Factors affecting environmental sustainability habits of university students: Intercomparison analysis in three countries (Spain, Brazil and UAE)

Chuvieco, Emilio; Burgui-Burgui, Mario; Silva, Edson Vicente da; Hussein, Khalid; Alkaabi, Khaula

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.07.121

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“…Education needs to be emphasized on environmental sustainability education because global environmental issues are increasingly complex. Education is the central pillar that can change people's values to care more about the environment (Chuvieco et al, 2018). One of the education programs carried out by educators is providing learning about the environment.…”

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Case Study: Future Home Design Project for Developing Pro-Environmental Attitudes

Yuliyanto

2019

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The results of the learning evaluation indicate that many students do not apply to proenvironmental attitudes. This case study research investigated the potential of making future home designs to develop a pro-environmental attitude. The study was conducted in two stages and involved thirty-five students. In the first stage, the students discussed plants, water, electricity, and garbage at home. The results of the discussion were formulated to be future home designs. In the second stage, the students designed future homes. The results show that the students can implement their ideas into 2-dimensional (2D). The results indicate that most of the students can implement their ideas as much as 86%. The students enthusiastically participated in the learning process. The results show that all students have plants, 11% use Light Emitting Diode (LED), 6% use solar lighting, 71% use proper water sanitation, 54% apply waste management, and 81% have bio pores. It can be concluded that future home design project has the potential to develop a pro-environment attitude.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Case Study: Future Home Design Project for Developing Pro-Environmental Attitudes

Yuliyanto

2019

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“…Apparently, students majoring in business reported engagement in PEBs at a significantly lower level than students who were not majoring in business (Lang, 2011). More recently, Chuvieco, Burgui-Burgui, Da Silva, Hussein, and Alkaabi’s (2018) study demonstrated that students of environment-related disciplines (Environmental Geography, Biology and Natural Conservation, Environmental Studies and Sciences, and so on) reported more engagement in sustainable practices than students with other majors (Technology, Economics, Engineering, and so on). Most interestingly, among students of environment-related disciplines, the level of engagement in sustainable practices among students in different class years of university study was not significant.…”

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Factors Affecting Environmental Activism, Nonactivist Behaviors, and the Private Sphere Green Behaviors of Thai University Students

Janmaimool

2019

Education and Urban Society

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University students are expected by the general public to be active in pro-environmental behaviors due to their environmental knowledge and relevant education. However, it is still unclear whether students only educated in environmental knowledge will decide to engage in green behaviors. This study investigates factors that determine university students’ pro-environmental behaviors, which include environmental activism, nonactivism, and private sphere environmental activities. A proposed model for investigating such factors, which include environmental knowledge and attitudes, self-efficacy, self-obligation, behavioral control, and sociodemographic characteristics, was developed. Questionnaire surveys with 337 students enrolled at King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi in the city of Bangkok, Thailand, were carried out. Multiple regression analyses were performed to test the effect of these potential factors on each type of behavior. The results showed that providing only environmental knowledge at a university may not contribute to any kind of pro-environmental behavior. It was found that environmental knowledge and attitudes had a significant effect on students’ nonactivist behaviors. Without positive environmental attitudes, but with environmental knowledge and self-efficacy, students decided to engage in environmental activism. In addition, male students were more likely to engage in environmental activism than female students. Finally, students’ engagement in private sphere green behaviors was attributed to self-obligation, environmental knowledge, and environmental attitudes, as well as grade point average (GPA). Students with a higher GPA were more likely to act environmentally. Therefore, to promote each type of environmental behavior, different environmental education strategies should be developed.

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“…Recent studies have found that young educated consumers are more prone to engage in environmental behaviours in emerging economies (Khare, 2015;Yadav & Pathak, 2017), and understanding their consumption behaviour may provide valuable insights as to how their consumption patterns are going to shape up in future (Moon et al, 2018). Understanding students' green consumption is imperative because they constitute an understudied group of the population in environmental research (Chuvieco, Burgui-Burgui, Da Silva, Hussein, & Alkaabi, 2018;Yadav & Pathak, 2017). Therefore, 325 university/college students of Delhi constitute the sample of this study.…”

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Modelling the predictors of young consumers' sustainable consumption intention

Joshi

Sangroya

Srivastava

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J of Philanthropy and Mktg

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Sustainable consumption refers to consumers' socially and environmentally responsible consumption practices. The present study is the first to investigate possible individual, behavioural, and situational factors that predict sustainable consumption intention among young consumers in India. A survey was carried out on 325 young consumers. Structural equation modelling was applied to check the extent to which the considered variables predicted sustainable consumption. The results determined drive for environmental responsibility, subjective norm, and attitude towards sustainable consumption as key predictors of consumers' sustainable consumption intention. The paper offers a better understanding of the main predictors of consumers' sustainable consumption intention. Such understanding may enable managers to design effective marketing strategies to encourage sustainable consumption intention and behaviour.

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Factors affecting environmental sustainability habits of university students: Intercomparison analysis in three countries (Spain, Brazil and UAE)

Cited by 62 publications

References 23 publications

Case Study: Future Home Design Project for Developing Pro-Environmental Attitudes

Case Study: Future Home Design Project for Developing Pro-Environmental Attitudes

Factors Affecting Environmental Activism, Nonactivist Behaviors, and the Private Sphere Green Behaviors of Thai University Students

Modelling the predictors of young consumers' sustainable consumption intention

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