The impact of psychological factors on farmers’ intentions to reuse agricultural biomass waste for carbon emission abatement

Jiang, Linli; Zhang, Junbiao; Wang, H. Holly; Zhang, Lu; He, Kebin

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.04.040

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“…Consumers with positive subjective norms often have positive behavioral intentions [70]. Subjective norms promote the intention to recycle agricultural waste in China [77] and encourage the behavioral intention to recycle plastic waste in developing countries [78]. For this reason, the following hypothesis was formulated.…”

Section: Subjective Normsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Consumer Intention to Participate in E-Waste Collection Programs: A Study of Smartphone Waste in Indonesia

2021

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Indonesia is a developing country with a low-level e-waste management system based on a limited number of informal initiatives. E-waste requires proper management procedures, which involve the design of a reverse logistics management network. Consumers play a critical role in such a network, because the network runs when they willingly participate as suppliers of waste. This paper applies the Theory of Planned Behavior framework and extends it using Reverse Logistics drivers, the Value Belief Norm Theory, and facility accessibility to explain consumer intention to participate in e-waste collection programs. A survey was conducted on smartphone users in Indonesia, with a total of 324 valid questionnaires. The results showed that government drivers, facility accessibility, and personal attitudes significantly influence consumer intentions. Environmental concern has a positive influence on consumer intentions through the variables of the Theory of Planned Behavior and perceived behavioral control through government drivers. This study shows the need for integration, because the variables reinforce each other. However, neither economic drivers nor subjective norms significantly influence consumer intentions. This finding distinguishes Indonesia from other countries, especially developed countries, in that e-waste collection programs have not become part of the culture in Indonesia. For this reason, Indonesia needs regulations, as the most influential variable, to regulate the implementation of such a program.

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Section: Subjective Normsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Consumer Intention to Participate in E-Waste Collection Programs: A Study of Smartphone Waste in Indonesia

2021

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“…Subjective norm (SN) denotes that a person's opinions are based on influential people living around them (López-Mosquera 2016). Probability of performing a specific behavior increases when a high perception of SN exists (Jiang et al 2018). It is proposed that livestock herders will adopt climate change measures in the presence of positive SN, having desire to win social approval for their action.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In order to highlight the role of psychological drivers, theory of planned behavior (TPB) is commonly used and effectively applied to elaborate one's adoption behavior and intentions in the agriculture sector (Zeweld et al 2017;Bozorgparvar et al 2018;Jiang et al 2018;Despotović et al 2019). The TPB (Ajzen 1991) presumes that any behavior can be predicted from one's intention and intention is influenced by three psychological constructs: attitude relates to definite behavior, abstract norms from influential people about specified behavior, and ones' perceptions about own capabilities on that behavior (Ajzen 1991;Daxini et al 2019;Silva et al 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

Modeling smallholder livestock herders’ intentions to adopt climate smart practices: An extended theory of planned behavior

Faisal

Xia

Akhtar³

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Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Climate change is persistently causing adverse effects to the agriculture sector of developing countries, specifically in Asia. Pakistan is no exception to this effect and is ranked among the top 10 countries, which are most vulnerable to climate change. A huge upcoming challenge is to sustain an equilibrium among production and environmental protection. In this context, adaptation to climate change is considered as a win-win strategy for agriculture sectors in developing countries. However, numerous studies have focused on current farm-level adaptation while a scant interest has been shown on the role of physiological factors in the process of shaping small livestock herders' intentions towards environmental enrichment measures. A possible explanation of their lagging intentions is particular significance as they may comply with requisite climate adaptation measures or not. For deeper understanding, the current study investigates different psychological factors that affect the small livestock herder's intentions on adopting climate smart practices by using theory of planned behavior (TPB) with additional constructs (moral norms, risk perception, and social attributes). To this end, 405 small livestock herders from Punjab, Pakistan, were selected on the basis of multistage random sampling. The results of structural equation model showed that all constructs accounted for 57% of the variances in small livestock herders' adoption intentions. The outcome of this research offers a new indication regarding the interrelationship of numerous variables which are crucial to understand behavioral changes and psychological interventions. Overall attitude was the most prominent construct in the extended TPB model, which is mainly influenced by risk perception awareness. The results suggest that veterinary experts and extension agents should focus on psychological factors to explore different prospects to increase the involvement of livestock herders in environmental enrichment measures with little effort rather than tackling with traditional practices because it will be more likely to affect people's consideration of the external obstructions to act. Findings also offer public and private intervention for enabling technical and policy environment and strengthen social networks to keep livestock herders on track of updates of running government policies to ensure them to adopt climate change measures for their prosperous future.

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“…In this regard, some scholars provide evidence that respondents' personal characteristics, family economic status, agricultural management characteristics [36], cognitive and policy environmental variables [37] are suitable for explaining farmers' environmental protection behavior. These variables can improve the interpretation and prediction ability of the model [38,39]. Therefore, this study chooses individual, family, and agricultural management characteristics; cognitive variables; and policy variables to examine farmers' preference for compensation methods.…”

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‘Get a Fish’ vs. ‘Get a Fishing Skill’: Farmers’ Preferred Compensation Methods to Control Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution

Yan

Yao

2020

IJERPH

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Ecological compensation is an important means for controlling agricultural nonpoint source pollution, and compensation methods comprise an essential part of the compensation policy for mitigating this form of pollution. Farmers’ choice of compensation methods affects their response to compensation policies as well as the effects of pollution control and ecological compensation efficiency. This study divides ecological compensation methods into two distinct philosophies—the “get a fish” method (GFM) and “get a fishing skill” method (GFSM)—based on policy objectives, to determine farmers’ choice between the two methods and the factors influencing this choice. Furthermore, by analyzing survey data of 632 farmers in the Ankang and Hanzhong cities in China and using the multivariate probit model, the study determines farmers’ preferred option among four specific compensation modes of GFM and GFSM. The three main results are as follows. (1) The probability of farmers choosing GFM is 82%, while that of choosing GFSM is 51%. Therefore, GFM should receive more attention in compensation policies relating to agricultural nonpoint source pollution control. (2) Of the four compensation modes, the study finds a substitution effect between farmers’ choice of capital and technology compensations, capital and project compensations, material and project compensations, while there is a complementary relationship between the choice of material and technology compensations. Therefore, when constructing the compensation policy basket, attention should be given to achieving an organic combination of different compensation methods. (3) Highly educated, young, and male farmers with lower part-time employment, large cultivated land, and a high level of eco-friendly technology adoption and policy understanding are more likely to choose GFSM. Hence, the government should prioritize promoting GFSM for farmers with these characteristics, thereby creating a demonstration effect to encourage transition from GFM to GFSM.

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The impact of psychological factors on farmers’ intentions to reuse agricultural biomass waste for carbon emission abatement

Cited by 52 publications

References 44 publications

Consumer Intention to Participate in E-Waste Collection Programs: A Study of Smartphone Waste in Indonesia

Consumer Intention to Participate in E-Waste Collection Programs: A Study of Smartphone Waste in Indonesia

Modeling smallholder livestock herders’ intentions to adopt climate smart practices: An extended theory of planned behavior

‘Get a Fish’ vs. ‘Get a Fishing Skill’: Farmers’ Preferred Compensation Methods to Control Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution

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