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Krajhanzl, Jan, and Jan Skalík. "Czech Greenpeace Donors and the Barriers to their Climate-Friendly Household Behaviour." Sociální studia / Social Studies 12, no. 3 (July 20, 2015): 71–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/soc2015-3-71.
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Hartmann, Patrick, Vanessa Apaolaza, and Clare D’Souza. "The role of psychological empowerment in climate-protective consumer behaviour." European Journal of Marketing 52, no. 1/2 (February 12, 2018): 392–417. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ejm-01-2017-0080.
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Purpose This paper aims to address the role of psychological empowerment in proenvironmental consumer behaviour, focussing on climate protection. Design/methodology/approach Study 1 analyses the interaction of the effects of psychological empowerment and personal norms on two environmental behaviours with a sample of 600 individuals drawn form a representative online panel of the Australian population. Study 2 addresses the reinforcing influence of empowerment with a quasi-experimental design comparing 300 consumers of green electricity with 300 conventional electricity clients. Findings Psychological empowerment moderates the effects of personal norms on climate-protective consumer behaviour in a value-belief-norm (VBN) framework. Personal norms have a stronger influence for consumers experiencing high psychological empowerment than for disempowered feeling consumers. Furthermore, psychological empowerment experienced as an outcome of actual proenvironmental behaviour mediates the relationship between prior climate protection and future climate-protective intentions. Research limitations/implications Future research should focus on the experimental manipulation of psychological empowerment with communicational claims, studying how perceived empowerment can be enhanced. Practical implications To promote climate friendly products and behaviours, marketers should use communication claims aimed at enhancing consumer’s subjective experience of empowerment. Social implications Public policy aimed at climate protection should focus on consumer education increasing consumers’ awareness of their potential influence. Originality/value Psychological empowerment has not been studied previously as either an antecedent or outcome of proenvironmental behaviour. This is the first study to show that psychological empowerment moderates normative influences on climate-protective consumer behaviour. This research further reveals a novel behavioural reinforcement process, in which psychological empowerment intervenes as a behavioural outcome as well as an antecedent of climate-protective consumer behaviour. Findings contribute to the development of the VBN framework as well as to the consumer-empowerment perspective on proenvironmental behaviour.
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Chelvarayan, Anushia, S. Thayalan Sandrasegaran, and Yeo Sook Fern. "Green Purchase Behaviour among Students in Higher Learning Institutions." 12th GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON BUSINESS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 12, no. 1 (October 8, 2021): 56. http://dx.doi.org/10.35609/gcbssproceeding.2021.12(56).
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For the past few decades, because of the environmental hazards, green purchase has been subject to wide ranges of studies. Subsequently, understanding the intellectual structure of the green purchase behaviour is increasingly becoming important. As we progress towards globalisation, environmental issue in the form of climate change such as increasing temperature, increasing sea level and decreasing land ice sheets continues to create apprehensions among the global communities. One of the primary reasons contributing to such situation is the purchase of high carbon products and services by the consumers. However, in recent years, global consumers have been placing greater focus on the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which are associated with responsible consumption and production as well as climate action. As such, producers and suppliers are motivated to accentuate on the production of goods and services that are environmentally friendly to cater to the increasing green purchase behaviour. Green purchase behaviour refers to the acquisition of products and services that are environmentally friendly, causing minimal damage to the ecosystem (Ritter et al., 2015). Keywords: Green Purchase Behaviour, Green Marketing, Green Products and Services, Students
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Davidescu, Adriana AnaMaria, Simona-Andreea Apostu, and Andreea Paul. "Exploring Citizens’ Actions in Mitigating Climate Change and Moving toward Urban Circular Economy. A Multilevel Approach." Energies 13, no. 18 (September 11, 2020): 4752. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en13184752.
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Urbanization and climate change are requiring cities to find novel pathways to a sustainable future, and therefore the urban context may accelerate the conversion to a circular economy. In this sense, climate change is a considerable threat to the environment, affecting both human and natural systems, and in this context individuals have a very important role. Therefore, the paper aims to investigate, on the one hand, what determines people to undertake specific actions in fighting climate change and, on the other hand, what determines some people to engage in adopting multiple actions exhibiting extra mitigation behaviour compared to others, paving the way to an urban circular economy. In order to do that, multilevel logistic regression analysis using hierarchical data (individuals grouped in counties), reflecting group variability and group-level characteristics effects on outcomes at individual level has been applied. Special attention was given to modernisation thesis validation, stipulating that citizens from more developed and modernized countries are expected to manifest a higher level of extra mitigation compared to inhabitants of less-modernized nations. The empirical results revealed the positive association of pro-environmental factors, socio-demographic and economic factors with both specific and extra mitigation behaviour in fighting climate change. An important finding of the empirical research highlighted the validation of the modernisation thesis, even if partially, and the reinforcement of the modernisation thesis impact on the extra mitigation behaviour determined by the urban area segmentation. The extra commitment behaviour reflected by citizens’ multiple actions in fighting climate change ensures progress to a circular economy through its contribution to waste reduction, eco-shopping increase, on eco-friendly transportation increase or domestic energy reduction. We believe that a shift in citizens’ attitude towards climate change is needed, taking into account that a lot must be done” to effectively respond to climate change, paving the way for the circular economy.
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Ravn Heerwagen, Lennart, Laura Mørch Andersen, Tove Christensen, and Peter Sandøe. "Can increased organic consumption mitigate climate changes?" British Food Journal 116, no. 8 (July 29, 2014): 1314–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/bfj-02-2013-0049.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the evidence for a positive correlation between increased consumption of organic products and potential climate change mitigation via decreased consumption of meat and it is discussed to what extent organic consumption is motivated by climate change concerns. Design/methodology/approach – A fixed effects model together with a factor analysis and ordinary least square are used to analyse household purchase data for 2,000 households in 2006-2010 combined with survey questionnaire data from 2008. Findings – A small but statistically significant correlation between increasing organic budget shares and decreasing meat budget shares is found. People include food-related behaviour such as the purchase of organic food and reduced meat consumption as ways to mitigate climate change. However, other behavioural modifications such as reduction of car usage and household heating are perceived as more important strategies. Research limitations/implications – Other food-related mitigation strategies could be investigated. The climate effect of different diets – and how to motivate consumers to pursue them – could be investigated. Individual as opposed to household data would supplement the analyses. Practical implications – Demand-side policies aiming at climate-friendly consumption could be a central factor in combating climate change. Already, food-related mitigation strategies such as lowered meat consumption are established practices among a group of organic consumers. As some consumers believe that climate change can be mitigated by consuming organic food, the authors propose that this is taken into account in the development of organic farming. Originality/value – The authors propose a shift from analysing the climate-friendliness of production to addressing the climate-friendliness of consumption using consumption of organic food as a case. The authors link stated concerns for climate changes with actual food-related behaviour.
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Et.al, Nurul Izzah Mat Gheni@Ghani. "Modelling the Relationship between the Environmental Factors and Environmental Behavioural Intentionamong University Students using a Partial Least Squares–Structural Equation Model (PLS-SEM)." Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education (TURCOMAT) 12, no. 3 (April 11, 2021): 2644–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.17762/turcomat.v12i3.1290.
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Currently, the world is facing an exceptionally alarming scale of environmental problems involving phenomena such as climate change, ozone layer depletion and global warming. The affected world urgently requires an immediate way out to counter these environmental problems. Evidences show that environmentalproblems occurrencesare mainly due to irresponsible human activities. As part of overcoming these problems, behavioural solutions areneeded to make individuals friendly to the environment. As university students ‘populationrepresents huge users of large environmental resources, universities can play a major role in endorsing environmentally friendly behavior in society through proper environmental education to their students. However, information on the students’ pro-environmental behaviour is lacking in local universities such as in UniversitiTeknologi MARA (UiTM). Recent studies have found pro-environmental behavior can be explained by many direct factors, however, indirect factors have received far less attention. This study aims to (1) determine specific Environmental Factors that may affect Environmental Behavioural Intention among UiTM students and to (2) determine the mediation effect of Environmental Attitude on the relationship between Environmental Factors and Environmental Behavioural Intention.These Environmental Factors and mediation factors are analyzed using Partial Least Square - Structural Equations Modelling (PLS-SEM). Self-administered questionnaires were distributed among a sample of 382 UiTM students, selected using Stratified random sampling. The results indicate that two significant factors directly affect Environmental Behavioural Intention i.e. Environmental Knowledge and Social Norms.This implies that students with environmental knowledge and are surrounded by pro-environmental persons tend to have responsible environmental behaviour. Meanwhile, another two other factors i.e. Environmental Concern and Perceived Risk were found to be indirectly influencing Environmental Behavioural Intention through the mediation of Environmental Attitude. The finding indicates that students who are concerned about the environment and aware of the environmental risk related will behave in a responsible environmental manner if and only if the students have a positive attitude. Overall, integrating both types of direct and indirect factors to explain pro-environmental behaviour gives abetter understanding of the student’s attitude and behaviour towards the environment.
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Guzmán Rincón, Alfredo, Ruby Lorena Carrillo Barbosa, Ester Martín-Caro Álamo, and Belén Rodríguez-Cánovas. "Sustainable Consumption Behaviour in Colombia: An Exploratory Analysis." Sustainability 13, no. 2 (January 15, 2021): 802. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13020802.
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Sustainable consumption has positioned itself as an alternative for economic growth and social development because of its ability to deal with the future scarcity of natural resources and the prevention and mitigation of climate change, among other things. In this sense, the role of the consumer is preponderant, due to the fact their consumption behaviour has a direct effect on the environment; hence the importance of analysing their habits from different perspectives and social realities. Accordingly, the aim of this work is to explore the low-impact sustainable consumption behaviour in Colombia and the convergence and divergence of this type of consumer behaviour in the country. To achieve this, an exploratory, quantitative, and transversal methodology was used. The latter was based on a sample of 393 consumers to whom a self-report scale was applied in order to evaluate behaviours linked to quality of life, care for the environment, and resources for future generations. With the data collected, the following step to follow was to identify how consumers are grouped (hierarchical cluster analysis), what the differences are (single-factor ANOVA), the behaviours (descriptive statistics), as well as the relationship among them (Pearson correlation statistics). Results show that there are two consumer profiles with different levels of awareness of sustainable consumption behaviour. The principal outcome of the study was that Colombian consumers have embraced the behaviour of quality of life and resources for future generations; however, those consumers related to environmental care have been less involved, especially due to the influence of economic variables as such the cost of products and speculation in the prices of environmentally friendly products.
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Essenfelder, Arthur H., Francesca Larosa, Paolo Mazzoli, Stefano Bagli, Davide Broccoli, Valerio Luzzi, Jaroslav Mysiak, Paola Mercogliano, and Francesco dalla Valle. "Smart Climate Hydropower Tool: A Machine-Learning Seasonal Forecasting Climate Service to Support Cost–Benefit Analysis of Reservoir Management." Atmosphere 11, no. 12 (December 1, 2020): 1305. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/atmos11121305.
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This study proposes a climate service named Smart Climate Hydropower Tool (SCHT) and designed as a hybrid forecast system for supporting decision-making in a context of hydropower production. SCHT is technically designed to make use of information from state-of-art seasonal forecasts provided by the Copernicus Climate Data Store (CDS) combined with a range of different machine learning algorithms to perform the seasonal forecast of the accumulated inflow discharges to the reservoir of hydropower plants. The machine learning algorithms considered include support vector regression, Gaussian processes, long short-term memory, non-linear autoregressive neural networks with exogenous inputs, and a deep-learning neural networks model. Each machine learning model is trained over past decades datasets of recorded data, and forecast performances are validated and evaluated using separate test sets with reference to the historical average of discharge values and simpler multiparametric regressions. Final results are presented to the users through a user-friendly web interface developed from a tied connection with end-users in an effective co-design process. Methods are tested for forecasting the accumulated seasonal river discharges up to six months in advance for two catchments in Colombia, South America. Results indicate that the machine learning algorithms that make use of a complex and/or recurrent architecture can better simulate the temporal dynamic behaviour of the accumulated river discharge inflow to both case study reservoirs, thus rendering SCHT a useful tool in providing information for water resource managers in better planning the allocation of water resources for different users and for hydropower plant managers when negotiating power purchase contracts in competitive energy markets.
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Borell, Eberhard, Michel Bonneau, Mirjam Holinger, Armelle Prunier, Volker Stefanski, Susanne Zöls, and Ulrike Weiler. "Welfare Aspects of Raising Entire Male Pigs and Immunocastrates." Animals 10, no. 11 (November 17, 2020): 2140. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani10112140.
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For a long time, scientists assumed that newborns have a severely limited sense of pain (if any). However, this assumption is wrong and led to a “start of the exit” from piglet surgical castration. Some of the currently discussed or already implemented alternatives such as general or local anaesthesia during surgical castration raise additional welfare concerns as well as legal problems and/or are hardly applicable. The favoured long-term, welfare-friendly “gold standard” is to raise entire male pigs (EM). However, this may also impose certain welfare problems under the current conventional housing and management conditions. The specific types of behaviour displayed by EM such as mounting and aggressive behaviours but also increased exploration, which are partially linked to sexual maturation, increase the risk for injuries. The current status of knowledge (scientific literature and farmer experiences) on housing of EM suggests that environmental enrichment, space, group-stability, social constellation, feeding (diet and feeder space), health and climate control are critical factors to be considered for future housing systems. From an animal welfare point of view, an intermediate variant to be favoured to reduce problematic behaviour could be to slaughter EM before reaching puberty or to immunize boars early on to suppress testicular function. Immunization against endogenous GnRH can reduce EM-specific problems after the 2nd vaccination.
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Trentinaglia De Daverio, Maria Teresa, Teresina Mancuso, Massimo Peri, and Lucia Baldi. "How Does Consumers’ Care for Origin Shape Their Behavioural Gap for Environmentally Friendly Products?" Sustainability 13, no. 1 (December 28, 2020): 190. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13010190.
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Climate change is threatening worldwide crop yields and varieties, and the desertification of Southern Europe and Mediterranean areas is endangering the cultivation of tomato, not only one of the most important cultivated crops, but also one of the main pillars of the global food industry. To minimize its environmental impact, current research efforts in Europe are selecting resilient tomato genotypes with reduced use of water and fertilizers. Still, its commercial acceptance depends on consumers’ reaction in terms of interests, attitudes, and willingness to buy and pay for this hypothetical resilient tomato. In our setting, a behavioural gap exists whenever despite an interest for the product, and regardless of a positive attitude towards it, consumers are not willing to pay a premium price for this tomato. This paper focuses on Italians, among the largest tomato consumers across the world, and for whom origin emerges as a relevant consumption driver. We carried out a web-survey, totalling 932 responses. We ran three different ordinal regressions, one for each level of involvement in the purchasing process, identifying the factors affecting consumers’ interest, attitude, and behaviour towards this hypothetical tomato. We prove the existence of a behavioural gap for Italian tomato consumers and observe that this gap widens as consumers’ preferences for origin increase. Hence, policies developing environmentally sustainable products should not forget how consumer preferences for non-strictly environmental attributes might ultimately affect their propensity to buy and pay.
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Eldesouky, Ali, Francisco J. Mesias, and Miguel Escribano. "Consumer Assessment of Sustainability Traits in Meat Production. A Choice Experiment Study in Spain." Sustainability 12, no. 10 (May 17, 2020): 4093. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12104093.
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Consumers are increasingly concerned about the way their food is produced. This is particularly relevant in the case of meat, due to the impacts that its production methods can have on greenhouse gas emissions and its role in climate change. In relation to this issue, the purpose of our research is to obtain more information on the consumer decision-making process for beef, in order to determine the relative importance of sustainability claims and traditional attributes, and identify consumer profiles with similar perceptions and intentions. A choice experiment was used to assess the influence of these attributes on consumers’ purchasing decisions. The results reveal that the best purchase choice for the consumer would be organic beef, produced in Spain, with an animal welfare label and eco-labelled. Later on, a cluster analysis was carried out using consumer beliefs and attitudes towards meat consumption as inputs, together with purchasing behaviour variables. A solution was obtained with three well-defined consumer segments showing different preference patterns: Cluster 1 (Male millennials indifferent towards environment or sustainability), Cluster 2 (Sustainability-concerned mature women) and Cluster 3 (Middle-aged meat eaters with established families). The results of this study are relevant to develop more appropriate strategies that may be adapted to the behaviour and expectations of eco-friendly food consumers.
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Khuzaimah, Arissa Binti, Fareez Ahmad Taslim, Izza Farzana Zabri, Khoo Jia Jia, Kughan Rao Ganamoorthi, Low En Ling, Muhamad Akmal Abu Samah, et al. "Consumer Behaviour in Green Purchasing: A Case Study in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia." Malaysian Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (MJSSH) 5, no. 5 (May 17, 2020): 44–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.47405/mjssh.v5i5.403.
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Malaysia faces several environmental issues, such as rising sea levels, water pollution, air pollution, climate changes, acid rain and soil erosion for the past few years. It is important to save the environment because by doing so, it will not only attract more tourists from foreign countries to come for vacation in Malaysia, but it also encourages manufacturers and consumers to support green product. Therefore, Malaysia should allocate the use of green products in daily life. Still, there are marketers who face problems in identifying and specifying factors that influence consumers to go green, which are; price, knowledge, eco-label and social influences. The environmental problem as well as lack of literature research about green products purchasing intention and minor companies that are involved in green production are also one of the problems that lead to the difficulties of this allocation. This research aims to identify the relationship between price, knowledge, eco-label and social influences towards consumer green purchase intention in Petaling Jaya. A theoretical model was developed and tested using quantitative survey approach. The data collection which are designed in five Likert-scale were gained from random 150 respondents in Petaling Jaya based on non-probability sampling. The results indicate that the most significant relationship between consumer green purchase intention is price. While knowledge, eco-label and social influences play important role too in influencing consumer purchasing intention towards green product although they do not give the most significant relationship. It is concluded that price sensitivity is found to be relative and consumers are willing to buy green product if the price of the green product is the same as the other non-environmental-friendly product.
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Mensah, Gloria, and Wilson Kodwo McWilson. "The dynamics of households’ adoption behaviour of solar home systems (SHSS) in Ashongman Estate in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana." Ghana Journal of Geography 13, no. 1 (May 19, 2021): 235–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/gjg.v13i1.12.
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Ghana heavily relies on hydrogenated and thermal electricity. For the past thirteen years, the dynamics of climate change and increasing fuel prices have engendered an electricity crisis since the supply of electricity cannot match the ever-burgeoning demand from households and industries. While this is so, the uptake of renewable energy sources has been abysmal in Ghana. This study thus seeks to assess the adoption behaviour of solar home systems, an environmentally friendly and convenient alternative electricity source by households in Ashongman Estate, a suburb of Accra, Ghana. Using a mixed research approach including binary logistic regression analysis, the study found that education, income levels, the performance expectation and housing tenure arrangements were crucial factors that determine the willingness of households to adopt the solar energy sources. We recommend that to encourage the uptake of Solar Home Systems (SHSs) which are environmentally sustainable, it is expedient that government collaborates with relevant stakeholders to provide solar home systems (SHSs)for households with the necessary technical capacity while putting financial policy measures in place to ensure their affordability regardless of socio-economic status. In addition, we recommend further studies to explore the role of incentives in solar home systems adoption to inform policies that will encourage their uptake.
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VALDEZ, RENE X., M. NILS PETERSON, and KATHRYN T. STEVENSON. "How communication with teachers, family and friends contributes to predicting climate change behaviour among adolescents." Environmental Conservation 45, no. 2 (October 16, 2017): 183–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0376892917000443.
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SUMMARYEngaging adolescents is critical to encouraging future climate change adaptation and mitigation behaviours. Adolescents are typically more receptive to climate change messages than adults, but educators and communicators need research-based strategies for optimizing engagement, including information about what factors are most influential in changing behaviours. To better understand how communication with teachers, friends and family, climate change knowledge and climate change concern predict climate change behaviour, we administered a survey to a random sample of middle school students in North Carolina, USA (n = 1371). We measured climate change behaviour with a multi-item scale asking respondents about energy conservation, alternative transportation and engagement with environmental issues. We found that climate change concern and discussing climate change with family and friends predicted climate change behaviour. We also found that students from urban, high socioeconomic status schools were more likely to engage in climate change behaviour than students in urban, low socioeconomic status schools or rural schools. These results suggest that education efforts should leverage communication with family and friends in programming designed to encourage climate change behaviour. Further, efforts to promote climate change behaviour among low socioeconomic status urban and rural adolescents may be warranted, but would benefit from further investigation into the ideological, physical and knowledge-based drivers of behaviour differences documented in this study.
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WILLEMOES, MIKKEL, ANDERS P. TØTTRUP, MATHILDE LERCHE-JØRGENSEN, ERIK MANDRUP JACOBSEN, ANDREW HART REEVE, and KASPER THORUP. "Spatial behaviour and density of three species of long-distance migrants wintering in a disturbed and non-disturbed woodland in northern Ghana." Bird Conservation International 28, no. 1 (July 24, 2017): 59–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959270917000132.
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SummaryChanges in land-use and climate are threatening migratory animals worldwide. In birds, declines have been widely documented in long-distance migrants. However, reasons remain poorly understood due to a lack of basic information regarding migratory birds’ ecology in their non-breeding areas and the effects of current environmental pressures there. We studied bird densities, spatial and territorial behaviour and habitat preference in two different habitat types in northern Ghana, West Africa. We study three common Eurasian-African songbirds (Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus, Melodious Warbler Hippolais polyglotta and Pied Flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca) in a forested site, heavily disturbed by agricultural activities, and a forest reserve with no agriculture. The three species differed in non-breeding spatial strategies, with Willow Warblers having larger home ranges and being non-territorial. Home ranges (kernel density) of the three species were on average 1.5–4 times larger in the disturbed site than in the undisturbed site. Much of the birds’ tree species selection was explained by their preference for tall trees, but all species favoured trees of the genus Acacia. The overall larger home ranges in the disturbed site were presumably caused by the lower density of tall trees. Density of Pied Flycatchers was 24% lower in disturbed habitat (not significantly different from undisturbed) but Willow Warbler density in the disturbed habitat was more than 2.5 times the density in undisturbed. This suggests that the disturbed habitat was less suitable for Pied Flycatcher but not for Willow Warbler. This difference is possibly related to differences in tree species preferences and suggests that at least for some species, presence of preferred tree species is more important than overall tree abundance. Such information is crucial for predicting consequences of habitat changes on larger scales and population levels, as well as for planning potentially migrant-friendly farming practices.
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Groshong, Lisa, Sonja Wilhelm Stanis, Mark Morgan, and Christine Jie Li. "Place Attachment, Climate Friendly Behavior, and Support for Climate Friendly Management Action among State Park Visitors." Environmental Management 65, no. 1 (November 25, 2019): 98–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00267-019-01229-9.
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Viitala, Riitta, Jussi Tanskanen, and Risto Säntti. "The connection between organizational climate and well-being at work." International Journal of Organizational Analysis 23, no. 4 (October 12, 2015): 606–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijoa-10-2013-0716.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the connections between organizational climate and well-being at work. Design/methodology/approach – Connections between perceived organizational climate and well-being at work were studied through quantitative data gathered from 24 public day-care centers in Finland. Findings – The unit-level analyses revealed that different types of organizational climates were connected to different types of job well-being in the unit. Organizational climate types were differentially connected to stress and cynicism, but were not connected to work engagement. Employees in units where work climate was collectively evaluated as particularly weak reported significantly lower well-being than those in units with better work climate. The most positive climates – “relaxed and friendly” and “encouraging and supportive of new ideas” – seemed to be more strongly connected to well-being than negative climates. Originality/value – The study confirmed and clarified the link between organizational climate and job well-being and emphasized how different climate types have varying types of connection to well-being at work.
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Penz, Elfriede, and Eva Hofmann. "What Stirs Consumers to Purchase Carbon-Friendly Food? Investigating the Motivational and Emotional Aspects in Three Studies." Sustainability 13, no. 15 (July 27, 2021): 8377. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13158377.
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As part of diminishing climate change, food consumption needs to be addressed to reduce greenhouse gases. In order to change food consumption habits to carbon-friendly eating patterns, consumers may be targeted by information campaigns and legal regulation. The current paper studies consumers’ diets and food purchase behavior. In particular, it aims to understand consumers’ motivational and emotional aspects that influence their behavior. Study 1, an interview study, aims to understand the development of and motivations for climate-friendly nutrition. Identifying eco-friendly motives also revealed that emotions seem to play an important role in nutrition and the purchase of climate-friendly products. Study 2 aims at identifying consumers’ positive and negative emotions when it comes to consuming carbon-friendly food. Again, qualitative interviews revealed a variety of positive and negative emotions. Study 3 quantitatively tested the theory of planned behavior, including positive and negative emotions and predicted carbon-friendly food purchases. The results show that attitudes, perceived behavioral control and positive emotions predict carbon-friendly food purchases. Derived from these findings, recommendations for information campaigns and legislation to foster carbon-friendly food purchases are presented.
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Ruban, Dmitry A., and Natalia N. Yashalova. "Climate-Friendly Ethics Prescribed by Top World Airlines: Empirical Evidence." Climate 8, no. 10 (October 19, 2020): 119. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cli8100119.
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The aviation industry contributes substantially to the global climate change, and, thus, airline companies need development of climate-friendly ethics. The content of the codes of conduct of 16 airline companies boasting either the greatest number of daily departures or the largest air fleet (or both) are analyzed. It is established that 25% of these companies prescribe climate-friendly behavior often focusing on emissions. Moreover, many other companies prescribe pro-environmental behavior. The situation seems to be promising, although improvements of the existing corporate ethical prescriptions are necessary. Despite its tentative character and certain limitations, this study permits putting the climate-friendly ethics of airlines on the international agenda. Practically, it is important to add climate-related notions to those codes of conduct where these do not exist and to use successful examples as ethical templates for the entire aviation industry.
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Purwanto, Edi. "MERANCANG ULANG KOTA: LANGKAH ADAPTASI DALAM MENCIPTAKAN KOTA BERKELANJUTAN." Jurnal Arsitektur KOMPOSISI 10, no. 1 (May 1, 2017): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.24002/jars.v10i1.1040.
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Abstract: Currently, urban architecture is frequently referred to as one of main contributors for the occurrence of global warming. Global warming issue is getting more popular in which high-rise buildings in cities becomes one of the causes as they produce 68% of total CO2 emission gas on the earth. The emission of green house gasses in the year of 1970-2004 increased by 70%, global temperature increased by 0.72% in ten decades, and since 1961 the sea surface topography has increased by 0.175 cm/year. In other words, urban architecture greatly contributes in increasing micro climate, particularly city climate. The micro climate is caused by the heat emitted by buildings and roads, and building equipments using electrical energy. The finishing of architectural design in cities by using heat emitting materials tends to be environmentally unfriendly. The design has a potency to create climate disorder. The building mass, particularly high-rise buildings in the city area, is designed independently. Consequently, it reflects heat among building mass one another, and it disrupts shadowing system. Global warming effect is still neglected by architects. They still believe in the superiority of architectural design in technological context and anti-natural. The issues of global warming effect seem to be the central issues to be considered by architects and city designers on how important urban architectural design, which is environmentally friendly, in creating an environmentally responsive city. In addition, the effects of global climate change have to be redefined in the design criteria of urban architectural buildings. The result of this study shows that redesigning urban architecture has to consider some factors, such as technical finishing design using recent technology, people behaviour, and related regulations.Keywords: redesign, adaptation, sustainableAbstrak: Selama ini, arsitektur perkotaan seringkali dianggap sebagai salah satu penyumbang utama terjadinya pemanasan global (“global warming"). Isu pemanasan global menjadi semakin popular, di mana gedung bertingkat di perkotaan menjadi salah satu penyebabnya karena telah menghasilkan 68% total gas emisi gas CO2di bumi. Emisi gas rumah kaca pada tahun 1970-2004 mengalami peningkatan sebanyak 70%, suhu global naik 0,72% dalam sepuluh dasawarsa, dan sejak tahun 1961 permukaan laut naik 0,175 cm/tahun. Dengan kata lain, arsitektur perkotaan memberikan sumbangan besar terhadap naiknya iklim mikro, terutama iklim di perkotaan. Kenaikan iklim mikro tersebut diakibatkan oleh panas yang dipancarkan oleh bangunan dan jalan serta kelengkapan bangunan yang menggunakan energi listrik. Penyelesaian desain arsitektur di perkotaan dengan menggunakan material yang memantulkan panas cenderung tidak ramah lingkungan. Desain tersebut berpotensi menciptakan kekacauan iklim. Massa bangunan, terutama bangunan tinggi di kawasan perkotaan, dirancang tanpa memperhatikan konteks lingkungan, akibatnya terjadi efek saling memantulkan panas antar massa bangunan, serta mengacaukan sistem pembayangan. Dampak pemanasan gobal masih kurang diperhatikan oleh para arsitek, mereka masih percaya pada keunggulan desain arsitektur yang berbasis teknologi dan anti natural. Kiranya isu dampak pemanasan global menjadi isu utama yang layak diperhatikan oleh para arsitek dan perancang kota mengenai betapa pentingnya desain arsitektur perkotaan yang ramah lingkungan dalam mewujudkan kota yang tanggap lingkungan. Dampak perubahan iklim global perlu dipertimbangkan sebagai kriteria desain bangunan arsitektur perkotaan. Hasil dari pembahasan ini menunjukkan bahwa merancang ulang arsitektur perkotaan sebagai langkah adaptasi menuju kota yang tanggap lingkungan perlu memperhatikan beberapa faktor, yaitu faktor penyelesaian desain secara teknis dengan teknologi terkini, perilaku masyarakat, dan peraturan yang mengikat.Kata kunci : redesain, adaptasi, berkelanjutan
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Griesoph, Amelie, Stefan Hoffmann, Christine Merk, Katrin Rehdanz, and Ulrich Schmidt. "Guess What …?—How Guessed Norms Nudge Climate-Friendly Food Choices in Real-Life Settings." Sustainability 13, no. 15 (August 3, 2021): 8669. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13158669.
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Social norms, also called social comparison nudges, have been shown to be particularly effective in promoting healthy food choices and environmentally friendly behaviors. However, there is limited evidence on the effectiveness of these nudges for promoting sustainable and climate-friendly food choices and their potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and support the related SDGs. The paper reports a field experiment that tests the effectiveness of two social norms in a real-life setting based on revealed preferences. The study distinguishes between the widely researched descriptive norms and guessed norms, the latter being tested in this context for the first time. While descriptive norms communicate typical patterns of behavior (e.g., 50% of canteen visitors choose vegetarian meals), guessed norms are determined by the individual’s best guess about the norm in a specific context. The results confirm a remarkable nudging effect of guessed norms: The higher the presumed proportion of vegetarian dishes sold, the lower the probability of choosing a vegetarian dish. Surprisingly, this effect is independent of the respective norm specification (meat or vegetarian norm). The paper provides advice for policy makers about when and how to use guessed norms.
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Snider, Anthony, Shanhong Luo, Theresa Schell, and Jeffery Hill. "Comparing Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors between an Indigenous and a Non-indigenous Sample from New Zealand and the United States of America." Environmental Management and Sustainable Development 10, no. 1 (November 18, 2020): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/emsd.v10i1.17820.
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While there has been a substantial amount of literature published on environmental beliefs and behaviors, cross-cultural research in this area, particularly comparisons between indigenous vs. non-indigenous people, remains limited. The current study conducted a comparison of the environmental beliefs and behaviors, as well as political attitudes, between an indigenous and a non-indigenous sample of New Zealand and the US (total n=322). Respondents included students at the University of Waikato in New Zealand (Māori and European New Zealanders) and the University of North Carolina Pembroke in the US (Lumbees and non-indigenous Americans). The participants provided responses regarding their ecological worldview, belief in global climate change, and participation in environmentally responsible behaviors as well as their political attitudes, including system justification and political liberalism. Results showed that the New Zealand sample was more politically liberal and demonstrated more environmentally friendly beliefs and behaviors than the US sample. The indigenous group did not differ in their environmental beliefs or behaviors from their non-indigenous counterpart, but did endorse less system justification. Mediation analyses indicated that ecological worldview and belief in global climate change together fully mediated the link between political liberalism and environmentally responsible behavior. Implications of these findings for environmental behavior research and education are discussed.
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Hong, Jun Sung, Bee Ryou, Hsi-Sheng Wei, Paula Allen-Meares, and Dorothy L. Espelage. "Identifying protective factors that potentially buffer the association between peer victimization and weapon-carrying behavior among US adolescents." School Psychology International 40, no. 4 (April 25, 2019): 381–402. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0143034319843964.
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The aim of the present study was to explore whether protective factors, such as ease of communication with parents, siblings, and best friends; parental awareness of student’s friends and activities; higher numbers of best friends; positive perceptions of school climate; and teachers’ opinion of student’s academic performance, would buffer the link between peer victimization and weapon-carrying behavior among US adolescents. Data were derived from the 2009–2010 Health Behavior in School-Aged Children (HBSC) study in the US. A total of 12,642 US adolescents were included in the study sample. Analyses included descriptive statistics, bivariate correlations, and ordinary least squares regression. Partially supporting our hypothesis, we found that only mother’s awareness of students’ friends and activities ameliorated the effect of peer victimization on weapon-carrying behavior. In other words, bullied adolescents whose mothers were aware of their friends and activities were less likely to carry weapons. Mothers’ awareness of their child’s friends, behaviors, and activities is an important form of parental monitoring, and their involvement may protect their children from weapon-carrying behavior after experiencing victimization.
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McGuire, Laura, and Geoffrey Beattie. "Talking green and acting green are two different things: An experimental investigation of the relationship between implicit and explicit attitudes and low carbon consumer choice." Semiotica 2019, no. 227 (March 5, 2019): 99–125. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sem-2017-0138.
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AbstractOne major assumption in the climate change debate is that because respondents report positive attitudes to the environment and to low carbon lifestyles they will subsequently engage in environmentally friendly/low carbon behaviors when given the right guidance or information. Many governmental agencies have based their climate change strategy on this basic assumption, despite some anxiety about the value-action gap in psychology more generally. Here we test this assumption. We investigated the relationship between explicit and implicit attitudes to carbon footprint, and both self-reports of environmental behavior and low carbon behavioral choices. We found that self-reported attitudes to carbon footprint were significantly associated only with self-reported environmental and self-reported low-carbon behaviors. They were not significantly associated with the choice of low carbon alternatives in a simulated shopping task. Given that the vast majority of studies on attitudes and behavior in the environmental domain use self-report measures of behavior, this may mean that we are generating research findings that could be making policy makers overly complacent about our readiness for actual behavior change. Implicit attitudes were not significantly associated with either measure in terms of group comparisons, but those with a strong positive implicit attitude towards low carbon did choose more low carbon items, but only under time pressure. The opposite trend was found for explicit attitudes – this increased only when participants were not under time pressure. These results suggest that Kahneman’s hypothesis about contrasting systems of human cognition might be highly relevant to the domain of climate change and behavioral adaptation.
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Deisenrieder, Veronika, Susanne Kubisch, Lars Keller, and Johann Stötter. "Bridging the Action Gap by Democratizing Climate Change Education—The Case of k.i.d.Z.21 in the Context of Fridays for Future." Sustainability 12, no. 5 (February 26, 2020): 1748. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12051748.
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Formal schooling frequently lacks both democratic learning culture and effective climate change education (CCE). This study analyzes the effects of the participatory CCE initiative k.i.d.Z.21 and the impacts of the current Fridays For Future (FFF) climate protests on teenagers’ climate change awareness. The mixed-methods approach comprises online pre-and post-tests, and personal interviews with selected students. k.i.d.Z.21 follows moderate constructivist, inquiry-based learning approaches and addresses 14-year old students from secondary schools in Austria and southern Germany. Considering the effectiveness of the CCE intervention of school year 2018/2019 (N = 169), quantitative findings reveal an increased mean of major components of climate change awareness, including climate-friendly behavior. When separating participants and non-participants in Fridays For Future, personal concern and refusing meat have both increased significantly only among protest participants. A closer examination of this group identifies an enhanced feeling of self-efficacy that might be triggered by perceived collective efficacy. Besides, more climate-friendly consumption behavior, as well as enhanced multiplicative action, are detected. The interviewed students also clearly assigned increased action-related components of climate change awareness to the attendance of FFF. From the findings, we conclude that democratic learning in and out of school can enhance action-related components of climate change awareness, and a combination of both can have an even stronger effect.
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Bassen, Alexander, Katrin Gödker, Florian Lüdeke-Freund, and Josua Oll. "Climate Information in Retail Investors’ Decision-Making: Evidence From a Choice Experiment." Organization & Environment 32, no. 1 (April 27, 2018): 62–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1086026618771669.
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Financial markets play a decisive role in the transition to a low-carbon economy. This study investigates the role of climate information presentation for climate-friendly investing among retail investors. We conduct a choice experiment in which we vary the presentation format of climate information by means of three label designs to test their influence on investment practices. We provide empirical evidence for the effectiveness of climate labeling as a potential nudge for climate-friendly investing. Furthermore, we find heterogeneity in the influence of climate information across different label designs and cognitive characteristics of investors. Intuitive (reflective) decision makers tend to place significantly more (less) weight on funds’ climate performance compared with financial performance—irrespective of a participant’s environmental preference.
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SUNARJO, Wenti Ayu, Vigory Gloriman MANALU, and Wiwiek Rabiatul ADAWIYAH. "NURTURING CONSUMERS‘ GREEN PURCHASE INTENTION ON NATURAL DYES BATIK DURING CRAFT SHOPPING TOUR IN THE BATIK CITY OF PEKALONGAN INDONESIA." GeoJournal of Tourism and Geosites 34, no. 1 (March 31, 2021): 186–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.30892/gtg.34124-635.
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Demand on eco-friendly products is burgeoning, as a form adaptation to climate change mitigation strategy. Hence, environmental issues are still considered as an emerging topic that concerns the tourism sector. Planned Behavior Theory (TPB) describes the formation of environmentally friendly behavior intentions in green purchase intentions of natural batik dyes. Data were obtained from 200 visitors who ever purchased natural dyed batik during their craft shopping tours to the city of Batik, Pekalongan Indonesia. The data were further analyzed using the structural equation modeling (SEM) approach. The initial model's calculation results reveal that green subjective norm has no significant relationship on green purchase intention. Furthermore, green product knowledge and attitude positively impact green purse intention of batik products made from natural ingredients. The results showed that INELOC does not moderate the relationship between attitude (ATT) on green purchase intention. Craft shopping tour is becoming popular choice of sightseeing bundling offered by travel agents. Besides its positive value, increasing demand on the handicraft shopping also has a negative consequence on the environment. The destruction occurs as a result of rapid growth in consumption, hence, purchasing environmentally friendly products can be a way to minimize the climate change and balancing the ecosystems. Demand on eco-friendly products is burgeoning, as a form adaptation to climate change mitigation strategy. Realizing that the river pollution can endanger people's health, MSMEs have started producing batik with natural dyes. Although the number of MSMEs that produce natural dyed batik products is not high, the Pekalongan City Government is continually socialize the importance of reducing chemical waste and river pollution. These findings have important implications for marketers and policymakers of natural dye batik.
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Oliphant, Zachary, Chae M. Jaynes, and Richard K. Moule Jr. "Social Preferences and Environmental Behavior: A Comparison of Self-Reported and Observed Behaviors." Sustainability 12, no. 15 (July 27, 2020): 6023. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12156023.
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Faced with the depletion of natural resources and climate change, individuals making the choice to behave in a more environmentally conscious way is increasingly necessary. Rational choice theory suggests that individuals will only behave in pro-environmental ways if they perceive those actions to align with their own self-interests. Others, however, have highlighted instances where individuals act pro-socially or altruistically, deviating from their own self-interests for the benefit of others. The present study examines whether individuals’ social preferences are associated with engagement in pro-environmental behaviors. Specifically, drawing on a methodology from behavioral economics, we use dictator and ultimatum game behavior to measure social preferences, and we then evaluate whether heterogeneity in social preferences is associated with self-reported pro-environmental behaviors and observed recycling behavior. The results indicate that individual differences in social preferences have a modest association with self-reported pro-environmental behaviors but no association with observed recycling behavior. Self-reported pro-environmental behavior was not associated with observed recycling behavior. We also find that recycling bin proximity to classroom doors increased participation in recycling. This finding demonstrates that individuals are receptive to the proximate opportunity to recycle. This suggests increasing the ease with which people can engage in pro-environmental behaviors, such as recycling, will promote participation in these practices. Overall, our research indicates that social preferences do not seem to drive individuals to act in environmentally friendly ways. This work also provides new opportunities for future research to integrate economic games into the study of pro-environmental behaviors.
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Huang, Yitian. "Multi-Level Governance: Explaining the “climate-focused” behavior of Chinese exporting companies." Public Policy and Administration 34, no. 2 (June 12, 2018): 165–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0952076718766722.
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While being increasingly aware of the importance of adopting climate-friendly business strategies, Chinese exporting companies have been active in taking “climate-related” actions but moderate in taking “climate-focused” actions. This article presents a preliminary attempt to apply Multi-Level Governance theories to explain the behavior of Chinese exporting companies toward climate change mitigation. It argues that the convergence of state-centered climate politics and market-oriented climate governance, which has a multi-level feature, has shaped the “climate-focused” behavior of Chinese exporting companies. Specifically, nation-states, multinational enterprises, and non-governmental organizations have contributed in the following ways: (1) at the global level, nation-states co-established and interpreted international norms, which generally justify the stance of the Chinese government, have been an indirect source of influence; (2) at the national level, the Chinese government has been the most influential actor, which has put emphasis on energy-saving when interpreting and operationalizing international norms; (3) at the industrial level, multinational enterprises and international non-governmental organizations have been influential contributors by playing a proactive role in launching and running low-carbon initiatives; and (4) transnational public–private partnerships launched in China and some developed countries have offered limited momentum.
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Yoon, Jee In, Gerard T. Kyle, Carena J. van Riper, and Stephen G. Sutton. "Testing the Effects of Constraints on Climate Change–Friendly Behavior among Groups of Australian Residents." Coastal Management 41, no. 6 (November 2, 2013): 457–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08920753.2013.841354.
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Molchanova, Tatyana K., Natalia N. Yashalova, and Dmitry A. Ruban. "Environmental Concerns of Russian Businesses: Top Company Missions and Climate Change Agenda." Climate 8, no. 4 (April 13, 2020): 56. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cli8040056.
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Climate change is on the national agenda of Russia due to this country’s contribution to greenhouse gas emissions and the expected degree of warming and precipitation increase in its territory. A content analysis of the mission statements of the 100 biggest Russian companies shows that 18.5% of them deal with environmental issues. About half of the companies that declare pro-environmental behavior belong to the energy production and transmission industry. It also is found that more than 30% of all leading hydrocarbon, chemical, and mining companies express environmental concerns in their mission statements. The main environmental priorities declared by the top Russian companies include caring for nature, production ecologization, energy efficiency, and ecological standards. These priorities are related to climate-friendly behavior, but the latter is not stated directly. Direct consideration of climate change in the mission statements of Russian companies is recommended.
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Sia, Surendra Kumar, and Alphonsa Jose. "Attitude and subjective norm as personal moral obligation mediated predictors of intention to build eco-friendly house." Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal 30, no. 4 (June 10, 2019): 678–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/meq-02-2019-0038.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to combine the theory of planned behavior variables with norm activation model to predict the behavioral intention to build eco-friendly houses among adult house owners of Kerala. It was hypothesized that the moral obligation will mediate the relationship of both attitude and subjective norm toward the intention to build eco-friendly houses. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from 269 adult house owners from Kerala with the help of structured questionnaires. Attitude toward eco-friendly houses was measured using semantic differential scale, subjective norm was measured using items adapted from Ajzen and Jansson and Dorrepaal, personal norm was measured using 7 items adapted from Jansson and Dorrepaal and behavioral intention to build eco-friendly house was measured using 14-item measures which probed the various characteristics of eco-friendly buildings. Data were analyzed using mediation analysis with the help of PROCESS macro plug-in of IBM SPSS. Findings The study revealed that the relationship between subjective norm and behavioral intention to construct eco-friendly houses was fully mediated by personal norm, and the relationship between attitude and behavioral intention was partially mediated by personal norm. Research limitations/implications Eco-friendly houses or sustainable architecture is the requirement of the time. Psychology can play a major role in increasing the choice to opt an eco-friendly alternative. The present study tries to develop a green marketing strategy by understanding the influential psychological variables. The study points to the importance of personal moral obligation of the people in the choice of the eco-friendly houses. The study is limited in itself because it failed to consider any situational factors that may be influential in the intention to build an eco-friendly house. Originality/value Considering the immediacy and potency of global climate change and the role green architecture can play to reduce the impact of the blow, eco-friendly architecture is inevitable. Many psychological studies have been instrumental in shaping and changing individual behaviors. Considering these facts the present study aims to identify the role of psychological variables in determining the intention to build eco-friendly houses. This study will help in identifying the relevant personal variables that can promote eco-friendly construction.
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Alavi, Hamid Reza, and Ramazan Jahandari. "The Organizational Climate of Kerman Shahid Bahonar University." Public Personnel Management 34, no. 3 (September 2005): 247–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009102600503400303.
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The aim of this research is to survey the organizational climate of Kerman Shahid Bahonar University and compare it with the desired organizational climate from the point of view of the university staff. The questions of the research are: Is the relationship among the staff friendly? Does the staff perform their delegated duties with high spirit? Are the conditions in a way not to disturb the staff and not to make problems? Is the managers' behavior with the staff supportive and friendly? Is the staff interested in their occupations? Do managers and staff behave formally with each other? Is the managers' work method taken as good examples? Do the managers direct the staff ignoring the staffs' ideas? The statistical samples that were chosen randomly include 262 employees out of 820 employed staff of Shahid Bahonar University. In order to get research aims, information and data were gathered using the Survey Research method and through the descriptive organizational climate questionnaire. However, only 218 questionnaires were applicable. For analyzing the data, descriptive and inferential statistics tables, T-Test, ANOVA, and Wilcoxon were used. The results show that organizational climate of Shahid Bahonar University is similar to the closed System of Andrew W. Halpin and Don B. Croft, two scholars in organizational climate who were of those who designed a questionnaire regarding the organizational climate, and is far behind the desired organizational climate of the staff.
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Park, Myungeun, and Soye You. "A Study of Consumer Characteristics and Climate-friendly Food Consumption Behavior Classified by Food-Related Lifestyle." Korean Journal of Community Living Science 27, no. 3 (August 31, 2016): 351–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.7856/kjcls.2016.27.3.351.
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Buttigieg, Karen, and Paul Pace. "Positive Youth Action Towards Climate Change." Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability 15, no. 1 (June 1, 2013): 15–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jtes-2013-0002.
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Abstract This study focuses on the experiences of young people who are leaders of change in the environmental field. This study views environmental activism as a personal commitment towards pro-environmental behaviour. The motivations and challenges of such work are viewed as important to learn more not only about volunteering in environmental organisations, but also about pro-environmental behaviour. The main research problem was to explore these individualsí present and past life experiences, in the light of their activism, towards the issue of climate change. Narrative inquiry was chosen as a methodology for this research as it gives importance to experience and facilitates the study of an issue in all of its wholeness and complexity. The research involved in-depth interviews with three participants as well as living alongside the participants in an effort to build a relationship with them and to experience being an environmental activist. The participants were members of a local environmental organisation ñ Friends of the Earth (Malta). The outcomes of this study provide an opportunity for reflection on the factors that affect pro-environmental attitudes and behaviour and their implications on environmental education. This reflection will enable informed efforts to engage more young people in environmental activism. From the narratives produced, it is clear that there is no single factor that is optimal for promoting pro-environmental behaviour and environmental activism. These are, in fact, determined by a combination of interrelated factors.
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Kröske, Björn. "Prediction Model for Alcohol Consumption in Young Football Players in Germany." Zeitschrift für Gesundheitspsychologie 24, no. 4 (October 2016): 180–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1026/0943-8149/a000168.
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Abstract. Alcohol consumption among adolescents is higher in athletes, especially in team sports such as football, compared with nonathletes. This study investigated factors influencing alcohol consumption in adolescent football players in Germany. Structural equation modeling was used to understand how the different predictors work together, thereby improving alcohol prevention in the field of football. The hypothesized model was largely confirmed and the most significant predictive factor of alcohol consumption was the drinking behavior of friends. Alcohol expectancies and drinking refusal self-efficacy (DRSE) were also shown to impact alcohol use. Friend norms regarding alcohol use had little influence on alcohol consumption. There was no direct association between alcohol consumption and the motivational climate during football training (task and competitive orientation) and support provided by the coach. This highlights the importance of focusing on adjusting the perception of alcohol use in friends and alcohol use norms as well as social self-efficacy in resisting peer pressure to drink in alcohol prevention strategies in team sport.
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Dal, Burçkin, Umut Alper, Yasemin Özdem-Yilmaz, Nilay Öztürk, and Duygu Sönmez. "A model for pre-service teachers' climate change awareness and willingness to act for pro-climate change friendly behavior: adaptation of awareness to climate change questionnaire." International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education 24, no. 3 (April 28, 2015): 184–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10382046.2015.1034456.
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Chayes, Antonia. "How American Treaty Behavior Threatens National Security." International Security 33, no. 1 (July 2008): 45–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/isec.2008.33.1.45.
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In recent years, American treaty behavior has produced growing concern among both allies and less friendly nations. On such fundamental issues as nuclear proliferation, terrorism, human rights, civil liberties, environmental disasters, and commerce, the United States has generated confusion and anger abroad. Such a climate is not conducive to needed cooperation in the conduct of foreign and security policy. Among U.S. actions that have caused concern are the failure to ratify several treaties; the attachment of reservations, understandings, and declarations before ratification; the failure to support a treaty regime once ratified; and treaty withdrawal. The structural and historical reasons for American treaty behavior are deeply rooted in the United States' system of government and do not merely reflect superpower arrogance.
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Dermawan, Rizky, and Wiwik Handayani. "FACTORS TRIGGERING ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOR, FAILURE AND SUCCESS: A CASE STUDY OF A HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION." Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews 7, no. 1 (April 15, 2019): 156–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.18510/hssr.2019.7119.
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Purpose of Study: In today's digital era, every individual is claimed must be able to create and innovate in order to be able to thrive in the future so that the resilience of the company will be strengthened. Currently higher education institution is in need of change in order to maintain the survival and development within the competitive world. Organizational citizenship behavior, is a role that exceed the basic obligations undertaken by an employee. This research aims to reveal the influence of transformational leadership, organizational climate, work motivation, and job satisfaction towards Organizational citizenship behavior.
Methodology: Data was retrieved via survey method using questionnairesmethod of data collection. The population of the present srudy is thelecturers of Pembangunan Nasional "Veteran" University of East Java. Purposive sampling method has been used, with approximately 187 lecturers already working for more than 5 years. Hypothesis testing are conducted using Partial Least Square analysis (PLS).
Main Findings:The results exhibited thattwo hypotheses were accepted and two other hypotheses were rejected. Organizational climate and job satisfaction have an influence on Organizational citizenship behavior, while transformational leadership and work motivation have no effect toward Organizational citizenship behavior.
Implications/ Applications: The results provide a guidance for the reasons for success and failure of OCB. The success of OCB is characterized by an organizational climate that is able to improve performance and provide job satisfaction. Whereas the failure of OCB implementation was caused by transformational leadership who were unable to change behavior and motivated lecturers to voluntarily help friends in doing their jobs.Based on the findings, it is suitable to emphasise the need for improving workplace climate as well as job satisfaction. Employers that would like to retain talented academics in their academic institutions should not be concerned about leadership quality and work motivation which has no impact on the citizenship behaviour. The insights are particularly useful in the case of Indonesia trying to develop its national education system to be on par with more developed economies and produce graduates who are employable on a global scale.
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Ormond, Jim. "Geoengineering super low carbon cows: food and the corporate carbon economy in a low carbon world." Climatic Change 163, no. 1 (July 13, 2020): 135–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10584-020-02766-7.
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AbstractThe tangible progress to address climatic change remains painfully slow. As a result, practices to deliberately manipulate the Earth’s carbon and energy cycles to counteract climate change have gained traction and they are increasingly incorporated into mainstream debate. This paper examines one of the less documented examples of climate geoengineering, namely the creation of ‘super low carbon cows’. Driven by the public’s desire for a low carbon pint of milk or beef burger, I show how a combination of bioengineering, technological fixes and management practices have resulted in, and are informing, everyday changes to the way in which animals are bred, cared for and eaten—and in turn, how it affects the food that we consume. Thus, the role of the cow within the Anthropocene now extends from meat machine and sentient being to climate change saviour. I seek to show that super low carbon cows represent part of a wider climate ‘responsibilisation’ in which business interests and corporate storytelling are governing and enacting everyday mundane practices of climate engineering as part of the corporate carbon economy. Yet, as with other climate ‘fixes’, this paper shows that the super low carbon cow provides, at best, an imperfect correction. Critical gaps in the evidence of the efficiency of the solutions being advanced remain whilst manipulating an animal to be more climate friendly evokes unease when considering the wider sustainability and ethical impacts. Perhaps most critically, reliance on climate engineering to provide cheap and easy ways to control our climate fails to question, far less address, the ever-increasing demand, production and wastage of food. It also potentially undermines the already weak political will for other essential and more radical responses to climate change. In doing so, I contrast the extensive efforts to change the everyday behaviours of a cow with the limited attempts to meaningfully challenge the everyday practices, consumption lifestyles and dietary choices of the general public.
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Ruohomäki, Timo, Andreas Andra, and Kimmo Raivio. "Defining Data-Driven Analytical Methods on Improving Energy-Efficiency in Apartment Buildings." Engineering Proceedings 2, no. 1 (November 14, 2020): 68. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ecsa-7-08209.
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Energy efficiency is one of the key characteristics of smart cities and data-driven analytical methods, especially including Internet of Things (IoT) sensors, and meaningful indicators are provided to support initiatives but also changing behavior at the citizen level. The analysis is often undertaken in closed systems that contain sensors, data acquisition, analysis and visualization. To improve the effectiveness of energy-efficiency initiatives in climate programs, harmonization of analytical methods and quality assurance of the data are required. This paper provides an overview of these themes based on the findings from two European Union (EU)-funded projects, European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) 6Aika Climate Friendly Housing Companies and Horizon 2020 mySMARTLife.
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Muljono, Wiryanta, Sri Setiyawati, and Budhi Haryanto. "Technological Determinism in Patterns of Communication and Social Behavior Change in Indonesian Society." Asian Social Science 13, no. 2 (January 19, 2017): 21. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ass.v13n2p21.
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This article discusses the penetration of communication technologies in communication and social behavior patterns of rural and urban communities. The Internet was not able to erode the sense of nationalism and replace it with global values. This study also illustrates the effective communication with family, neighbors, or friends through social media in both urban and rural. An analysis shows that the internet does not affect prosocial attitudes, in traditional, moderate, and modern societies in urban and rural communities. Furthermore, face to face communication is still reliable when communicating within the family. Communication technology helps to communicate outside the family, such as a neighbor or friend. It is also suggested social media less capable of enabling a fully functioning society. matic investment risk. The authors propose an original non-traditional approach to the solution of two interrelated problems: investment climate diagnostics and investment risk level evaluation. The technique can be applied by both an investor for making an investment decision and an issuer for analyzing reasons of the low investment object attractiveness. It makes it possible to identify the barrier and restrictive factors determining a high risks and to develop measures to reduce them. The advanced algorithm, step-by-step methodology, and decision support system for assessing investment climate and unsystematic investment risk were described and formalized in the paper. Scientific and practical significance lies in the fact that the complex analysis and evaluation method proposed allows management decisions to be argued. the author’s technique will significantly reduce the role of the subjective factor caused by expert evaluation and uncertainty factors, improve the validity and reliability of the investment climate and risk assessments, and help to make an adequate decision about risk elimination.
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Amel, Elise, and Christie Manning. "Fostering collective effort toward ecosystem conservation." E3S Web of Conferences 119 (2019): 00006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/201911900006.
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For human society to thrive amidst our changing environmental realities, we must alter our behavior. Individual change, while important, is unreliable due to cognitive and social barriers. An important nexus for the required transformation is at the collective level. Rather than encouraging individuals to engage in personal climate-friendly behavior, our efforts must focus on individuals changing their social networks, engaging in political change, and transforming the organizations in their community, such as corporations, NGOs, boards, and governments. Formal and informal leaders make daily decisions which influence the organizational structures that propel large-scale human behavior change. This scale of change is more in line with the scope needed to successfully persist into the future on this planet.
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Matasci, Cecilia, Marcel Gauch, Heinz Böni, and Patrick Wäger. "The Influence of Consumer Behavior on Climate Change: The Case of Switzerland." Sustainability 13, no. 5 (March 9, 2021): 2966. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13052966.
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Reducing material flows and their associated environmental impacts substantially contributes to moving toward a more sustainable society. Both individual consumption behavior and governmental regulations play a crucial role in reaching sustainability goals. In this article, we present a Material Flow Analysis combined with a simplified Life Cycle Assessment of the Swiss economy. Results were linked to an analysis of consumption patterns. This allowed us to evaluate the direct influence of consumer behavior on national greenhouse gas emissions using a consumption-based approach and the quantification of the range of these emissions from different lifestyles. We conclude that the consumer has a direct influence on slightly more than 50% of the greenhouse gas emissions generated by the Domestic Material Consumption. If everybody were to behave like the 20% of the population with the most climate-friendly behavior, emissions would decrease by merely 16%. Cooperation between stakeholders at all levels of society is therefore needed. This study provides a contribution to decreasing material and energy consumption and defining possible future pathways with the final aim to bring anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions down to zero in Switzerland.
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Welsch, Heinz. "How climate-friendly behavior relates to moral identity and identity-protective cognition: Evidence from the European social surveys." Ecological Economics 185 (July 2021): 107026. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107026.
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Han, Soo Jeoung, and Gary N. McLean. "Effects of family-supportive supervisor behaviors and organizational climate on employees." European Journal of Training and Development 44, no. 6/7 (June 29, 2020): 659–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ejtd-12-2019-0195.
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Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of family-supportive supervisor behaviors and organizational climate on employees’ work–family conflict, job satisfaction and turnover intentions. Design/methodology/approach To examine the causal relationship, the longitudinal panel data of the work, family and health study were used, using the data of 664 respondents who participated in surveys from all four time-points at two Fortune 500 information technology (IT) companies. Findings The results of the data analysis suggested that family-supportive supervisor behaviors have a minimal, but statistically significant, impact on work-to-family conflict and organizational work-family climate. Moreover, work-to-family conflict minimally mediated the relationship between family-supportive supervisor behaviors and employees’ turnover intentions. An organizational work-family climate had a small, but statistically significant, mediating effect between family-supportive supervisor behaviors and job satisfaction/turnover intentions. Practical implications This study has practical implications by noting that relying on only individual managers’ roles or training managers to be family-supportive may not be enough to improve family-oriented organizational culture, work–life balance and job-related outcomes. Originality/value Using a longitudinal mediation model, the authors examined the effects of family-supportive supervisor behaviors and how those behaviors impact other variables over time. Despite the expectation of such an impact, the authors found minimal effects among variables. This study is valuable because it can stimulate future research to advance the theoretical and practical understanding of family-supportive supervisor behaviors to help determine why the study found that it had very little impact on both work–family conflict and a family-friendly organizational climate to increase employees’ satisfaction to continue to work.
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Ojala, Maria, and Hans Bengtsson. "Young People’s Coping Strategies Concerning Climate Change: Relations to Perceived Communication With Parents and Friends and Proenvironmental Behavior." Environment and Behavior 51, no. 8 (March 20, 2018): 907–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0013916518763894.
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Taking its departure in the transactional theory of coping and socialization theories, this questionnaire study investigates how coping with climate change among late adolescents ( N = 705) relates to proenvironmental behavior and communication with significant others about societal problems. Deemphasizing the problem was negatively associated with proenvironmental behavior, whereas problem-focused and meaning-focused coping were positively associated with proenvironmental behavior. Two communication patterns with fathers, mothers, and friends were identified: one solution oriented and supportive, and one dismissive and doom-and-gloom oriented. The positive patterns correlated positively with problem-focused and meaning-focused coping, whereas the negative patterns correlated positively with deemphasizing. Communication with fathers was particularly important in explaining deemphasizing and problem-focused coping. A structural equation modeling (SEM) analysis showed that coping mediates the effects of communication patterns on behavior, whereas problem-focused coping mediates the influence of other coping strategies on behavior. The study demonstrates the importance of considering coping as a factor in the socialization of proenvironmental behavior.
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Mat Yusof, Noor Amalina, Wan Jamaliah Wan Jusoh, and Khairusy Syakirin Hasyun Hashim. "THE IMPORTANCE OF CUSTOMERS AND EMPLOYEES IN THE MUSLIM-FRIENDLY HOTELS: A REVIEW AND PROPOSED MODEL." Journal of Tourism, Hospitality and Environment Management 5, no. 18 (March 13, 2020): 10–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.35631/jthem.518002.
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The purpose of this conceptual paper is an attempt to introduce the model which illustrates the internal marketing strategy. It based on a critical review of the literature for insights that integrate internal Muslim-friendly hotels (MFH) and provide customer satisfaction. The review suggests that scholars in the area of Islamic marketing should start working towards the internal environment of MFH, in addition to discussing the importance of customers without looking at the needs of internal MFH. This paper proposes a conceptual framework that involves service climate, service behavior, and customer satisfaction. The dyadic interaction between employees-customers in a service serves as a basis of the conceptual framework development. This paper also suggests a dyadic multilevel method to investigate these relationships.
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Massei, Nicolas, Daniel G. Kingston, David M. Hannah, Jean-Philippe Vidal, Bastien Dieppois, Manuel Fossa, Andreas Hartmann, David A. Lavers, and Benoit Laignel. "Understanding and predicting large-scale hydrological variability in a changing environment." Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences 383 (September 16, 2020): 141–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/piahs-383-141-2020.
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Abstract. In a context of climate, environmental, ecological and socio-economical changes, understanding and predicting the response of hydrological systems on regional to global spatial scales, and on infra-seasonal to multidecadal time-scales, are major topics that must be considered to tackle the challenge of water resource management sustainability. In this context, a number of strongly-linked key issues need to be addressed by the scientific community, including: (i) identifying climate drivers of hydrological variations, (ii) understanding the multi-frequency characteristics of hydroclimate variability, including evolution of extremes (meteorological/hydrological event scale to long-term natural/internal climate- or anthropogenic-driven variations and trends), (iii) assessing the influence of local- to regional-scale basin properties on hydrological system response to climate variability and change, (iv) identifying the evolving contribution of anthropogenic water use in observed hydrological variations. Based on pan-European collaborations, activities of the EURO-FRIEND “Large-scale variations in hydrological characteristics” group aim at generating new findings to improve our understanding of hydrological systems behavior sensu lato (i.e. surface and sub-surface) on large spatial and temporal scales (i.e continental – multidecadal). Through selected examples, this contribution emphasizes recent research developments in characterizing and modeling of climate-hydrology linkages at different temporal and spatial scales, as well as recent insights on climate-hydrology scaling characteristics (i.e. long-term persistence, dependance of processes, of hydrological behaviors, of large-scale climate/hydrology linkages on time-/spatial scales), long-term hydrometeorological reconstructions, and large-scale hydrological model refinement taking into account spatial heterogeneity of watershed physical characteristics.
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Kwan, Ming, Anthony Kong, and Terry Lam. "Promoting Green Living by The Jockey Club Museum of Climate Change in Hong Kong." International Journal of Marketing Studies 11, no. 2 (May 23, 2019): 55. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijms.v11n2p55.
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Using the case study of The Jockey Club Museum of Climate Change in Hong Kong, the purpose is to explore how museum can take part to promote green living.
Design/Methodology/Approach—This paper explores the contributions of The Jockey Club Museum of Climate Change as a means to increase environmental awareness for the society. The objectives of The Jockey Club Museum of Climate Change aimed at showing the importance of community involvement, advocating environmentally friendly education and nurturing visitors’ moral obligation to engage in pro-environmental protection behavior. Authors conducted twenty-five in-depth semi-structured interviews with visitors so as to fully understand the influences brought by the museum.
Findings—The Jockey Club Museum of Climate Change was perceived by all of the study visitors as a meaningful, influencing and educative museum, which raised environmental awareness, upheld moral obligation to engage in environmental protection, and induced greater pro-environmental behavior. Based on the results, eight benefits are generated by The Jockey Club Museum of Climate Change to environmental protection for the entire globe.
Practical implications—Based on the insights gained from visitors, eight positive influences are contributed by The Jockey Club Museum of Climate Change for nurturing visitors to adopt a green living in order to combat climate change.
Originality/value—This paper urges for the importance of all communities, all business sectors, all kinds of organizations and governments to engage in environmental protection for sustainable development. The aim of such an episode is to arouse all the communities, business sectors, organizations, museums, educational institutions and countries to promote and adopt green living so as to combat climate change.