The impact of electronic environmental knowledge on the environmental behaviors of people

Zareie, Batool; Navimipour, Nima Jafari

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2016.01.025

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“…These values emphasise protection of the natural environment and sustainability (Zhu and Yao 2008) which suggests relatively high levels of pro-environmental awareness among the Chinese and Korean. Meanwhile, knowledge is one of the internal factors that can influence pro-environmental attitudes and behaviour (Anable et al 2006) and Zareie and Navimipour (2016) The study indicates that most Chinese and Korean tourists are unfamiliar with some specific, underpinning concepts signifying the environmental impacts that are not likely to be used in daily life, such as carbon footprint. They also fail to establish links between certain tourism activities (such as air travel) and climate change which is in line with the literature .…”

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On linguistic relativity and pro-environmental attitudes in tourism

Kim

Filimonau

2017

Tourism Management

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Language is a key cultural and cognitive attribute which can shape the way people think and behave. Research in economics has tested the influence of language on human consumption and found that languages that explicitly mark future events, i.e. so-called future-timereference or strong FTR languages, may engage their speakers in less future-oriented attitudes and actions. This phenomenon is known as linguistic relativity. By applying its principles to tourism, this study investigated the impact of language on pro-environmental attitudes of tourists. Comparative analysis of Korean (strong FTR language) and Mandarin (weak FTR language) speaking tourists revealed substantial differences in attitudes. Although tourists possessed good knowledge on the environmental impacts of tourism, this knowledge did not translate into high pro-environmental attitudes for Korean speakers while it did for Mandarin.This suggests that language can shape the attitudes of tourists towards environmental impacts.Implications for management, policy-making and future research are discussed.1

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On linguistic relativity and pro-environmental attitudes in tourism

Kim

Filimonau

2017

Tourism Management

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“…ER is therefore considered important to promote PEBs. Many scholars also contend that ER significantly contributes to an individual's readiness to engage in PEBs [28][29][30]. Clark et al [25], for instance, stated that ER enables individuals to act for environmental protection.…”

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Effect of Domestic and Global Environmental Events on Environmental Concern and Environmental Responsibility among University Students

Janmaimool

Chudech

2020

Sustainability

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“…ER is therefore considered important to promote PEBs. Many scholars also contend that ER significantly contributes to an individual's readiness to engage in PEBs [27][28][29]. Clark et al [25], for instance, stated that ER enables individuals to act for environmental protection.…”

Section: Environmental Responsibilitymentioning

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Effect of Domestic and Global Environmental Events on Environmental Concern and Environmental Responsibility among University Students

Janmaimool¹,

Chudech²

2020

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Recently, both global and domestic environmental events have been occurring more frequently, bringing catastrophic consequences to humans and the environment. These adverse events have caused widespread concern among the general public. In positive terms, these devastating events could potentially enhance people's environmental awareness, which, in turn, could instill a greater sense of environmental responsibility. This study aims to investigate how university students concern themselves with global and domestic catastrophic environmental events and to examine how global and domestic environmental concerns mediate the effect of environmental knowledge and attitudes on university students' environmental responsibility. Students of King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi in Bangkok, Thailand were selected as the participants. A simple random technique was applied to select the research participants. Questionnaire surveys with 863 students were carried out during September-October 2019. A path analysis was performed to test how global and local environmental concerns mediate the effect of environmental knowledge and attitudes on university students' environmental responsibility. The results demonstrated that domestic environmental concerns, taken alone, contributed less to the students' sense of environmental responsibility. Domestic environmental concerns had a stronger effect on environmental responsibility when taken together with global environmental concerns. In addition, both domestic and global environmental concerns could help transform environmental knowledge and attitudes into environmental responsibility. Only environmental attitudes had no direct effect on responsibility. These results show that domestic and global catastrophic environmental events could raise students' levels of concern for the environment, and, ultimately, enhance their sense of responsibility to protect the environment.

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The impact of electronic environmental knowledge on the environmental behaviors of people

Cited by 124 publications

References 45 publications

On linguistic relativity and pro-environmental attitudes in tourism

On linguistic relativity and pro-environmental attitudes in tourism

Effect of Domestic and Global Environmental Events on Environmental Concern and Environmental Responsibility among University Students

Effect of Domestic and Global Environmental Events on Environmental Concern and Environmental Responsibility among University Students

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