Community Identification Moderating the Impact of Financial Incentives in a Natural Social Dilemma: Water Conservation

Vugt, Mark van

doi:10.1177/01461672012711005

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“…While environmentally friendly behavior is a cooperative choice in a vast social dilemma situation (Van Vugt, 2001), and while the concept of perceived criticality was conceived specifically for describing Bandura's self-efficacy (1977) in social dilemma situations M A N U S C R I P T…”

Section: Perceived Criticalitymentioning

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Justifying environmentally significant behavior choices: An American-Hungarian cross-cultural comparison

Kovács

Pántya

Medvés

et al. 2014

Journal of Environmental Psychology

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This study examined the function held by justification of environmentally harmful behavior in the relationship between environmental attitudes and environmental behavior. We tested this function in a cross-cultural context hypothesizing culture-dependent relationship between justification and reported behavior. One-hundred American and 100 Hungarian middle class participants responded to the New Environmental Paradigm scale (NEP), the General Ecological Behavior scale (GEB), and self-developed scales for measuring perceived criticality of environmentally significant behaviors and justification for non-behavior. Environmental attitudes and reported proenvironmental behavior were positively correlated irrespective of culture. However, in case of Americans justification appeared to be an organic element of an array beginning with attitudes and ending at behavior, while Hungarians justified non-behavior independently of pro-environmental activities, influenced only by proenvironmental attitudes. Furthermore we observed higher scores on justification, NEP, and GEB scales among Hungarians. Gender differences appeared only among Americans where women showed more environmental concern than men.

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Section: Perceived Criticalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Justifying environmentally significant behavior choices: An American-Hungarian cross-cultural comparison

Kovács

Pántya

Medvés

et al. 2014

Journal of Environmental Psychology

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“…Perhaps the informants have attachments to natural environments that motivate them to defend the environment by living sustainably. Prior findings have shown that a strong place identity may create more engagement in climate actions in the local community (Forsyth et al 2015;Vaske and Korbin 2001;Vugt 2001), while others have not found evidence supporting this link (Gosling and Williams 2010;Hernández et al 2010).…”

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confidence: 97%

What Motivates Green Living? A Qualitative Investigation of Sustainable Life Choices

Weme

Madsen

2018

Hu Arenas

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The purpose of this qualitative enquiry was to map the psychological motives behind sustainable lifestyles. Narrative interviews with inhabitants (N = 8) of the ecovillage in Hurdal north of Oslo and the Sustainable Lives movement in Bergen were conducted. A thematic analysis shows that the informants express taking responsibility for climate change, which suggests that they perceive sustainability as a moral issue. They report a greater sense of alignment with their own values when living sustainably, something that is experienced as rewarding, but living sustainably is also recognized as more positive in own right. For example, the participants enjoy a lifestyle that is more social after a change to sustainable living. Nevertheless, there is acceptance that the informants sometimes have to live in ways that are less environmentally friendly in order to achieve the long-term goal; this duality helps them to continue their sustainable lifestyle even in the face of setbacks.

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“…From studies on this basis using experimental public goods games (PGG), economic models of peer pressure, microfinance institutions and natural resource usage; peer pressure mechanism is found to increase cooperative behaviour [20][21][22][23][24]. The strategy has been used in the case of sanitation in Zambia, India, Bangladesh [25][26].…”

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Power of Networks and Peer Pressure: An analysis of Slum Sanitation Program in Mumbai

Asokan¹

2017

J-Sustain

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With the advent of the "Clean India" campaign in India, a renewed focus on cleanliness has started, with a special focus on sanitation. There have been efforts in the past to provide sanitation related services, however, there were several challenges in provisioning. Provision of sanitation is a public health imperative given increased instances of antimicrobial resistance in India. This paper focuses on sanitation provisioning in the city of Mumbai, especially in the slums of Mumbai. The paper compares and contrasts different models of sanitation provision including supply-led provisioning of sanitation by the Indian government to demand-led provisioning of sanitation through a World Bank funded "Slum Sanitation Program" (SSP). The paper also outlines a comparative perspective on the implementation and usage of toilet blocks. The author presents the theory of social networks and positive peer pressure, and argues that these will amplify the effect of other incentives. With the help of an illustration, this paper concludes that the sustainable sanitation policy should look at facilitating and creating the infrastructure as a network and not strictly at building toilet blocks.

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Community Identification Moderating the Impact of Financial Incentives in a Natural Social Dilemma: Water Conservation

Cited by 107 publications

References 24 publications

Justifying environmentally significant behavior choices: An American-Hungarian cross-cultural comparison

Justifying environmentally significant behavior choices: An American-Hungarian cross-cultural comparison

What Motivates Green Living? A Qualitative Investigation of Sustainable Life Choices

Power of Networks and Peer Pressure: An analysis of Slum Sanitation Program in Mumbai

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