test the stimuli of green attributes transparency to enhance customer citizenship behavior mediated by green brand image and green trust. This study makes two theoretical contributions. First, this study extended the concept of attributes transparency, brand image, trust and customer citizenship behavior to a green context. The authors developed a research framework and confirmed that green attributes transparency facilitate green brand image and green trust, which contribute to green customer citizenship behavior. Second, there is no prior study exploring the relationship between green attributes transparency, green brand image, green trust and green customer citizenship behavior. The empirical support for the model developed in this study is based on empirical data of Taiwan restaurant consumers.

Digital Technology and Social Innovation Promoting a Green Citizenship: Development of the “Go Sustainable Living” Digital Application

This study aims at embedding sustainability in the consumption behavior and daily decisions of individuals with the support of a digital technology application integrated with social innovation marketed models. It takes advantage of the widespread use of smartphones that creates new opportunities in the field of citizen science and new possibilities for data collection to boost consumers’ consciousness toward creating active civilians and “green citizenship.” The study’s output is a digital application on the mobile phone, called “Go Sustainable Living,” where consumers can upload their daily sustainable and green actions to collect credits to be further exchanged with purchasing discounts in local stores and cultural organizations participating in the projects. By rewarding green users, the projects partnering organizations benefit from building their green character. This study is based on the questionnaire findings: “From Theory to Praxis: ‘Go Sustainable Living’ survey for exploring individuals consciousness level of decision-making and action-taking in daily life toward a Green Citizenship,” an analysis published in 2021 by the authors [1].Graphical abstract

From Theory to Praxis: 'Go Sustainable Living' Survey for Exploring Individuals Consciousness Level of Decision-Making and Action-Taking in Daily Life Towards a Green Citizenship.

This study aims at embedding sustainability practices by exploring sustainable actions of individuals consisting the educated workforce of Greece. A tailored questionnaire was created and sent via e-mails to 500 respondents, to identify a snapshot of participants daily buying and consuming actions. 483 responses received and analyzed using statistical tools. They respond to recommendations for enhancing sustainability consciousness at individual level, inspiring people to buy sustainable, creating new consumption attitudes that are key factors for moving towards a sustainable citizenship. The findings will further provide information for a second paper on developing the ‘Go Sustainable Living’ digital application to be uploaded in individuals’ mobile phones, for rewarding users with points that correspond to each sustainable action and can later be used for discounts in all participating stores. The analysis showed that <30% of consumers are considered sustainability-conscious, 57.6% are in a transition phase, while 13% fell into the category of non-conscious. To make sustainable decisions and actions in every daily life, individuals need to have knowledge of sustainability, awareness, consciousness of their actions, and be active citizens. An educated workforce armed with sustainability perceptions and competencies is an asset for societies and businesses poised to respond to the sustainability call. Sustainability should not be only an ‘utopia’ in our societies but an ‘eutopia’ entailing a life with ecological and social health and prosperity at a local, regional, and global level.Supplementary InformationThe online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s43615-021-00046-9.

What makes a green citizen in Taiwan's restaurant industry?

Generating employees' altruistic behaviors toward green activities is important. We sought to understand what factors influence green organizational citizenship behavior of employees in the restaurant industry in Taiwan by examining the relationships among green human resource management practices, employee commitment toward the environment, and green organizational citizenship behaviors. We used convenience sampling to collect data from 512 frontline staff of restaurant chains in Taiwan. Structural equation modeling was conducted to test our hypotheses, and the results show that five green human resource management practices were positively related to employee commitment toward the environment, which, in turn, positively affected green organizational citizenship behavior. Managers of restaurants can adopt this understanding of the relationships of green human resource management practices with employees' commitment toward the environment and green citizenship behavior.

Correction to: Incentives to Promote Green Citizenship in UK Transition Towns

Correction to: Incentives to Promote Green Citizenship in UK Transition Towns

Factors influencing green organizational citizenship behavior

We examined the relationships between green human resource management practices, organizational identification, and green citizenship behaviors in the hotel industry. Our framework comprised 5 dimensions of green human resource management practices: green recruitment, green training, green performance management, green reward, and green involvement. We predicted that each dimension would positively influence frontline employees' organizational identification, and, in turn, their green organizational citizenship behaviors of eco-initiatives, eco-civic engagement, and eco-helping. Participants were 426 frontline employees working in Taiwanese hotels. Consistent with our predictions, each of the 5 green human resource management practices had a positive influence on organizational identification, which then positively affected green organizational citizenship behavior. Moreover, green human resource management practices enhanced employees' green organizational citizenship behavior, and organizational identification was an effective mediator of the relationship between green human resource management practices and green organizational citizenship behavior. Practical and theoretical implications of the findings are discussed.

Recent Immigrants and Public Charge: Access to Coverage and New Legal Arrivals’ Employment, Self-Employment, and Health Insurance After Medicaid Expansions and the Marketplace

This article uses data from the American Community Survey from 2009 to 2016 to identify the effect of Medicaid expansions and the creation of the ACA Insurance Market Exchange (Marketplace) on low-income recent immigrants’ employment, self-employment, and health coverage. There is increasing interest in the connection between public coverage and employment outcomes among low-income documented immigrants after the current administration proposed to include the use of Medicaid as a potential reason for denying green card and citizenship applications based on the public charge criteria. The article finds little evidence on reduction of employment among those who are eligible in nongenerous states. We find evidence of an increase in the likelihood of being self-employed in generous states that expanded Medicaid before the implementation of the Marketplace. The findings suggests that low-income immigrants are likely to be employed regardless of their years in the country and that access to public coverage only affects the likelihood of having public versus private coverage.

Nourish what you own: psychological ownership, materialism and pro-environmental behavioral intentions

PurposeResearchers have become increasingly interested in the construct of psychological ownership in recent years. The purpose of this paper is to extend the target of psychological ownership to planet Earth as a whole and investigate its relationship with materialism and pro-environmental behavioral intentions.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is based on a survey with 236 college students from a public university in the Southeast of the USA. The model fit from a confirmatory factor analysis is very satisfactory. Mediation of psychological ownership for the planet is formally tested using structural equation modeling (SEM) and Hayes’ (2013) macro for SPSS.FindingsThe findings of this paper support the expectation that both the individual (my planet) and the collective-oriented dimensions (our planet) of individual-level psychological ownership are positively related to recycling intentions and the intention to purchase green products. Further, formal mediation tests show that psychological ownership for my planet, but not for our planet, mediates the relationship between material values and pro-environmental behaviors.Practical implicationsCompanies that aim to gain competitive advantage through green citizenship can highlight the individual or shared ownership of the planet to align the political agenda of government officials with their company mission, vision and brand positioning.Originality/valueThe current paper contributes to the emerging body of literature on psychological ownership by extending its target to planet Earth as a whole. It is the first paper to explain the previously observed negative relationship between materialism and pro-environmental behaviors through the mechanism of psychological ownership.

Development and validation of the green customer citizenship behaviour measurement

This study developed and validated the green customer citizenship behaviour (GCCB) measurement to measure consumers' ecological concerns and their willingness to adopt and support green customer behaviour. The measurement was designed and developed through a four-stage process. An exploratory factor analysis was conducted on the pilot data to extract a factor structure of the construct, and a confirmatory factor analysis was then used to confirm and validate the measurement. The data revealed that the measurement is comprised of two dimensions: activist behaviour and non-activist behaviour, with each dimension comprised of two components. The components of activist behaviour are green advocacy and green altruism, whereas the components of non-activist behaviour are green affiliation and green advisory. The GCCB measurement exhibits internal consistency reliability, construct validity, and nomological validity. Moreover, the measurement explains how customers nurture their behaviour which is essentially voluntary and pro-social towards the welfare of the environment.

Beyond Green Consumerism: Uncovering the Motivations of Green Citizenship

Beyond Green Consumerism: Uncovering the Motivations of Green Citizenship

Guardians of the environment in Canada’s Chemical Valley

Citizens of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation fight for justice with their bodies at the frontlines of daily toxic exposure. This paper examines struggles for environmental and reproductive justice in the polluted heart of Canada’s ‘Chemical Valley’. These are as struggles over life, land and knowledge. Based upon community-engaged qualitative research, from a participatory action research approach, including field immersion, participant observation and 35 in-depth interviews with First Nations residents, I document the Aamjiwnaang First Nation’s citizens’ activities and practices on the ground as they cope with the impact of their contaminated surroundings on their health and habitat. This community-engaged scholarship lens brings into view the lived experiences and ongoing practices of resistance by the Anishinabek citizens who are surrounded by Chemical Valley. I situate these struggles within the green citizenship literature to assess three blind spots of green governmentality: greening citizenship, lifestyle blame and Western dualisms. I discuss the multiple edges of ecological citizenship and argue that citizens are simultaneously bound up within disciplinary power relations and place-based belonging. This place, although polluted, is crucial to practices of relational Anishinabek citizenship and the identity of indigenous citizens who call this place both ‘prison and home’.