Green Home Research Articles

Perspectives by green financial instruments – a case study in the Hungarian banking sector during COVID-19

Recently, the management of the green financial sector has been widely influenced by global socio-economic concerns such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the energy crisis. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate, besides their environmental attitude, what opinions and experiences the affected stakeholders have about the sustainability-related processes in the Hungarian banking sector in the early 2020s. To assess this subject extensively, two questionnaire surveys were conducted in two consecutive years (2020/2021 and 2021/2022), involving 600 and 1,600 participants randomly chosen from banking databases, respectively. The results indicate that both residential and corporate participants have various but broadening knowledge of green financial instruments. Hungarian residential customers have pointed out the inconveniences of the most popular green loan product (Green Home Program), while there appears a distinct difference in green investment preferences between the two groups of respondents. Hungarian stakeholders are quite eco-conscious, and so are banks adopting sustainability and climate risk assessment actions, however, the implementations have much potential to exploit. Respondents also identify the energy crisis-related risks, while their trust in the banking system remains high even under volatile circumstances. These findings demonstrate that the Hungarian green banking sector has a high degree of crisis resistance with residential and corporate stakeholders behind giving trust and thereby the driving force toward the successful green transition.

Home Comfort Dataset: Acquired from SGH

In this work, we share the dataset collected during the Smart Green Homes (SGH) project. The project’s goal was to develop integrated products and technology solutions for households, as well as to improve the standards of comfort and user satisfaction. This was to be achieved while improving household energy efficiency and reducing the usage of gaseous pollutants, in response to the planet’s sustainability issues. One of the tasks executed within the project was the collection of data from volunteers’ homes, including environmental information and the level of comfort as perceived by the volunteers themselves. While used in the original project, the resulting dataset contains valuable information that could not be explored at the time. We now share this dataset with the community, which can be used for various scenarios. These may include heating appliance optimisation, presence detection and environmental prediction.

Does congruency matter for online green demarketing campaigns? Examining the effects of retargeting display ads embedded in different browsing contexts

PurposeGreen demarketing, which promotes anti-consumption as a more extreme sustainability tactic, could help consumers and societies move toward healthier consumption patterns while building strong, long-lasting relationships with consumers. As even the most committed brands find the need to oscillate between demarketing and conventional marketing for survival, this research tests how the congruency of the campaign shown on a brand's home page (owned media) and a following retargeting ad (paid media) could impact perceived congruency and further downstream effects. In doing so, this research proposes that the media context (i.e. news or shopping browsing context) in which the retargeting ad is embedded could determine how much congruency of the demarketing campaign across owned and paid media matters.Design/methodology/approachAn experiment with a 2 (home page content: green vs. demarketing) × 2 (retargeting ad content: product vs. demarketing) × 2 (browsing context: shopping vs. news) between-subjects factorial design was employed with an online panel of 430 participants. The participants first saw the brand's home page content, then were assigned to a website browsing context where the retargeting ad of the brand was embedded.FindingsIn a news browsing context, users perceived higher congruency when product retargeting ads (vs. demarketing) were shown after a green home page exposure and when demarketing retargeting ads (vs. products) were delivered after a demarketing home page. The elevated perceived congruency successfully led to higher ad argument and ad attitude. These differences were not present in a shopping browsing context. These results showed that the congruency between the home page and the retargeting ad for demarketing campaigns mattered more in certain media contexts (i.e. news browsing context).Originality/valueThe study closes the empirical gap in demarketing brand activism campaigns by demonstrating when and how congruency between multiple owned and paid channels for demarketing campaigns impacts consumer responses. This study provides evidence of how the match of the demarketing campaign shown on a brand's home page and a following retargeting ad could impact perceived congruency and further downstream effects of ad argument and ad attitude while considering different browsing context effects.

How are Southeast Asia Countries Embracing Green Home Technology?

Physical development, which includes real estate activities, is currently very active in developing countries. This is especially true in Southeast Asian countries that aim to transform their countries into developed countries. Southeast Asia is rapidly industrialising and growing; this growth has resulted in a rise in energy consumption and environmental effects. Deforestation, landslides, pollution and the greenhouse effect have all been impacted by the global development process, which began in developed countries. Therefore, the idea of a green home or green building which embraces green technology has received attention. A green home is a set of household systems that reduce demand for natural resources and carbon emissions, resulting in improved human well-being, social equality, and a green economy. It incorporates eco-friendly strategies for water and waste management systems, such as rainwater harvesting and water recycling, in addition to energy-efficient structures. A green home is more than just a green building, but it symbolises a sustainable lifestyle based on environmentally friendly technologies and practices. This article aims to review the application of green technology in housing and to explore green homes in selected Southeast Asian countries. Secondary data was used for the purpose of this study. The review of articles found that Singapore is on the cutting edge of most technical advancements compared to Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand. Meanwhile, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand are concerned about housing affordability as this is the foundation for the majority of housing initiatives in these three countries, especially in Malaysia and Thailand.

Accelerating Medicines Partnership® Schizophrenia (AMP® SCZ): developing tools to enable early intervention in the psychosis highrisk state.

Accelerating Medicines Partnership® Schizophrenia (AMP® SCZ): developing tools to enable early intervention in the psychosis highrisk state.

Green bond home bias and the role of supply and sustainability preferences

Green bond home bias and the role of supply and sustainability preferences

An overlook on the relationship between green finance and the environment

This study aims to explain the relationship between green economy, green finance and the environment. Environmental sensitivities have become related to production with the increase in global warming, greenhouse gas emissions and carbon emission rates. As the relationship between production and the economy has increased, some financial instruments have emerged in order to be environmentally sensitive. The purpose of these products is primarily to protect the environment and to include environmentally conscious people in this financial system. In the personal or individual green finance dimension, green mortgages, green home loans, green commercial building loans, green car loans and green credit cards are the most prominent green financing. When environmental green financing products related to firms are analyzed, we come across some products such as green project finance, green securities, green technology leasing, carbon finance. Eco fund and carbon fund in the asset management section, car insurance, carbon insurance and green insurance in the insurance section. Considering that our environment is essential for all humanity, supporting and increasing green financing products that are environmentally sensitive will make more positive contributions both our country and the world.

Green Home Buying Intention of Malaysian Millennials: An Extension of Theory of Planned Behaviour

The empirical study aimed to examine the factors affecting green home buying intention in Malaysia. The study adopted the popular theory of individual decision-making, the theory of planned behaviour, but extended it with a few new variables to get better predictability. Based on the cross-sectional survey method and quota sampling technique, the instrument-like questionnaire was distributed to the potential buyers who had the intention to buy a home. Data were collected from 741 potential buyers who are young Malaysian students. Collected data were analysed using partial least squares (PLS) modelling (SmartPLS 3.0) in order to measure the strength of the independent variable effects on the dependent variable. The results indicate that attitude, perceived behavioural control subjective norms, perceived value, reasonable pricing and green building knowledge had a positive and significant effect on green home buying intention, with attitude showing the highest effect; the only exception is an environmental concern. This study also validated the theory of planned behaviour (TPB), which provides important insight for the firms involved with the housing development industry for their future business strategy.

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With energy bills on the rise, plenty of people are interested in ditching the fossil fuels currently used to heat most UK homes. The question is how to make it happen, as Margaret Harris explains.

Preferred green home features by potential buyers in Sibu Sarawak

Green concept was gaining attention since 1960s, with research and development initiatives been allocated to ensure its evolvement, for enhancing the minimization on the impact of global warming and greenhouse gases emissions. Enormous green home features be introduced worldwide, but such features were not collated into a single piece of information, and the preference of home buyers varies according to the culture, living environment, and personal preferences. This research aims to examine the relative importance of green home features to potential home buyers in Sibu, Sarawak. Purposive and random sampling methods were adopted as the participants need to meet the requirement of having intention to purchase a house in Sibu in the next five years. Quantitative online questionnaire survey was distributed to the potential home buyers with 118 valid responses returned (response rate 29.57%). The results indicated that air quality, energy saving lighting, and energy efficient air conditioner were the three most preferred features by the respondents. This research could contribute to the knowledge gap of the preferred green home features by the potential home buyers in Sibu, and hence, serve as a piece of supporting document to the developers, to meet buyers’ demand and further increase the supply of green home in Sibu.

Modelling Case Study of Compact Combination Hybrids as Low Disruption Decarbonised Heat

Transitioning from predominantly natural gas domestic heating to low carbon heating is one of the major challenges of the UK’s net zero decarbonisation pathway. Compact wall-hung combination boilers are the dominant heating appliance and continue to be installed as a rate of over 1.5 million per year, compared to less than 50 k per year for Heat Pumps. The disparity persists despite repeated Government support in the form of the Renewable Heat Incentive and the Green Homes Grant. Compact hybrid appliances offer a technology solution similar to the current combination boiler in terms of size and performance, which could be attractive to consumers. However, there is currently little knowledge of the emissions savings that could be achieved in practice by compact hybrid appliances. This research systematically analyses real world high frequency boiler data to evaluate the potential of such appliances to make carbon savings while emulating combination boiler operation. By utilising high frequency diagnostic data from combination boilers, the disaggregated (hot water and heating) demand is mapped onto hybrid models to determine the energy and emission impact. Exploration of the relative power output of the HP and boiler components of the modelled hybrid appliances provides insight into the appropriate specification of compact hybrids which can deliver similar heat service to boilers while maximising emissions savings. The analysis shows that hybrid appliances with moderately sized HPs can significantly contribute to the decarbonisation of the homes considered in the study. Considerable disruption could be avoided in retrofit due to the physical size of the proposed heat pump and ability of the hybrid system to operate with the existing heat emitter network.

Exploring Generation Z’s Perceptions of Green Homes

In recent years, there has been an increase in environmental awareness in the United States, leading to steady growth in environmentally conscious consumerism. Looking specifically at green home marketing, understanding the consumer behavior of the next generation of homebuyers, Generation Z (GenZ), is important for environmental and business reasons. This study surveyed 116 university students to explore the influence of specific barriers and types of motivation (intrinsic, instrumental, and non-normative) on their perceptions of green homes. Our findings suggest certain barriers have more influence on GenZ consumers than others, with the perceived lack of choice in selecting Green Home Features (GHFs) as the top barrier, followed by a lack of information about GHFs, and then the perceived effort to analyze GHFs. Furthermore, for GenZ consumers, intrinsic and non-normative motivations seem to significantly affect their willingness to buy green homes, whereas instrumental motivation does not. Our findings expand on previous studies on green consumer behavior to provide a new benchmark for understanding GenZ’s consumer behavior, specifically towards green homes. Our results can be used by marketers and policymakers to study future home trends, attract more potential buyers to green homes, and help create a sustainable environment for future generations.

Factors Influencing Consumers' Purchase Intention Towards Green Home Appliances.

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of after sales service (ASS), brand equity (BE), environmental awareness (EA), and product pricing (PP) towards consumer purchase intention (CPI) of green home appliance. Data were collected from 150 Penang, Malaysia citizen who were age from 18 to 60 via convenient sampling method analysed using partial least square structure equation modelling (SmartPLS). Results indicated that BE, EA, and PP has significant effect on CPI of green home appliance brand. However, ASS do not have significant effect on CPI on green home appliance brand. This research helps home appliance manufacturer to better design marketing promotions, considering the consumers focus on BE, EA, and pricing. In addition, this study provides consumer insight for the government agency to construct better policy in order to increase the green home appliance penetration rate among citizens.

RETRACTED: Real‐time agricultural field monitoring and smart irrigation architecture using the internet of things and quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles

AbstractFarming and agricultural production account for a substantial part of the global economic system, and most people rely on them for their living. In this perspective, real‐time agricultural field monitoring and smart irrigation using modern technologies are now important for effective farming in green homes, smart cities, and rural areas. Water is an essential resource to be conserved using the newest technology. The Internet of Things (IoT) and Industry 4.0 enable smart farming, including using Quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles (Q‐UAV) with computer vision. The IoT‐based smart irrigation management systems with real‐time sensors and Q‐UAVs have contributed to the optimum use of water resources in precision farming. The research presented an intelligent irrigation and field surveillance system using atmospheric and soil data such as temperature, humidity, salinity, wind speed, as well as photographs of the field using UAVs. The parameters mentioned above are available on the smartphone of the farmers using IoT and are hosted without any delay in the Firebase console. In addition to this, a user can control the water pump on various fields via Firebase Cloud Message platform. The intelligence and smartness of the proposed system are implemented with a powerful and low‐cost platform Raspberry Pi 4B system on chip computer with Industry 4.0 standard dedicated for IoT, real‐time embedded protocol interfacing, and computer vision applications.

Green Living: A Panacea for Secured Environment

An attempt has been made to establish that green living is a panacea for a secured environment. The paper noted that green environment also known as ecofriendly, nature friendly or nature green refers to goods and services, laws, guidelines and policies that help to reduce, minimize the harm upon the ecosystem or the environment. Going green activities that result to more environmentally friendly practices that help to safeguard the environment and sustains natural resources. Green science is all about sustainability to secure the ecosystem by reducing, reusing and recycling for continuity of species. Green spaces filter pollutants and dusts from the air. They produce shade and lower temperature in urban areas. They also increase productivity, promote green living that helps to conserve energy and prevent air, water and noise pollution. They are borne for the environment hence prevent health deterioration. Going green can improve general efficacy of a business and can trim operation costs for the business. The environment is the most important resource for life where we get water, power and oxygen hence regarded as our closest neighbour needed for survival. Going green is a choice and it contributes to the development of the planet and makes the place a healthier habitation to live for both present and future generations. Green homes are more durable, reduce carbon footprint, increase creativity, healthy air sufficiency, boost economy, increase floral diversity and allow non-toxicity of products. The study established that we have been living on nature and living green is the only time we pay back. Living green brings happiness and satisfaction to one because green is natural, wealthy, fruitful and productive hence helping to keep the environment secured. It is concluded that green living is a panacea for a secured environment.

The impact of green marketing tools on green product purchase behavior: the moderation effect of consumer demographics

Purpose: The green concept has become a major concern of the modern world when consumers buy a product. Sri Lankan consumers also change their purchasing behavior toward green purchases. Even though environmental actives influence humans and firms’ behavior very significantly, very limited academic disciplines have integrated the selected phenomenon into their literature especially true of marketing. Thus, this study focuses on whether Environmental Advertisements, Perception of Eco-labels, and Perception of Eco Brands impact on green purchasing behaviour. Design/methodology/approach: The present study empirically tests the theoretical model in social-ecological paradigm association with green advertising tools and green purchase behavior. A survey of 150 consumers who used electronic home appliances is conducted as a self-administrated questionnaire. Findings: According to the findings, green marketing tools positively impact Green Purchasing Behavior in the electronics home appliances market. Further, the moderation effects make sure consumer demographics such as gender and education level have significant effects on the green behavior of the electronic home appliances market, but the different marketing tools are different. Originality: This study provides penetrations into studying the impact of green marketing tools on consumer purchasing behaviour with consumer demographics and motivation to purchase green electronic home appliances. Implications: This study provides insights to marketers to use Environmental Advertisement, Eco-Labeling system, and Eco Brand System to motivate the customers to buy the green products. The green marketers can establish a uniform Eco-Label system with the support of the government. Further, the marketers can enhance customer awareness regarding the standardized Eco Label using the Environmental Advertisement. Keywords: Eco-Brand, Eco-Label, Environmental-Advertisement, Green Marketing Tools, Green Purchasing Behaviour

Sustainable and Robust Home Healthcare Logistics: A Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Today, research on healthcare logistics is an important challenge in developing and developed countries, especially when a pandemic such as COVID-19 occurs. The responses required during such a pandemic would benefit from an efficiently designed model for robust and sustainable healthcare logistics. In this study, we focus on home healthcare logistics and services for planning the routing and scheduling of caregivers to visit patients’ homes. Due to the need for social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic, these services are highly applicable for reducing the growth of the epidemic. In addition to this challenge, home healthcare logistics and services must be redesigned to meet the standards of a triple bottom line approach based on sustainable development goals. A triple bottom line approach finds a balance between economic, environmental, and social criteria for making a sustainable decision. Although, recently, the concept of green home healthcare has been studied based on the total cost and green emissions of home healthcare logistics and services, as far as we know, no research has been conducted on the formulation of a triple bottom line approach for home healthcare logistics and services. To achieve social justice for caregivers, the goal of balancing working time is to find a balance between unemployment time and overtime. Another contribution of this research is to develop a scenario-based robust optimization approach to address the uncertainty of home healthcare logistics and services and to assist with making robust decisions for home healthcare planning. Since our multi-objective optimization model for sustainable and robust home healthcare logistics and services is more complex than other studies, the last novel contribution of this research is to establish an efficient heuristic algorithm based on the Lagrangian relaxation theory. An initial solution is found by defining three heuristic algorithms. Our heuristic algorithms use a symmetric pattern for allocating patients to pharmacies and planning the routing of caregivers. Then, a combination of the epsilon constraint method and the Lagrangian relaxation theory is proposed to generate high-quality Pareto-based solutions in a reasonable time period. Finally, an extensive analysis is done to show that our multi-objective optimization model and proposed heuristic algorithm are efficient and practical, as well as some sensitivities are studied to provide some managerial insights for achieving sustainable and robust home healthcare services in practice.

Go Green or Go Home? Energy Transition, Directed Technical Change and Wage Inequality

Go Green or Go Home? Energy Transition, Directed Technical Change and Wage Inequality

Effect of Satisfaction with Conventional Housing on Willingness to Pay for Green Buildings in Makurdi

Examining willingness to pay for the green residential building has become necessary since modern technology in the built environment drives towards providing green buildings to reduce the adverse effect of the building sector on Mother Earth. Yet, it is worrisome that the building industry in Nigeria is struggling to meet housing needs with conventional buildings. Hence, this paper aimed to investigate the effect satisfaction with traditional housing has on willingness to pay for green buildings to aid green building investment decisions in Makurdi. Three objectives pursued aim. The survey research strategy adopted using questionnaires as a research instrument as suitable for contingent valuation surveys. Three hundred samples were taken from a sample frame of 552 using the stratified sampling technique. Data collected were analysed using weighted mean, binary logistic model, and linear regression. The findings revealed that Makurdi householders are satisfied with conventional housing yet are willing to pay a 3.3% premium price to purchase green buildings; satisfaction with traditional housing negatively affects willingness to pay for green buildings. However, such an effect is not significant. Recommendations are made to create awareness on the importance of building green while investors are advised to invest in green homes.

212 BUILT ENVIRONMENT OF NURSING HOMES AND INFECTION CONTROL AND PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS

BackgroundThe disproportionately high death rate of nursing home (NH) residents from COVID-19 in many countries, including Ireland, has focussed attention on infection prevention and control, including the built environment, in nursing homes. This has been a poorly researched topic to date, and we undertook a systematic review of evidence for architectural design measures which support infection control and pandemic preparedness.MethodsDatabases were screened for keywords related to NHs, built environment, infection prevention and control, and COVID-19; relevant papers were uploaded onto Covidence and screened for relevance. Data extracted from included articles was tabulated under 8 specific aspects of the built environment.ResultsOf 17 papers included in the final analysis, four studies found that larger nursing homes carried an increased risk of COVID-19 infection. Crowding in NHs was also a risk factor for infection, with a high crowding index associated with COVID-19 infection in five studies. Green House care homes, which are based on small clusters of domestic dwellings, fared better than traditional NHs. Two papers found an association between the location of NHs and the risk of COVID-19 infection, with urban NHs and those in areas of high prevalence being more at risk. Two papers identified internal fittings as a target for infection prevention and control. Seven papers highlighted the role of adequate ventilation in NHs in the prevention of spread of COVID-19. Only one paper described easy access to the outdoors as beneficial to infection control.ConclusionResidents of NHs are amongst the most vulnerable to COVID-19 infection. When designing and building NHs, the role of the built environment in controlling the spread of the virus should not be underestimated.This research supported by Science Foundation Ireland.