Urban sustainability and individual behaviour

Müller-Eie, Daniela; Bjørnø, L.

doi:10.2495/sd150031

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“…To the extent that the markets come to focus on sustainability practices of corporations, new, meaningful tools for such disclosure need to be developed. There is much written about carbon pollution generation and control (Lu & Abeysekera, ; Meng et al ., ; Rahman et al, ; Doda et al, ; Muller‐Eie & Bjorno, , Qiu et al, ), but nothing about water. Carbon emissions impact the warming of the atmosphere and the hydrological cycle, shifting rainfall and related weather patterns from one area of the globe to the other, impacting crop yields through the creation of historically severe droughts sometimes and extraordinarily heavy rainfalls at other times.…”

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Using Formal Concept Analysis to Examine Water Disclosure in Corporate Social Responsibility Reports

Kleinman

Kuei

Lee

2017

Corp Soc Responsibility Env

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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) water disclosures vary in content, leading to concern about the quality and extent of such disclosures. This paper employs formal concept analysis (FCA) to examine water reporting of selected companies in the US food and beverage industry that have followed the water guidelines set forth by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and in the disclosure guidelines of the CEO Water Mandate. Assessments of water consumption and water withdrawal were cited more often in our sample firms' CSR reports. FCA results also identify the major focus of our sample firms as setting sustainable water management goals and water quality strategy. Other important issues included leadership, partnership, and employee involvement. While the FCA text mining tool is demonstrated using water‐related behaviors here, it can be used to identify continuous improvement opportunities and examine many other issues of interest to corporate stakeholders in other industries and communities worldwide. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment

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Using Formal Concept Analysis to Examine Water Disclosure in Corporate Social Responsibility Reports

Kleinman

Kuei

Lee

2017

Corp Soc Responsibility Env

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“…Barriers can be external and objective (no bike lane), or internal in the social range (majority behaves different), and the psychological/personal range (habits, lack of courage, missing know-how). If rational (social) and emotional (psychological/personal) arguments contradict, we often decide emotionally (I agree that public transportation is good for the environment but I do not feel safe in it) [3].…”

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Potential of Public Open Spaces to Motivate Their Users to Engage in Pro-Sustainable Action

Dietrich

2020

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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People and their habits, perceptions and actions, are critical to reaching sustainable development goals. This paper investigates the role of public urban spaces in motivating their users to pro-sustainable action. Psychological literature is used to select methods of how to motivate people. It describes the triggers for our activities. Of first priority is the target that activities should not have detrimental consequences for us personally or for our family and close friends. Of secondary priority are activities that might lead to an improvement in quality of life, but here the decision is not always clear and we often hesitate to act. We are also guided by orienting our activities according to common rules, norms and standards. To be regarded as a good citizen can be a strong motive. The adaptation of these motives to sustainability shows several potentialities while also avoiding detrimental consequences. Here the circle of those involved is much larger-it comprises the entirety of mankind and also future generations. Because we do not see the immediate advantage to us and our inner circle, we may hesitate to take important actions. These methods are applied to the special case of public open spaces where the fact that they are a common good can be used to advantage. The basic principle is to utilize and develop positive emotions tied to sustainable urban interventions and to avoid reactance effects. Detailed recommendations for interventions (fostered by an administrative body) are derived. Furthermore, the paper provides policy guidelines to increase involvement of citizens through tailor-made strategies by the activation of cooperative mechanisms in public urban spaces. Selected examples of two cities, Hamburg and Nice, were collected and analyzed according to these recommendations.

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“…less travel, less consumption, less energy use). In March 2015 another conference paper was submitted that reviews several behaviour change theories [2]. We find that by combining a holistic understanding of urban sustainability strategies and generating awareness for the high relevance of individual behaviour and its factors, it is possible to assess and monitor urban sustainability strategies from a different (more holistic) perspective.…”

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The implementation of urban sustainability strategies: Theoretical and methodological implications for researching behaviour change

Müller-Eie¹,

Bjørnø²

2017

Int. J. SDP

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Implementing urban sustainability strategies has proven to be difficult. This paper aims at developing a holistic understanding of the urban sustainability concept with the help of a conceptual model, as well as offering a framework for understanding and researching the implementation of urban sustainability strategies. Here, individual behaviour change is understood as one of the main objectives of such strategies. Through a conceptual model, four types of opposing and sometimes contradictory relationships are identified: (1) between global aims and local implementation, (2) between institutional pressure and the behaviour of individuals, (3) between strategic measures and personal consequences and (4) between attitudes and behaviour. These relationships are discussed in order to illustrate stalling factors in urban sustainability implementation.Looking at behaviour change as a major goal of urban sustainability implementation, several social and individual behavioural theories are reviewed in order to construct a holistic and a compound model of the dynamics of behavioural change. By revealing a dual implementation process, consisting of provision on one side and choice on the other, we demarcate several important aspects for realising and researching urban sustainability strategies and their effectiveness. A more holistic way of assessing and monitoring the implementation of urban sustainability strategies is also proposed. The paper argues that rather than looking at the changes in the urban population's behaviour as a result, we must view them as an internal and essential sub-concept of urban sustainability.

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Urban sustainability and individual behaviour

Cited by 6 publications

References 24 publications

Using Formal Concept Analysis to Examine Water Disclosure in Corporate Social Responsibility Reports

Using Formal Concept Analysis to Examine Water Disclosure in Corporate Social Responsibility Reports

Potential of Public Open Spaces to Motivate Their Users to Engage in Pro-Sustainable Action

The implementation of urban sustainability strategies: Theoretical and methodological implications for researching behaviour change

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