Encouraging Pro Environmental Behaviour

• Author : Wokje Abrahamse
• Publisher : Academic Press
• Release : 23 January 2019

Encouraging Pro-Environmental Behavior: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why examines the main drivers of human behavior related to environmental sustainability and how we can encourage environmental behavior change in humans. The book explores the underlying barriers and enablers of environmental behavior and outlines key theoretical advances from psychology to improve understanding. It then uses theory-based research in the development of behavior change interventions to critically evaluate empirical evidence on the effectiveness of those interventions. This book will help inform and

• Author : Wokje Abrahamse
• Publisher : Academic Press
• Release : 07 February 2019

Encouraging Pro-Environmental Behavior: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why examines the main drivers of human behavior related to environmental sustainability and how we can encourage environmental behavior change in humans. The book explores the underlying barriers and enablers of environmental behavior and outlines key theoretical advances from psychology to improve understanding. It then uses theory-based research in the development of behavior change interventions to critically evaluate empirical evidence on the effectiveness of those interventions. This book will help inform and

• Author : David Curtis
• Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Release : 06 October 2020

Ecoarts practice is evolving quickly as a practice. While much of it is made by individual artists working alone, artists are increasingly combining into multi-artist collectives, and collaborating with scientists, sustainability professionals, industry or the community to develop artworks with quite far-reaching effects. This book describes an extraordinary range of artistic practices pitched to encourage people to adopt pro-environmental behaviours by provoking, persuading, providing information, creating empathy for nature or by being built into sustainability practices themselves. It brings together 28

• Author : Victoria K. Wells,Diana Gregory-Smith,Danae Manika
• Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
• Release : 29 June 2018

This Research Handbook brings together leading academics of employee pro-environmental behaviour to highlight the key features and challenges of this growing field. The international contributors draw on studies from across the methodological spectrum, examine employee behaviour and discuss how pro-environmental behaviour can be fostered and encouraged, inspecting the impact for organisations.

• Author : Gianluca Grilli,John A. Curtis
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 18 May 2022

Many urgent environmental problems can be mitigated with more sustainable use of resource. An acknowledgement of which is a growing interest among policy practitioners in encouraging pro-environmental behaviour change initiatives. The effect of anthropic pressure on the environment is long known and the first pro-environmental behaviour studies date back to the middle 1970s. Despite this, the scientific literature has not yet answered several questions: what are the most suitable ways to encourage behavioural changes? What are the barriers to project

• Author : Shane Fudge,Michael Peters,Steven M. Hoffman,Walter Wehrmeyer
• Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
• Release : 29 November 2013

This fascinating book will prove a thought-provoking read for academics, researchers and students in the fields of environmental studies _ particularly sustainability _ and public policy. Practitioners and policymakers concerned with achieving sustaina

• Author : Jenny Haberer
• Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
• Release : 01 September 2012

The underlying purpose of this paper is to analyse determining factors of responsible environmental behaviour, which serves as a formative evaluation prior to implementation This comprises the objectives of discussing the project strategy and aims, as well as analysing the target audience's individual behaviour and conditioning factors deriving from the external situation that require consideration in the design of the project's implementation strategy. A further implication is to clarify how present theories help to understand factors inhibiting or enabling responsible

• Author : Linda Steg,Agnes E. van den Berg,Judith I. M. de Groot
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release : 30 April 2012

"Explores the environment's effects on human wellbeing and behaviour, factors influencing environmental behaviour and ways of encouraging pro-environmental action"--

• Author : Richard Coles,Zoe Millman
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 07 November 2013

Well-being is now firmly established as an overarching theme of key concern to all professionals that work, manage or design the environment. However, well-being is a complex multi-dimensional issue rooted in the ways that we encounter, perceive and interpret the environment. No single discipline can claim to have sufficient knowledge to fully explain the types of interactions that occur, therefore there is a need to draw together a wide range of professions who are exploring the consequences of their actions

• Author : Aleksandra Gąsior
• Publisher : Ubiquity Press
• Release : 17 April 2019

This book presents a practical approach to pro-environmental challenges faced by companies in the process of restructuring. It contains a broad variety of case studies from different economic sectors, and small and large businesses, in four European countries: Ukraine, Romania, Germany and Poland. The studies are the results of surveys of companies that had either already restructured or were planning to, and reveal both the weaknesses and strengths in these practices. The book is divided into three parts: explorations of

• Author : Christian A. Klöckner
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 30 June 2015

The environment is part of everyone's life but there are difficulties in communicating complex environmental problems, such as climate change, to a lay audience. In this book Klöckner defines environmental communication, providing a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the issues involved in encouraging pro-environmental behaviour.

• Author : Sami Ullah
• Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Release : 18 May 2022

The case study examines how eco-friendly behaviour can be promoted within an organisation. The University of Leicester was taken as a case study in order to understand the factors essential for the promotion of green behaviour within an organisation. These factors are identified and grouped into three categories: internal factors, external factors and behavioural factors. Once these factors were established; barriers to the promotion of green behaviour within an organisation were investigated. Two different kinds of barriers to the promotion

• Author : Ana Paula Bortoleto
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 27 August 2014

As prosperity levels rise, so too does the number of products and services being consumed. For policy makers in waste management facing a growing challenge, it is vital to understand the complex relationship between waste prevention policies and individual behaviour regarding waste generation. This book examines that interplay, taking a close look at the role of motivation, difficulties, values and constraints. The first part of the book explores the theoretical framework, policy, barriers and facilitators for waste prevention behaviour. The

• Author : C. Michael Hall
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 24 February 2014

Social Marketing is the utilisation of marketing principles and methods to encourage individual and organisational behaviour change for the public good. Traditionally the domain of government it is increasingly also utilised by non-government and non-profit organisations and other institutions of civil society as a non-regulatory means to achieve policy and public good goals. At a time when concerns over tourism's contribution to undesirable environmental, economic and social change is greater than ever, social marketing strategies are important for encouraging more

• Author : John Fien,Helen Sykes,David Yencken
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 02 September 2003

This important book explores the interaction of global environmental discourses and local traditions and practices in twelve countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Based upon two parallel groups of studies, reviewing cultural influences in individual countries, and the attitudes of young people across the region, it has important implications for environmental policy and education.