Fostering water sensitive citizenship – Community profiles of engagement in water-related issues

Dean, Angela J.; Lindsay, Joanne Maree; Fielding, Kelly S.; Smith, Liam David Graham

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2015.10.016

Cited by 92 publications

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“…In the survey, they particularly preferred public outreach as a means to promote water-saving policies. This might suggest that they are not motivated by saving money but by cultivating a water-saving identity [7]. This is also supported by the study in Dean et al [7] that higher income families were associated with higher engagement in water related issues.…”

Section: Effects Of Water-use Attitudes and Socioeconomic Characterissupporting

confidence: 74%

“…This might suggest that they are not motivated by saving money but by cultivating a water-saving identity [7]. This is also supported by the study in Dean et al [7] that higher income families were associated with higher engagement in water related issues. For high income families, creating peer pressure on water saving might be therefore more effective than government incentives.…”

Section: Effects Of Water-use Attitudes and Socioeconomic Characterissupporting

confidence: 74%

“…The ability to analyze residential water-use behavior at the household level would help planners and policy-makers target initiatives aiming at fostering community engagement in water-saving policies [7,[27][28][29].…”

Section: Residential Water Consumptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Dean et al [7] proposed a conceptual model of "water sensitive citizenship", which could help promote sustainable water-management initiatives. In their study, the term "water sensitive citizenship" refers to citizens that understand, value, and actively support the transitions to a water-saving city.…”

Section: Conceptual Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The problem of water scarcity in California is expected to exacerbate as its population continues to grow [4,5]. Coping with water scarcity has become a new research focus in urban and regional development not only in the United States but also throughout the world [6][7][8][9][10].…”

Section: Conceptual Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Responding to the Drought: A Spatial Statistical Approach to Investigating Residential Water Consumption in Fresno, California

Wang

Dong

2017

Sustainability

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Using data from the 2015 Residential Water Consumption Survey, this study examines residential water-use behavior and attitudes after the recent drought in Fresno, California. Spatial autoregressive models of residential water consumption were estimated, accounting for the effects of social interactions in communities (i.e., neighborhood effects), while controlling for indoor and outdoor house attributes, economic conditions, and attitudes toward water uses. The findings show that the spatial autocorrelations do exist. This suggests that the neighborhood effects can be a useful lever to facilitate initiatives aiming at promoting community engagement on water-saving practices. The results also indicate that a larger house tends to incur more water use, so does the presence of pools. Using a drip irrigation system for watering the backyard can help reduce water consumption. Medium income families turn out to use the least amount of water among different income groups, suggesting that water-saving policies may yield different results among residents of various income levels. Interestingly, respondents who considered themselves heavy water users actually used less water. This implies that the awareness of water importance can significantly influence residents' water-use behavior and therefore the promotion of a water-saving culture can help reduce residential water consumption.

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Section: Effects Of Water-use Attitudes and Socioeconomic Characterissupporting

confidence: 74%

Section: Effects Of Water-use Attitudes and Socioeconomic Characterissupporting

confidence: 74%

Section: Residential Water Consumptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Conceptual Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Conceptual Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Dong

2017

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Bringing the “social” into sociohydrology: Conservation policy support in the Central Great Plains of Kansas, USA

Sanderson

Bergtold

Stamm

et al. 2017

Water Resources Research

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Identifying means of empirically modeling the human component of a coupled, human‐water system becomes critically important to further advances in sociohydrology. We develop a social‐psychological model of environmental decision making that addresses four key challenges of incorporating social science into integrated models. We use the model to explain preferences for three conservation policies designed to conserve and protect water resources and aquatic ecosystems in the Smoky Hill River Basin, a semiarid agricultural region in the Central U.S. Great Plains. Further, we compare the model's capacity to explain policy preferences among members of two groups in the River Basin: agricultural producers and members of nonfarming communities. We find that financial obligation is the strongest and most consistent explanation of support for conservation policies among members of both groups. We also find that policy support is grounded in cultural values—deeply held ideas about right and wrong. Environmental values are particularly important explanations of policy support. The constellations of values invoked to make decisions about policies, and the social‐psychological pathways linking values to policy support, can vary across policies and types of agents (farmers and nonfarmers). We discuss the implications of the results for future research in sociohydrology.

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Exploring the synergy between customer home‐based and hotel‐based water consumption and conservation behaviors: An empirical approach

Untaru

Ispas

Han

2020

J of Consumer Behaviour

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This study aimed to investigate the synergy between customers' home-based and hotel-based water conservation behaviors. A market segmentation approach based on water conservation behaviors in households and environmental concerns was undertaken to identify the distinct types of individual groups and understand the differences between segments in terms of demographic characteristics, attitudes, moral obligation, and intentions toward water conservation behavior in a hotel guestroom. Our empirical findings showed that individuals who save water at home and are more environmentally concerned have stronger attitudes, moral obligation, and water conservation intentions while staying in a hotel. The cluster analysis indicated that three distinct segments existed that are significantly different in terms of gender and age. The findings suggested that targeting the three segments, which included the environmentally concerned and active, the environmentally concerned but inactive, and the environmentally unconcerned and inactive groups, with different communication strategies may prove to be a more efficient approach for hotel managers.

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Fostering water sensitive citizenship – Community profiles of engagement in water-related issues

Cited by 92 publications

References 49 publications

Responding to the Drought: A Spatial Statistical Approach to Investigating Residential Water Consumption in Fresno, California

Responding to the Drought: A Spatial Statistical Approach to Investigating Residential Water Consumption in Fresno, California

Bringing the “social” into sociohydrology: Conservation policy support in the Central Great Plains of Kansas, USA

Exploring the synergy between customer home‐based and hotel‐based water consumption and conservation behaviors: An empirical approach

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