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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Environmental Behaviors"”.
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Detrimental Determinants: The Impacts of Neoliberalism on Pro-Environmental Behaviors
… have considered salient indicators of pro-environmental behavior (PEB) in the United States, little research has assessed how economic ideologies influence such behaviors at the individual level. Accordingly, this study develops and tests a sociological augmentation of the Theory of Planned …
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Pro-Environmental Behaviors in the Workplace: Is Concern for the Environment Enough?
… practices in organizations, individuals' pro-environmental behaviors (PEBs) in the workplace have not received much attention. A primary goal of this study was to gain a better understanding of the factors related to PEBs in the workplace and to further our understanding of the relationship …
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Stewarding emotional places: Effects of place and emotion on pro-environmental behaviors in working landscapes
… of social-psychological forces on human behaviors that influence the environment is a vital aspect of understanding and identifying practices and policies that act on these forces to promote conservation of complex social-ecological systems. This research closely examines the …
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The Influence of Images of Climate Change Causes, Consequences, and Solutions on the Relationships Between Pro-Environmental Motivation and Change in the Intentions to Engage in Pro-Environmental Behaviors: A Comparison of Motivational Frameworks
… In order to motivate individuals to adopt pro-environmental behaviors (PEBs), it is important to understand how individuals react when exposed to persuasive messages. The goal of this program of research was to examine the influence of images of climate change causes, consequences, and …
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Comparison of Occupant Behavior in a Traditional, Green Featured, and LEED Certified Building Case
… emission reduction. Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) took early action to promote sustainable designs in buildings and has become the most well-known rating system in the field of building sustainability. However, little research has evaluated the effects of LEED on …
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Impact of early-exposure environmental education on a child's selection of words and creativity
Environmental education researchers have long identified a connection between formative play experiences in nature settings and pro-environmental behaviors (i.e., career paths) of their subjects later in life. Most studies have been post-hoc retrospective looks that have not had the ability to …
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Employee Motives for Engaging in Environmentally Sustainable Behaviors: A Multi-Study Analysis
This research examines motives for environmentally sustainable (or “green”) employee behavior. Although individuals’ motives for pro-environmental behavior were previously explored in non-workplace domains, systematic attempts to identify the barriers and motives of employee green behavior are …
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle? An Examination of Factors Influencing Environmental Behavior in Denver, Colorado
… gas emissions. Recycling and composting are pro-environmental behaviors that have been shown to be influenced by numerous socio-demographic and psychological factors. This study analyzes the correlation of a number of variables with frequency of recycling and composting in select census tracts in …
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God will take care of it: how belief in an intervening God decreases concern for climate change
… God reported decreased moralization of pro-environmental behaviors and decreased biocentric views of nature. Findings from Study 1 and 2 provide preliminary evidence that belief in divine intervention can have negative consequences on attitudes towards climate change. Study 3 examined …
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BEYOND BELIEFS. FROM CLIMATE ATTITUDES TO CLIMATE ACTIONS
… it examines (i) the weak relationship between environmental concern and environmental intentions (the climate attitudes-behavior gap), (ii) the economic and climate-related factors influencing individuals’ willingness to pay for environmental protection, (iii) the effect of recalling an extreme …
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Is Colorado Buddhism Green? A Study of the Interaction of Buddhist Practice with Environmental Concerns
… is paying more attention to our growing environmental crisis. Religious beliefs are often proposed as effective ways to address environmental ethics. It is often supposed that Buddhism is a "green" religion because of its intimate associations with nature. My research focuses on whether …
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DEVELOPMENT OF AN EMPLOYEE GREEN BEHAVIOR DESCRIPTIVE NORMS SCALE
… and researchers have begun to examine pro-environmental behaviors in the workplace (i.e. employee green behaviors). However, general understanding of employee green behaviors is currently limited due to a lack of measurement tools. In this study, a new scale was developed to measure …
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ENVIRONMENTAL MODEL ACCURACY IMPROVEMENT FRAMEWORK USING STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES AND A NOVEL TRAINING APPROACH
It is challenging to predict environmental behaviors because of extreme events, such as heatwaves, typhoons, droughts, tsunamis, torrential downpour, wind ramps, or hurricanes. In this thesis, we proposed a novel framework to improve environmental model accuracy with a novel training approach. …
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Effect of oxygen potential on high temperature crack growth in alloy 617
… to be intergranular and exhibited two different environmental behaviors. At a stress intensity factor of 49.5 MPa'Im, decreasing the oxygen potential lead to an increase in crack growth rates. However, the static loading crack growth rates 33.0 MPadm exhibited negligible variation with oxygen …
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An examination of the impact of non-formal and informal learning on adult environmental knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors.
The purpose of this research is to consider the environmental knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors, of adults in Minnesota, and possible factors that influence environmental literacy. Specifically, this study is designed to: (1) measure the environmental literacy of Minnesota adults, (2) explore …
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SHOULD COMMUNICATION INTERVENTIONS PROMOTING HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOR CHANGE ADDRESS MISINFORMATION BELIEFS? IMPLICATIONS FROM TWO NATIONALLY REPRESENTATIVE LONGITUDINAL SURVEY STUDIES AND A RANDOMIZED ONLINE EXPERIMENT
… to distinguish beliefs that are specific to two behaviors of interest from misinformation and conspiracy theory beliefs that are relevant to, but are not explicitly specific to, these behaviors. Finally, Study 4 provides experimental evidence that such topic-related conspiracy theory and general …
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Hope's resilience: moderating climate threat and future outlooks
… well-being, protection against maladaptive behaviors, and lower anxiety and rumination). Thus, there is an important relation between perceptions of climate change and perceptions of the future, which both have implications for mental health. It is crucial to now consider what factors may …
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The Culture of Green: The Role of Cultural Worldviews, Psychological Connectedness, Time Discounting, and Social Norms in Environmental Decisions
… decisions, social norms, policy preferences, and behaviors in the environmental domain. Looking closely at the environmental domain allows for a unique opportunity to examine whether or not cultural worldviews or social norms are motivating environmental behaviors (e.g. energy conservation). It is …
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A comparison of driving characteristics and environmental characteristics using factor analysis and k-means clustering algorithm
… aims to classify drivers based on driving and environmental behaviors. The research determined significant factors using factor analysis, identified different driver types using k-means clustering, and studied how the same drivers map in each classification domain. The research consists of two …
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