Estimating Heating-Related GHG Emissions: The Advantage of a Household Composition-Based Survey Approach

Schweighart, Markus; Schwarzinger, Stephan; Bird, David Neil

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“…In empirical work, recent findings emphasize the importance of a thorough coverage of sociostructural factors in the analysis of climate related behaviour and resulting impacts. For example, results obtained by Schweighart, Schwarzinger, and Bird (2020) show that using household composition in regression models increases the explanatory power. Hornsey, Harris, Bain, and Fielding (2016) show that even if other variables are more important predictors of climate change perception, socio-demographics such as gender, age, or education are relevant.…”

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What triggers individual climate actions in different neighbourhoods? Individual, collective, cultural, and socio-structural factors

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Brenner-Fliesser,

Carrus

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This paper takes a multi-perspective approach to understand drivers and barriers of climate action on the neighbourhood level in a selection of European neighbourhoods. The starting point for the analysis is the assumption that actions on the level of citizens to protect the climate are most motivating and promising, when conducted jointly within established social systems like neighbourhoods. The aim of this paper therefore is to identify most relevant factors that are associated with climate actions of individuals on the neighbourhood level. To do so, the paper outlines the multiple perspectives chosen for the analysis of drivers and barriers on the individual, collective, cultural, and socio-structural level. Based on this, a survey was designed to measure these aspects and implemented in nine European neighbourhoods (3 in Austria, 2 in Norway, 2 in Italy, 2 in Finland). The neighbourhoods were partly in rural communities (4) and partly in urban or semi-urban areas (5). In total, 1.084 answers were retained between summer 2022 and summer 2023. The impact of factors from the different perspectives on the self-reported number of implemented climate actions were tested in a structured, regression-based approach. The analyses show that intentions to act both on the individual and collective level impact the number of climate actions implemented by citizens living in the neighbourhood, but individual intentions are more important. In addition, local cultural aspects have an impact on climate action. Individual intentions to act are slightly less important in rural, than in semi/urban neighbourhoods. On the socio-structural level, males and households with younger children report fewer climate actions, whereas larger households in general and people with university degree report more. Intentions to act individually are mostly determined by perceived individual efficacy and attitudes, but also selected cultural and socio-structural factors. Collective intentions to act depend on the social capital in the neighbourhood and social norms, as well as selected socio-structural and cultural factors. Concluding, this paper emphasises that in order to understand, implement (and increase) the climate-related actions of citizens efficient, the individual, collective, cultural and socio-structural factors must be taken into account and that the level of neighbourhoods, where everyday action takes place, is a relevant unit of analysis to do so.

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Section: Socio-structural Factors Influencing Climate Actionmentioning

confidence: 99%

What triggers individual climate actions in different neighbourhoods? Individual, collective, cultural, and socio-structural factors

Klöckner,

Brenner-Fliesser,

Carrus

et al. 2024

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“…The main influencing factors regarding heating emissions per capita are the floor space, the number of persons living in a household, and the type of main source of energy used (thus the kind of fuel) (Schweighart et al, 2020). If the type of dwelling and the thermal insulation are added, the explanatory power for heating emissions increases to approximately 70%.…”

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Surveying Climate-Relevant Behavior

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Schwarzinger

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The Development of the Questionnaire

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Klösch

Schwarzinger

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This chapter presents the development of the survey in the underlying study in this book, a description of our sample, and the results of the validation efforts. Our survey includes variations of existing scales which have been used to measure climate-relevant behaviors within the areas of housing, mobility, diet, and consumption. We go beyond these existing questions, however, as we also include various new items and analyze the validity of existing and new questions. Based on our findings we recommend a set of questions for different significant areas of emissions, for example, asking about the distance traveled by car in the previous year, the number of short-haul and long-haul flights, and a question about the frequency of the consumption of particularly energy-intensive foods.

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Estimating Heating-Related GHG Emissions: The Advantage of a Household Composition-Based Survey Approach

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What triggers individual climate actions in different neighbourhoods? Individual, collective, cultural, and socio-structural factors

What triggers individual climate actions in different neighbourhoods? Individual, collective, cultural, and socio-structural factors

Surveying Climate-Relevant Behavior

The Development of the Questionnaire

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