Green hypocrisy?: Environmental attitudes and residential space heating expenditure

Lange, Ian; Moro, Mirko; Traynor, Laura

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2014.07.021

“…The divergence of the results between climate change concern and pro-environmental actions on the effect of education also helps ensure against the claims of a green hypocrisy by popular media. Green hypocrisy refers to groups with the strongest environmentally friendly attitudes while at the same time having the highest emissions or being more likely to take actions that are most harmful to the environment (Lange et al, 2014). In contrast, according to our results, those who have spent more years in education although are not shown to have a greater concern towards the environment, they are more likely to express it in terms of actions.…”

Section: Knowledge-based Pro-environmental Actionscontrasting

confidence: 53%

Green Returns to Education: Does Schooling Contribute to Pro-Environmental Behaviours? Evidence from Thailand

Chankrajang

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,

Muttarak

²

2017

Ecological Economics

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We investigate whether there are green returns to education, where formal education encourages pro-environmental behaviours using nationally representative surveys on environmental issues in Thailand. To establish the causal relationship between education and green behaviours, we exploit the instrumental variables strategy using the supply of state primary schooling i.e. the corresponding number of teachers per 1000 children, which varies over time and across regions as the instrument, while controlling for regional, cohort and income effects. We find that more years of schooling lead to a greater probability of taking knowledge-based environmentallyfriendly actions a great deal, but not cost-saving pro-environmental actions. In addition, the paper finds no significant impact of formal education on concern about global warming nor the willingness to pay for environmental tax.

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“…Green and Tunstall (1999) indicate that reports regarding hypothetical situations do not coincide with those in which the situations are real. This statement falls in line with the results reported by Lange et al (2014), who found that environmental attitudes and environmental behaviors yield to 1 This is a certification system for high-energy efficiency products from the U.S. Green Building Council. different results.…”

Section: Datasupporting

confidence: 80%

“…An explanation could be the so-called 'compliance bias' which makes respondents state a socially accepted WTP due to the influence of social norms (Green and Tunstall, 1999). This divergence runs in parallel with the results found by Lange et al (2014) (see section 2).…”

supporting

confidence: 80%

Pro-Environmental Households and Energy Efficiency in Spain

Ramos

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,

Labandeira

²

,

Löschel³

2015

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu Terms of use: Documents in Pro-Environmental Households and Energy Efficiency in SpainAna Ramos*, Xavier Labandeira and Andreas Löschel AbstractThe residential building sector is a major driver of current and future energy consumption and associated emissions, which can be potentially mitigated through significant energy-efficiency (EE) improvements in both emerging and developed countries. Yet, there are several persistent barriers that hinder the attainment of EE improvements in this area. Using data from a 2008 national representative survey of Spanish households, this paper is interested in the determinants of EE-related decisions. In particular, a discrete-choice model empirically analyzes whether proenvironmental households are more likely to invest in EE and to adopt daily energysaving habits. We show that households with eco-friendly behaviors are more likely to investment in well-differentiated EE measures as well as to steer daily habits towards energy savings. However, no effects are found for households with environmental attitudes based on stated willingness to pay to protect the environment. In addition to this, households belonging to higher income groups and education levels are more likely to invest in EE but not to adopt energy-saving habits; while households with older members are less likely to invest in EE and show fewer eco-friendly habits.

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“…Additionally, we include questions related to both environmentally-friendly attitudes and behaviors. Previous findings (Lange et al, 2014) showed that questions related to current behavior are expected to be better indicators of future actions than questions based on attitudes, as indicated by psychologists (Kollmuss and Agyeman, 2002). In the environmental valuation literature it is well-known that social pressure can lead respondents to report socially acceptable answers that might bias the effect of stated preferences (Green and Tunstall, 1999;Kollmuss and Agyeman, 2002).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pro-environmental Households and Energy Efficiency in Spain

Ramos

¹

,

Labandeira

²

,

Löschel

³

2015

Environ Resource Econ

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu Terms of use: Documents in Pro-Environmental Households and Energy Efficiency in SpainAna Ramos*, Xavier Labandeira and Andreas Löschel AbstractThe residential building sector is a major driver of current and future energy consumption and associated emissions, which can be potentially mitigated through significant energy-efficiency (EE) improvements in both emerging and developed countries. Yet, there are several persistent barriers that hinder the attainment of EE improvements in this area. Using data from a 2008 national representative survey of Spanish households, this paper is interested in the determinants of EE-related decisions. In particular, a discrete-choice model empirically analyzes whether proenvironmental households are more likely to invest in EE and to adopt daily energysaving habits. We show that households with eco-friendly behaviors are more likely to investment in well-differentiated EE measures as well as to steer daily habits towards energy savings. However, no effects are found for households with environmental attitudes based on stated willingness to pay to protect the environment. In addition to this, households belonging to higher income groups and education levels are more likely to invest in EE but not to adopt energy-saving habits; while households with older members are less likely to invest in EE and show fewer eco-friendly habits.

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Green hypocrisy?: Environmental attitudes and residential space heating expenditure

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Green Returns to Education: Does Schooling Contribute to Pro-Environmental Behaviours? Evidence from Thailand

Green Returns to Education: Does Schooling Contribute to Pro-Environmental Behaviours? Evidence from Thailand

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