Influencing Carbon Behaviours: What Psychological and Demographic Factors Contribute to Individual Differences in Home Energy Use Reduction and Transportation Mode Decisions?

Hall, Camille A.; Allan, F

doi:10.5539/eer.v4n1p1

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“…In terms of awareness and perception of human cause, a nation's wealth and education are greater indicators (Knight, 2016). To promote sustainable behaviour, research has shown that appealing to emotions while developing a nation's climate policy through, for example, marketing/ advertising efforts, can affect the climate change beliefs of individuals (Hall & Allan, 2014;Howell, 2014;Kim & Wolinsky-Nahmias, 2014;Semenza et al, 2008). While the results of the current study demonstrate that beliefs have a significant influence on individual climate change behaviour, the connection between how beliefs turn into behaviour remains unclear.…”

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From Thoughts to Actions: The Importance of Climate Change Education in Enhancing Students’ Self-Efficacy

Muroi

Bertone

2019

Aust. J. environ. educ.

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The relation between the understanding and belief of the site-specific dangers of climate change and the behaviour that individuals take to mitigate their impacts was assessed to investigate the psychological antecedent to pro-environmental behaviour; a necessity to mitigate anthropogenic climate change at the individual level. A quantitative cross-sectional design was employed to measure beliefs and behaviour of university students. Correlation was measured between the belief in one’s ability to affect change and pro-environmental behaviour. The hypothesis that nations facing greater climate threat would behave accordingly was tested on the two largest national representatives of the sample, China and Australia. In addition, a naïve Bayesian network, coupled with a self-organising map, was developed to explore correlations between self-efficacy and participants’ socio-demographic features. Results showed that Chinese students are more likely to have higher self-efficacy, while such trend was not noticed for Australians. Similarly, participants with higher educational qualifications, older, and with higher paid jobs also have a higher chance of presenting pro-environmental behaviour. Despite the study limitations, there seems to be evidence suggesting that educational and climate change policies have affected students’ self-efficacy and individual commitment to mitigation.

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From Thoughts to Actions: The Importance of Climate Change Education in Enhancing Students’ Self-Efficacy

Muroi

Bertone

2019

Aust. J. environ. educ.

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“…Environmental literacy in ecology dictionary referred to the knowledge of natural systems and ecological concepts, the understanding of environmental issues and the environmental problem-solving with investigation, thinking and communication (Liu and Lin, 2014). As Hall and Allan (2014) pointed out, environmental literacy referred to individual knowledge and attitudes related to the environment and environmental issue, skills and motivation to solve environmental problems, and willingness to maintain the dynamic balance between life quality and environmental quality (Hall and Allan, 2014). Rashid and Asghar (2016) proposed that environmental literacy should focus on responsible environmental behaviors and ecology concepts related to environment and the implied mutual relationship among environments (Rashid and Asghar, 2016).…”

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Effects of environmental education on environmental ethics and literacy based on virtual reality technology

Liu

Zhong-ming

Chen

2019

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Purpose This study aims to propose the corresponding ways and methods to strengthen the environmental moral education based on scientific research methods, rigorous scientific theory and the specific content of environmental moral education. Design/methodology/approach In this study, taking 360 volunteers of Yangtze University, Hubei, as the research samples, the 32-week (3 h per week) experimental research was preceded in this study. Among the 360 distributed copies of questionnaires, 289 copies are valid, with the retrieval rate 80 per cent. Findings The research results show significant correlations between environmental education and environmental ethics; environmental ethics and environmental literacy; and environmental education and environmental literacy. Research limitations/implications The research on the environmental moral education in China was still in the primary stage, and there were few results that can be used for reference. As a result, there was a lack of empirical research in this paper, which needed to be further expanded and improved. Practical implications This study put forward a series of new judgments and new views to solve the problems, which provided a good theoretical basis for the current education and teaching work of the majority of educators and valuable reference for future research on related topics. This study was helpful to further enhance the environmental moral awareness and environmental moral level. Aiming at the problems existing in environmental moral education, this study proposed a series of solutions to make the whole society, schools and families work together for the improvement and development of environmental moral education. Originality/value This study was helpful to promote environmental moral quality and level, promote the harmony between man and nature and form a good habit of environmental protection in the whole society.

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“…The most useful and concise way to do this was deemed to be the Likert scale as employed by Hall and Allan (2014); as such a 1-5 score was assigned, with 1 illustrating a minor relevance to the topic and 5 showing significant overlap with course material. The benefits of using the Likert scale were considered to be its simplicity of construction, the ease with which participants can read and complete the scoring system and the likelihood of producing a highly reliable scale (Bertram, 2007).…”

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Large Scale Power Generation: Up-Skilling Welsh Industry

Locke¹,

Hewlett²

2014

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As the move to a low carbon economy presents new challenges for existing industry, there is increasing consensus on the need to address the green skills agenda in order to ensure that the transition is timely and effective. There is however little empirical evidence of the development and delivery of low carbon training courses, specifically in the area of Large Scale Power Generation (LSPG). This study examined the level and form of existing low carbon combustion training in and around Wales and the demand for such training amongst Welsh industry. This is with a view to developing training courses through the Welsh Energy Sector Training project (WEST). Demand for potential WEST courses was found to be positive; specific interest for course content included: The Nature of Fuels, Utilization of Waste, Energy Conversion Processes, Energy Conversion Technologies, Combustion Science, Improving Combustion Efficiency & Emissions and Combustion Risks & Hazards. Critically, geographical factors must be taken into account when assessing the most appropriate form of delivery; e-learning could be a useful tool for maximizing participant numbers. An important implication from the research arose; existing training is generally provided at master's degree level, whilst findings indicate a preference for courses at introductory undergraduate degree level. As such a close collaboration with participants is required if the training developed is truly to be of value to industry in Wales during the transition to a low carbon economy.

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Influencing Carbon Behaviours: What Psychological and Demographic Factors Contribute to Individual Differences in Home Energy Use Reduction and Transportation Mode Decisions?

Cited by 5 publications

References 25 publications

From Thoughts to Actions: The Importance of Climate Change Education in Enhancing Students’ Self-Efficacy

From Thoughts to Actions: The Importance of Climate Change Education in Enhancing Students’ Self-Efficacy

Effects of environmental education on environmental ethics and literacy based on virtual reality technology

Large Scale Power Generation: Up-Skilling Welsh Industry

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