One Without the Other? Behavioural and Incentive Policies for Household Waste Management

Kirakozian, Ankinée

doi:10.1111/joes.12159

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“…In other words, individuals tend to dispose waste illegally when their attitude toward such behavior is more favorable and/or when they perceive that they have more control of the behavior. Individuals may have had a favorable attitude toward illegal disposal due to a lack of awareness or ignorance about the environmental and/or legal consequences of the illegal municipal waste disposal [46,47]. To reduce this attitude, it is important for our government to raise the public awareness of proper waste disposal and their eco-responsibility through education.…”

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Asking Sensitive Questions Using the Randomized Response Approach in Public Health Research: An Empirical Study on the Factors of Illegal Waste Disposal

Chong

Chu²,

et al. 2019

IJERPH

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A survey study is a research method commonly used to quantify population characteristics in biostatistics and public health research, two fields that often involve sensitive questions. However, if answering sensitive questions could cause social undesirability, respondents may not provide honest responses to questions that are asked directly. To mitigate the response distortion arising from dishonest answers to sensitive questions, the randomized response technique (RRT) is a useful and effective statistical method. However, research has seldom addressed how to apply the RRT in public health research using an online survey with multiple sensitive questions. Thus, we help fill this research gap by employing an innovative unrelated question design method. To illustrate how the RRT can be implemented in a multivariate analysis setting, we conducted a survey study to examine the factors affecting the intention of illegal waste disposal. This study demonstrates an application of the RRT to investigate the factors affecting people’s intention of illegal waste disposal. The potential factors of the intention were adopted from the theory of planned behavior and the general deterrence theory, and a self-administered online questionnaire was employed to collect data. Using the RRT, a covariance matrix was extracted for examining the hypothesized model via structural equation modeling. The survey results show that people’s attitude toward the behavior and their perceived behavioral control significantly positively affect their intention. This paper is useful for showing researchers and policymakers how to conduct surveys in environmental or public health related research that involves multiple sensitive questions.

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Asking Sensitive Questions Using the Randomized Response Approach in Public Health Research: An Empirical Study on the Factors of Illegal Waste Disposal

Chong

Chu²,

et al. 2019

IJERPH

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“…Environmental sanctions, employed in the context of environmental policy, prove to be an appropriate deterrent in Germany (Almer and Goeschl, 2010). Specific policies could be helpful in the promotion of recycling behavior (Kirakozian, 2016) and even the advice and threat of sanction increase cooperation (waste management) in the beginning, but the effect disappears as soon as the sanction is applied (Festré et al, 2017).…”

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On the Determinants of Pro-Environmental Behavior: A Literature Review and Guide for the Empirical Economist

Blankenberg

Alhusen

2019

SSRN Journal

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This paper provides a systematic review of current economic and psychological studies on the determinants of PEB published up to 2017. Our normative understanding and study of PEB can benefit from an integral review of these research traditions. Consequently, we identify various determinants of PEB that can be classified into four major types: • Socio-demographic factors (personal capabilities) • Attitudinal (psychological) factors • Habits • Contextual factors (individual, social and institutional) Our paper shows that to understand the complex workings of PEB, it is no longer viable to study its determinants individually, but researchers must rather consider an interplay of these factors. In addition to the introduction of this intersectional approach, we show that measuring PEB in an adequate way requires the consideration of more than one or two distinct behaviors (multiple items) as the impact of the determinants differs depending on the analyzed behavior. PEB itself can also be distinguished into types of PEB (private vs public sphere behaviors, environmental activism). Additionally, our review gives an overview of the typical methodological approaches and systematizes the questions used to measure PEB. By combining results from economics and psychology, this work offers a starting point for a more intersectional and interdisciplinary understanding of PEB, and a guide for further empirical investigations.

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“…For example, Burns et al [22] analyzed incentive subsidies from the economic and financial perspective and stated that they could bring great potential to the solar photovoltaic market. Kirakozian et al [23] believed that the influence of emotional factors and social interactions should also be considered in the process of formulating incentive policies. Scholars also established a welfare policy network to establish the core position of the policy in the decision-making process and achieve the goal of supporting policy formulation [24].…”

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Complex Network Analysis of Transmission Mechanism for Sustainable Incentive Policies

Feng

Guo

et al. 2020

Sustainability

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Existing research mainly focuses on the external impact of incentive policies of industrialized/manufactured construction (IMC). However, it is still unclear how the transmission mechanism among cities and regions of IMC incentive policies works in the process of formulation. To fill the knowledge gap, this study establishes a relationship matrix to propose the transmission-weighted complex network (TWCN). Degree distribution and clustering coefficient are used to calculate the transmission path and the transmission intensity of TWCN. The validation is based on data collected from 415 policy documents (2010–2018) and 2923 items from 181 nodes of the TWCN for IMC policies. The findings show that transmission path of IMC incentive policies is from the eastern coast of China to the central, western and northern regions. Fiscal and taxation incentives have the greatest intensity of spatial agglomeration in the transmission process. The results of the TWCN are consistent and conform to the scientific and rational expectations of research. Overall, the research outcomes are applicable to studies on sustainability policies in different fields, including sustainable construction, renewable energy, etc. Policy makers can implement the TWCN to recognize the performance and functions of different incentives and propose effective strategies to achieve sustainability.

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One Without the Other? Behavioural and Incentive Policies for Household Waste Management

Cited by 48 publications

References 105 publications

Asking Sensitive Questions Using the Randomized Response Approach in Public Health Research: An Empirical Study on the Factors of Illegal Waste Disposal

Asking Sensitive Questions Using the Randomized Response Approach in Public Health Research: An Empirical Study on the Factors of Illegal Waste Disposal

On the Determinants of Pro-Environmental Behavior: A Literature Review and Guide for the Empirical Economist

Complex Network Analysis of Transmission Mechanism for Sustainable Incentive Policies

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