An experimental study to explore WTP for aviation carbon offsets: the impact of a carbon tax on the voluntary action

Choi, Andy S.

doi:10.1080/09640568.2014.940515

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“…Our results are in line with previous research concluding that government regulation generates motivation crowding effects on the environmental behavior of rural households (Cardenas, Stranlund, and Willis 2000;Choi 2015;Han et al 2018) and farmers (Vollan 2008), but diverge from the results of Abatayo and Lynham (2016). They found that government regulation improves environmental performance and interpreted this finding as evidence that crowding out of intrinsic motivation does not occur, although they did not test this explicitly.…”

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“…They concluded that externally imposed regulations do not crowd out intrinsic motivation. In contrast, Choi (2015) found that a mandatory carbon price reduces the willingness to pay for voluntary carbon offsets, whereas Han et al (2018) found that an increase in garbage fees crowds out households' pre-existing motivations for sorting waste, again supporting the crowding-out mechanism. 1 The literature on motivation crowding in the environmental domain has focused only on the behavior of individuals or households.…”

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Government regulation, business leaders’ motivations and environmental performance of SMEs

Graafland

Bovenberg

2019

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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This paper investigates whether government regulation crowds out intrinsic motivation to improve environmental performance of small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Motivation crowding is the phenomenon by which external pressures reduce intrinsic motivation. Literature on motivation crowding effects of environmental regulations exhibits two gaps. First, previous studies have focused on households while neglecting business organizations, even though businesses account for a major part of industrial pollution worldwide. Second, previous literature neither measured intrinsic motivation nor tested how government regulation affects this motivation. Empirical evidence of motivation crowding by environmental regulations is therefore still lacking. This paper fills both research gaps. Using a dataset of 2,373 SMEs from 12 European countries, we show that government regulation enhances environmental performance directly but harms it indirectly by crowding out intrinsic and extrinsic motivations of business leaders. It only stimulates environmental performance for companies exhibiting low motivation.

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Government regulation, business leaders’ motivations and environmental performance of SMEs

Graafland

Bovenberg

2019

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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“…Moreover, a monetization approach can be adopted to visualize the impact value in the industrialized building process. This is based on the social willingness to pay (WTP) theory in environmental economics [ 26 , 27 ]. In other words, a developer would need to pay a certain amount of money in order to offset the negative impact on the environment, such as energy consumption, ecological damage and pollution, and compensation to an affected community caused by, for example, the impact of additional noise and crowded road conditions.…”

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Evaluating the Environmental Impact of Construction within the Industrialized Building Process: A Monetization and Building Information Modelling Approach

Yao

Liu

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Industrialization has been widely regarded as a sustainable construction method in terms of its environmental friendliness. However, existing studies mainly consider the single impact of greenhouse gas emissions or material consumption in the construction process of industrialized buildings, and pay less attention to ecological pollution and community interest, which leads to an insufficient understanding. There is an urgent need to systematically carry out accurate assessment of comprehensive construction environmental impact within industrialized building processes. Various methods, including face-to-face interviews, field research and building information modeling (BIM), were used for data collection. Four categories selected for the study included resource consumption, material loss, ecological pollution, and community interest. A life cycle assessment (LCA) model, namely input-process-output model (IPO), is proposed to analyze the construction environmental impact of the standard layer of industrialized buildings from four life cycle stages, namely, transportation, stacking, assembly and cast-in-place. The monetization approach of willingness to pay (WTP) was applied to make a quantitative comparison. Results reveal that the assembly stage has the largest impact on the environment at 66.13% among the four life cycle stages, followed by transportation at 16.39%, stacking at 10.29%, and cast-in-place at 7.19%. The key factors include power consumption, noise pollution, material loss, fuel consumption and component loss, which altogether account for more than 85% of the total impact. Relevant stakeholders can conduct their project using the same approach to determine the construction environmental performance and hence introduce appropriate measures to mitigate the environmental burden.

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“…In reaction to the normative pressure from NGOs or externally existing regulations to reduce emissions, actors can use carbon-trading measures to fulfil corporate social responsibility (CSR) goals and to realize marketing opportunities in line with liberal environmentalist goals and values (Lyon and Maxwell 2007;Benwell 2009). The voluntary carbon market therefore plays an influential role for the private sector as it focuses on individual consumers and green consumerism (Lyon and Maxwell 2007;Choi 2015). However, voluntary schemes are often established in relation to existing regulatory schemes, which means that they may undermine the process of establishing successful mandatory policies (Lyon and Maxwell 2003;Segerson 2013).…”

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The Performance of the Climate-Energy Nexus

Nasiritousi

Sanderink²,

Skovgaard

et al. 2020

Governing the Climate-Energy Nexus

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The idea to produce a joint edited volume arose in early 2018. In June 2018, we could already discuss first draft chapters at a two-day workshop, which was kindly hosted by Harro van Asselt and Cleo Verkuijl at the Oxford branch of the Stockholm Environment Institute. The process of writing this book over the following year has been a stimulating, fruitful, and intense academic journey and conversation, which has cut across and bridged different scholarly fields such as international relations, environmental politics, law, geography, and environmental sciences. We presented our revised book chapters in a panel organized at the annual meeting of International Studies Association (ISA) in Toronto in March 2019 and want to express our gratitude to our discussant Matt Hoffmann from the University of Toronto. He provided extremely useful and excellent feedback that helped us to enhance the contributions to this book during the final steps before the submission of our manuscript.

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An experimental study to explore WTP for aviation carbon offsets: the impact of a carbon tax on the voluntary action

Cited by 32 publications

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Government regulation, business leaders’ motivations and environmental performance of SMEs

Government regulation, business leaders’ motivations and environmental performance of SMEs

Evaluating the Environmental Impact of Construction within the Industrialized Building Process: A Monetization and Building Information Modelling Approach

The Performance of the Climate-Energy Nexus

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