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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"pro-environmental behavior"”.
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Environmentalism Among Older Adults: Investigating Predictors of Pro-Environmental Behavior in Later Life
… for degradation of the natural environment, and environmental threats due to climate change are increasingly prevalent. Despite the immediate need to conserve the natural environment, the role of older adults in pro-environmental initiatives has largely been ignored. I conducted two studies to …
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Role and origin of human values in the study of pro-environmental behavior
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-12-04 without embargo terms
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Integrating Pro-Environmental Behavior with Transportation Network Modeling: User and System Level Strategies, Implementation, and Evaluation
… and emissions into the transportation planning process using novel systems modeling approaches. This research aims to find, investigate, and evaluate strategies that minimize carbon-based fuel consumption and emissions for a transportation network. We propose user and system level strategies …
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Cleansing Our Recycling Failures: How Guilt and Outrage Lead to Different Types of Pro-Environmental Behavior
… these messages, and do they create individual behavioral changes? According to research on moral self-regulation, failing to act morally can threaten a person’s moral self-concept, eliciting moral emotions (i.e., guilt and outrage), and motivating compensatory behavior (such as increased …
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The experience sampling method, Apple iPhones, and investigating the relationship between values, subjective well-being and pro-environmental behavior
Recent research shows that humans' private-sphere behavior, or the purchase, use, and disposal of personal and household products, is responsible for exacerbating climate change, bio-diversity loss and environmental degradation. Some believe that these rates of change, loss and degradation are …
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An ethnographic investigation of the process of change in students' environmental identity and pro-environmental behavior in an Environmental Science course
<p>In recent years, the Environmental Science course has become increasingly integrated into the high school curriculum as a component of the core curriculum, an AP course, or as an elective (Edelson, 2007); however, little research has been conducted to evaluate the course's effectiveness in …
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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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Detrimental Determinants: The Impacts of Neoliberalism on Pro-Environmental Behaviors
… studies 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 …
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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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Creating Sustainable Supply Chains: Influencing Sustainable Practices in the Supply Chain
… supply chains. Ultimately, supply chain professionals are the drivers of change within their respective organizations, so this dissertation examines the role of communication as a tool to persuade supply chain professionals to create sustainable supply chains. The three studies within …
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The Boston Indicators Project : the role of indicators in supporting environmental efforts in the Boston metropolitan region
Community indicators projects are an increasingly popular way to measure, track, and, advocates claim, make progress. The commonly held belief is that indicators provide residents, governments, private entities, and community groups with the information they need to make "wise choices." Many …
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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 …
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Television, mass media, and environmental cultivation: a study of private forest landowners in Delaware
… in Delaware to extend previous studies into “environmental cultivation,” a research perspective that explores the theoretical link between television exposure and potential differences in the ecological worldviews of lighter versus heavier viewers. The study also sought to assess possible …
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Designer-User Validation of a Method for Predicting Cognitive Interventions for Sustainable Product Design
Life cycle assessments to measure the environmental impact of products is often limited by a lack of information about the use phase of a product. To aid this gap by encouraging sustainable user behavior from the early brainstorming and prototype phases of product development, principles of …
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Protesting conservation by protecting the environment: A case study from the Indian Himalayas
… action. Through a series of dramatic non-violent protests, villagers have expressed their opposition passionately and prominently. Paradoxically, the fight against the sanctuary appears to have galvanized area residents to protect their resources; villagers recently decided to create their own …
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Investigating Radical High-Involvement Eco-Innovations: The Case of Household Biogas in the U.S.
… of generating biogas and fertilizer through processing organic waste at its point-of-source (POS). The HD may surpass other high-involvement eco-innovations in respect to levels of involvement necessary for consumer routinization and sustained operation. However, previously unexplored factors …
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Understanding Food Waste Behavior and Ways To Influence Positive Change and Waste Reduction
<p>Environmental problems such as pollution, climate change, and food waste can be influenced by social attitudes and human behavior. Solutions to address environmental problems involve a series of actions by society and individuals, which can prove difficult to implement because changes induced by …
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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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