Model Of Pro-environmental Behavior Research Articles

Turning the Tide: An Analysis of Factors Influencing the Adoption of Biodiversity-Enhancing Measures on Agricultural Land at the German Baltic Coast

The agricultural sector plays a major role in turning the tide of biodiversity loss. In the European Union, land use decisions and biodiversity are strongly influenced by the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Despite massive investment in subsidies to incentivize environmentally friendly farming practices, the CAP has so far failed to preserve the biodiversity of Europe’s farmland. A simplistic understanding of farmers’ motivations, dominated by rational, economic cost–benefit considerations, is one of the reasons for this failure. Our study contributes to this discussion through the identification of factors influencing the decision making of farmers. Through a case study approach in a biodiversity-rich region on the German Baltic coast—the so-called hotspot 29—we classify a number of personal, social/group, and external factors relevant to the implementation of biodiversity-enhancing measures on agricultural land. Applying a model of pro-environmental behavior, we illustrate the interlinkages between factors and outline potential solutions to support biodiversity-enhancing behavior.

Using the social identity model of pro-environmental behavior to predict support for the adoption of solar panels

Using the social identity model of pro-environmental behavior to predict support for the adoption of solar panels

Pro-Environmental Behavior Learning by Using a Mini Research Project and Its Impact on Problem Solving Abilities

Currently students are expected to have the ability to solve environmental problems, especially in everyday life, which is known as pro-environmental behavior or actions. One of the strategies in teaching students' problem solving abilities is by learning mini research to solve problems in the surrounding environment, especially in the scope of biology. This study aims to analyze the effect of pro-environmental behavior learning by using a mini research project on problem solving abilities and how much influence it has on students in Senior High School. The research method used is associative quantitative with comparative type. The population in this study were students of ten grade Senior High School in science class and from this population a sample would be taken using simple random sampling technique, with a total sample of 96 students from three classes. This research procedure includes the preparation stage, implementation stage and data analysis stage. The research instruments used were in the form of question sheets and questionnaires. Based on the data obtained, the average score of the highest problem solving value is 74.7 and the lowest is 68.9. Then it can be concluded that there is an influence from the use of learning with a mini research project on problem solving abilities. The implication of this research is that it can be used by teaching staff as a reference in using the integrated mini research learning model of pro environmental behavior to improve students' problem solving abilities.

An Integrative Model of Tourists' Pro-Environmental Behavior Based on the Dual Path of Rational Planning and Embodied Emotion.

Tourists’ pro-environmental behavior is one of the key factors for the sustainable development of natural scenic spots. Although this behavior depends on the surroundings and context, the existing literature lacks the perspective of specific scenarios, especially that of embodied emotions. This research integrated the theory of planned behavior and embodied theory to construct an integrative model of pro-environmental behavior that combined tourists’ “rational planning” and “embodied emotion” and conducted an empirical study. The results show that in natural scenic spots, “rational planning” and “embodied emotion” affect tourists’ pro-environmental behavior simultaneously on dual paths, and factors such as behavioral attitude, perceived behavioral control, subjective norm, engagement with nature, and connectedness to nature have different effects on high- and low-effort pro-environmental behavioral intentions. The findings of the study provide a new explanatory perspective for individual pro-environmental behaviors and a basis for effectively predicting and guiding tourists’ pro-environmental behaviors in natural scenic spots.

Pro-environmental Behaviours and Protection Motivation Theory: A Case of Two Universities in Bandung, Indonesia

Abstract: Maladaptive behavior towards the environment can threaten environmental conditions and this requires a more in-depth analysis. Students as part of the younger generation have the responsibility as educators, planners, and policy makers on environmental issues for a sustainable future so that research on university students’ pro-environmental behavior is needed. This study adopted a developed causal model of pro-environmental behavior based on Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) in a sample of 363 Indonesian university students. This theory is expected to identify barriers and impulses in carrying out pro-environmental behavior. Based on the results, environmental attitude, self-efficacy, response costs, intrinsic and extrinsic rewards from maladaptive behavior to the environment, and perceived severity of respondents' have a direct and significant effect on pro-environmental behavior. In addition, perceived vulnerability has an indirect effect on pro-environmental behavior through the level of perceived severity. Improving pro-environmental behavior for students could be focused on environmental attitude and self-efficacy through environmental protection based on tested causal model. Keywords: pro-environmental behavior, protection motivation theory, environmental attitude, self-efficacy, perceived severity.

Barriers to a sustainability transformation of meat production practices - An industry actor perspective

The negative impacts caused by current industrial meat production challenge industry actors to transform meat production towards more sustainable practices. However, despite the necessity for change and the availability of various sustainability solutions, transformational shifts have failed to materialize, so far. This study applies and extends the Kollmuss-Agyeman model of pro-environmental behavior to the context of producers and analyzes their perceived barriers to the transformation of meat production practices. The qualitative empirical study is based on 23 interviews with actors along the meat production chain. The analysis reveals that industry actors’ perceived barriers are highly complex. This complexity results from (1) multiple interactions among and between internal and external influencing factors and (2) the simultaneous existence of barriers that reinforce the status quo on the one hand and restrain the pursuit of sustainable production practices on the other hand. Based on these findings, opportunities for overcoming barriers are discussed in today's context. This study's contributions are twofold: First, the analysis complements previous research on barriers to sustainable meat production practices by detailing barriers and their interactions for actors along the entire meat production chain. Second, this investigation extends the Kollmuss-Agyeman model by specifying interactions of external influencing factors and by differentiating reinforcement and restraint barriers relevant for producers.

THE PRO-ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOR PATTERNS OF COLLEGE STUDENTS ADAPTING TO CLIMATE CHANGE

As the impact of climate change is increasingly intense, environmental educators of higher education would like to know the influencing factors for college students to proceed financial strategies, such as flood insurance or energy taxes, to adapt climate change; however, the sustainable environmental education provided by most colleagues still lags far behind the pace of business and government. The research is aimed at eight colleagues in Taiwan and is an undergraduate student taking courses in general environmental education. As diverse courses integrate climate change issues, distributed 1,000 questionnaires were proportionally allocated to each university according to the number of students who had taken the course; a total of 866 questionnaires were recovered. The pro-environmental behavior model be validated, and assess the correlations among risk perception, economic incentives, intrinsic motivation, sacrifice for the environment, place attachment, cheerful emotion, and social norm with partial least squares regression. For college students with high or medium knowledge on climate change, this research demonstrated that if pro-environmental behaviors bring cheerful feeling, they will induce their intrinsic motivation; meanwhile, because of environmental sacrifice and social norms, pro-environmental behaviors will trigger cheerful feeling. Keywords: climate change, knowledge levels, partial least square, place attachment, pro-environmental behavior.

Green event directed pro-environmental behavior: an application of goal systems theory

This research proposes the green event directed pro-environmental behavior model to articulate how green events could induce favorable eco-friendly behaviors beyond the event domain. Drawing on goal systems theory and other theoretical premises, this research showcases how personal involvement with green events and frequency of past behaviors in attending such events could possess boundary conditions that moderate the role of green event attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control on pro-environmental behaviors through one’s valuation and patronage propensity of event greening. It also highlights a mechanism that inspires attendees to strive to attain their goals in pursuing a lifestyle that appreciates learning ways to better reduce pollution and energy usage, consuming green products, and managing waste; yet there is a weakening stimulus from event greening on the individual’s greening behaviors over time. This research opens an avenue to demonstrate a transformative mechanism, manifested through subsequent knowledge gain and then behavioral change impelled from attending green events, as a collective action that can ultimately benefit the entire world. This learning process renders a synthesis between short-term knowledge acquisition and long-term implications for life.

Pro-environmental behavior model creating circular economy in steel recycling market, empirical study in Thailand

The purpose of this study is to examine the variables that influence both the Circular Economy (CE) and pro-environmental behavior in steel recycling manufacturing companies in Thailand. To develop and examine a model using structural equation modeling (SEM), we used a set of CE indicators proposed in previous studies. The variables identified in this study were determined through responses from stakeholders in the steel manufacturing and scrap management industries. A questionnaire-based survey was used to analyze the study target's (foundries, castings, and steel recycling manufacturers) behavior. Respondents contended that they value long-term relationships with suppliers. Quality control has a sizable impact on lean manufacturing techniques. Recycling costs and environmental concerns both have an effect on how behavioral control is perceived. It is critical for society to be educated about the circular economy and its practices. Environmental commitment is the most critical factor in the circular economy's success. The findings indicate that the most significant influence on the Circular Economy is the social willingness to recycle (CE). The study investigates the relationship between social willingness to recycle (SWR) and lean manufacturing techniques (LMT) and the success of circular economy practices. Environmentally responsible behavioral practices both promote and contribute to high levels of productivity. The CE's promotion is critical in light of the current trend toward globalization. We propose that steel manufacturers must continue to innovate in technical or non-technical ways, most notably through the use of efficient equipment such as pre-shredders, shredders, and power plants that accelerate long-term mineral resource savings.

How does Schwartz's theory of human values affect the proenvironmental behavior model?

PurposeThe diversity of perspectives means that one can find many factors and models of proenvironmental behavior. However, they typically suffer from limitations and varying degrees of validity in specific contexts, suggesting that today the prime goal should be to learn and improve the models which have been already developed. In this study, the authors build on the model for predicting proenvironmental behavior developed by Oreg and Katz-Gerro (2006), namely one of the most comprehensive cross-national proenvironmental behavior models and one of the few not to be limited to either a local or single-country context or specific proenvironmental behavior.Design/methodology/approachBy using the statistical matching technique, the authors merged data from two existing databases without common identifiers – the International Social Survey Program (environmental module) and the European Social Survey (Round 5). The resulting multinational data concerning 9,710 observations enabled a replication with extensions of Oreg and Katz-Gerro's (2006) proenvironmental behavior model that incorporates newly added Schwartz's theory of human values. To achieve the study's main objective, that is, to present improvements to the original model of proenvironmental behavior, the authors used structural equation modeling (SEM) procedures to estimate four competing models in the R program.FindingsThis study implies that Schwartz's individually measured motivational types of values (benevolence [BE], universalism [UN], self-direction [SD]) are predictors of people's proenvironmental behavior, while his conceptualization of post-materialism yields a better model fit than Inglehart's country-level post-materialism scores. The results also corroborate previous findings that post-materialist values can stimulate proenvironmental behaviors through attitudes, perceived behavioral control and intentions. The present study reveals that proenvironmental attitudes did not change substantially in the 10-year period, even though the world's environmental and sustainability challenges have largely increased. Surprisingly, the mean value of several of the perceived threat variables even decreased.Originality/valueThe authors externally validate one of the most comprehensive proenvironmental behavior models by reproducing it using new multinational large-sample data with nearly 10,000 observations collected 10 years later. The most significant addition to the original model introduced in the current study is the inclusion of Schwartz's motivational types of values, which are measured at the individual level, namely BE, UN and SD. The authors also extend the model by adding proenvironmental behavior measures and group the construct into three latent variables: saving natural resources, green purchasing and environmental activism.

Study on Changes in Consciousness and Behavior for Participants in Global Warming Prevention Lectures: The Effect of Contents Based on the Pro-Environmental Behavior Model

Study on Changes in Consciousness and Behavior for Participants in Global Warming Prevention Lectures: The Effect of Contents Based on the Pro-Environmental Behavior Model

Factors Affecting Conservation Behaviors toward Suburban Satoyama Landscape by Using Two-phase Model of Pro-environmental Behavior

Factors Affecting Conservation Behaviors toward Suburban Satoyama Landscape by Using Two-phase Model of Pro-environmental Behavior

A pro-environmental behavior model for investigating the roles of social norm, risk perception, and place attachment on adaptation strategies of climate change.

Today's climate change is a major problem and challenge for the global environment and human civilization, and it can lead to dramatical floods over specific regions. As climate change intensifies, climate change adaptation strategies, such as flood insurance, energy taxes, and other risky financial strategies, have drawn worldwide attention and discussion. Risk control methods have been widely used to mitigate the impact of climate change on past flood losses, but past risk control strategies on climate change have not focused on the exploration of the relationship between environment, society, and humans. Based on the theoretical model of pro-environmental behavior, this study compares and analyzes four theoretical models and proposes a modified competitiveness model to effectively predict the pro-environmental behavior of college students with partial least squares (PLS) manner. Social norm could play a dominant role of mediator between risk perception, place attachment, and pro-environmental behavior. Although risk perception and local attachment are positively related to risk financial strategy, the promotion of social norms will increase the intention of risk financial strategy. For intention of risk financial strategies within pro-environmental behavior, the efficiency of enhancing local attachment was higher than that of risk perception.

An innovative environmental citizen behavior model: Recycling intention as climate change mitigation strategies

Climate change has been led to the increasing magnitude of frequency and severity of extreme weather, causing serious damage to overall economy of a country and individual economy of enterprises. Only relying on government subsidy to combat the impact of climate change, the work could be in vain. This study tries to use recycling action as mitigation strategies of climate change, and analyze the dominant influencing factors that affect recycling intention. This study stands in the perspective of green education in universities, regards the recycling intentions in response to climate change as pro-environmental behaviors, and revises and verifies the citizen pro-environmental behavior model. The green educations programs can communicate, promote, active and internalize the environmental citizenship through resource recycling intentions. Students learn about the importance of advocacy and activism to environmental citizenship, then generate environmentally sustainable and recycling intentions, and achieve the goal of improving the environment and mitigating to climate change.

Feasible Options for Behavior Change Toward More Effective Ocean Literacy: A Systematic Review

Effective ocean literacy requires appropriate individual behavior, but achieving this – based on behavior change - is extremely difficult. Social-psychological research shows that even generating knowledge and awareness towards protecting the environment - including the oceans - very rarely produces behavior change. The correlation between knowledge and behavior change is demonstrably surprisingly low. Based upon a systematic interdisciplinary literature review, this article evaluates the factors constituting behavior that are important for ocean literacy. Furthermore, it includes an analysis of options for individual behavior change. The literature review covers research and theories from behavioral sciences such as social, environmental, and emotional psychology, as well as from other social sciences. Specifically, research on pro-environmental behavior is evaluated and applied to the specific case of ocean-related behaviors and ocean literacy. As a result, the model of pro-environmental behavior by Kollmuss and Agyeman has successfully been transferred to increase the effectiveness of ocean literacy because it considers internal (e.g. emotions and values) and external factors (e.g. politico-economic and socio-cultural), which are crucial to achieve behavior change. Further results show that the theoretical analysis of different influence factors of ocean related behavior help to identify options to enhance ocean literacy, partially not yet broadly applied in this field, such as reputation-based incentives, social marketing, and successfully diffusing social change, which is illustrated within two examples of success stories. Nevertheless, improvements remain challenging due to barriers identified on the individual level (e.g. cognitive dissonance and moral disengagement) and adverse political and economic power relations in light of rapidly increasing environmental problems in our oceans.

Pro-Environmental Behavior and Bioeconomy: Reflections on Single-Bottled Water Consumption

Nowadays, many global challenges such as climate change, food security, health, industrial restructuring, and energy conservation may be solved by applying the principles of bioeconomy. Adequately implementing the principles of Bioeconomy ensures a transition from a fossil-based economy to a bio-based economy. Although in most European countries, there is clean, safe and reliable drinking water, the bottled water industry has the fastest growing rate with severe consequences for the environment. This research assesses the intentions of Romanian university students regarding single-bottled water usage by implementing a pro-environmental behavior model. As such, this study extends the existing literature on pro-environmental behavior by identifying the factors specific to the single-bottled water consumption. The model encompassed the following factors which would influence the bottled water consumption: safety and hygiene, personal benefit, locus of control, personal responsibility, health benefits, environmental concerns, knowledge of action strategies and intention to adopt a pro-environmental behavior. Using Structural Equation Modeling, we validated the pro-environmental single-bottled water consumption model on a sample of 283 university students, with the mean age of 20. The nonprobabilistic sampling method was homogenous convenience type, nonrepresentative but with the possibility to determine an ideal defined group. The findings revealed that the primary motivation of the respondents to use bottled water was safety and hygiene and they would engage in a pro-environmental behavior in using refillable bottles for drinking water. Further, the study outlined the main implications for both theory and practice.

The Investigation of Consumers’ Behavior Intention in Using Green Skincare Products: A Pro-Environmental Behavior Model Approach

Increasing environmental awareness among societies is motivating consumers to use green cosmetic products. Green skincare products are the fastest growing sector in the worldwide market compared with other green cosmetic products. However, compared with general cosmetic products, the market share of green cosmetic products in Indonesia is relatively low. The present research investigated consumers’ purchasing intentions toward green skincare products in Indonesia using the pro-environmental reasoned action (PERA) model. A total of 251 female consumers participated in this study. Structural equation modeling was conducted to reveal the relationships between the five factors in the PERA model. The results indicated that perceived authority support (PAS) has a positive effect on perceived environmental concern (PEC). PAS and PEC have positive effects on attitude (AT) and subjective norms (SN), and AT and SN have positive effects on behavioral intention (BI) to purchase green skincare products, with the key factor being attitude. The PERA model was able to describe 62.6% of the BI to purchase green skincare products. Green skincare companies are recommended to produce more green skincare products and market the products by involving public figures and emphasizing the green attributes. Furthermore, we recommend that green skincare companies produce quality and sustainable products using quality processes, and be involved in pro-environmental activity to increase consumer attention to the green skincare products.

Toward a Theoretical Framework for Studying Climate Change Policies: Insights from the Case Study of Singapore

The world decided in December 2015 to take actions to reduce global warming. To contribute toward this goal, this research examines possible policy levers for inclusion in the climate change ratification plan. A case study of the measures taken by the Republic of Singapore, a low-lying 719.2 km2 island without natural resources in Asia, is conducted. Being vulnerable to climate change impact and yet having to balance her people’s needs and economic progress with limited resources, the measures taken by this small country could offer policy insights for small states and states without access to alternative energy sources. This research analyzes the online policy documents posted by eleven organizations to answer the main research question of identifying policy levers as theoretical constructs to form a framework that can be used to study climate change policies. A qualitative data analysis software, QSR NVivo 10, is used to classify the proposed nodes developed by the researchers using a system perspective integrating the insights from the key international climate change frameworks with the theoretical concepts from the model of pro-environmental behavior. The findings can offer insights toward developing a new contextual influence framework, which can help strengthen policy development and outcome measurement.

Informing environmental problems through field analysis: Toward a community landscape theory of pro-environmental behavior

The physical and social environments influence individual values, perceptions, and actions from which community emerges. These relationships outline a multi-level transdisciplinary framework of interactions that inform human behavior. This article seeks to accomplish three things: (1) to construct a rationale for unifying commonalities among field-based concepts of behavior, landscape, and community; (2) to describe a transdisciplinary field theory-based model of pro-environmental behavior; and (3) to provide a hypothetical application. Finally, we present a community landscape model of pro-environmental behavior as a framework for addressing complex and wicked environmental problems that require transdisciplinary approaches.

PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTANCE AND PRO-ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOR: AN APPLICATION OF BEHAVIOR MODEL TO EMERGING CONTAMINANTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION

To help mitigate and educate the negative impacts of emerging contaminants (ECs), this research tried to realize the environmental attitude and environmental behavioral intention of students in the field of environmental education at higher education level. However, little is known about integration of psychological distance, environmental attitude, behavioral intention and effective teaching strategies on emerging contaminants for undergraduate students within a behavior model. This research proposed a pro-environmental behavior model, integrated with Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), Value-Belief-Norm (VBN) model and psychological distance to realize causal relationships among latent variables that instructors concerned. In a cross-sectional survey, this research effectively surveyed 851 respondents of five universities in Taiwan through self-report questionnaires. This research utilized bootstrapping manner and Smart-PLS software to identify the crucial relationships between two formative factors (environmental attachment and psychological distance), value and beliefs and behavior intention on ECs. The level of ECs knowledge was treated as a moderator, and results indicated significant moderator effects on environmental attachment toward environmental attitude, and environmental attitude toward behavioral intention. The results provide empirical support for some previous identified barriers to pro-environmental behavioral intention and suggest guidelines for effective pro-environmental behavior on ECs issues. Key words: partial least squares, behavioral intention, emerging contaminants, theory of planned behavior, value–belief–norm theory.