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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Sustainable Behavior"”.
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Community-based social marketing at the neighborhood scale : sustainable behavior or neighborhood sustainability?
… long-term sustainability as defined in the sustainable communities literature. My research focuses on the potential opportunities and limitations of CBSM in three very different neighborhoods in the Greater Toronto Area. Interviews with homeowners in the three neighborhoods revealed …
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Examining the Status and Future of Design for Sustainable Behavior in Interior Design Education
… industry's commendable efforts for creating sustainable environments, numerous studies have shown buildings are not achieving the environmental goals designers and architects are predicting during the design phase. This has been attributed to a number of factors including occupants' …
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Building Sustainable Behavior through Social Marketing: Encouraging Reusable Shopping Bag Use at Stadium Thriftway in Tacoma, WA - A Case Study
… environmental costs because there is a more sustainable alternative in reusable bags. However, in order to pass and enforce successful bag regulations, bag legislation proponents have to garner community support and involvement. Therefore, community-based social marketing (CBSM) is examined …
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Building voluntary sustainability : how urban design can promote care for ecological systems
Human behavior is, in aggregate present state, unsustainable by the ecosystem of the earth. This thesis develops a behavior change model of how societies can move from unsustainable to sustainable behavior, and, because behavior is in large part a result of personal conviction, the factors that …
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Tvarumas Japonijos dovanų kultūroje /
… thesis focuses on the culture of gift-giving and sustainable gift consumption in Japan. The aim of the thesis is to find out whether ideas of sustainability are implemented in the Japanese gift culture. The objectives of the thesis are: 1) to present the origins of gift culture, its main features …
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Using the Theory of Reasoned Action and Planned Behavior to Create a Point-of-Use Water Treatment Behavior-Change Campaign Within the Safe Water System
… Kenya. Research explored how a Western-developed behavior-change theoretical model could be applied in a developing country. Data was collected through focus groups, a case study and direct observations. Recommendations were made for an intervention to reduce the incidence of childhood diarrhea. A …
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Doing More with Less: A Quantitative Analysis of Mindfulness, Meditation, Sustainable Consumption Awareness and Practice among University Undergraduates
… the search for strategies to promote more sustainable behavior has become a topic for investigation. Universities are uniquely positioned to help students work toward sustainable solutions. This research explored the role of mindfulness in university students' sustainable consumption …
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The multifaceted world of sustainability. An analysis of about 30 years of studies
… meet their own needs” (United Nations, 1987:43), sustainable development constituted the main topic of the Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. The conference distinguished itself in the world of academia by establishing the principles of sustainable development and …
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Investigating Interventions in Fine-grained Contexts for Habit Formation
Behavior change is important, yet hard to sustain. Habits are automatic responses to specific contextual cues, and can help sustain behavior change. Fine-grained specific contexts are commonly used in habit formation, but interventions in automatically-detected fine-grained contexts have rarely …
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Factors Associated with African American Women’s Sexual Health and Risk Behavior: A Mixed Methods Study
… there are multiple conditions related to sexual behavior posing a burden on the health of African American women (AAW). Disproportionate rates of sexually transmitted infections, unintended/teen pregnancy, and sexual violence in this group reveal the need to integrate a broader construct to …
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Rocky Mountain National Park waste audit and recycling behavioral change intervention initiative
… campground in RMNP, was selected for a two-year behavior change campaign and study. Community-based Social Marketing (CBSM) was used as the framework to identify strategies to increase recycling behaviors of park visitors. In accordance with CBSM, observations of waste disposal behaviors and …