Place attachment: How far have we come in the last 40 years?

The measurement of place attachment: Personal, community, and environmental connections

Highlighting the important role of marketing in encouraging sustainable consumption, the current research presents a review of the academic literature from marketing and behavioral science that exa...

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0022242919825649

How to SHIFT Consumer Behaviors to be More Sustainable: A Literature Review and Guiding Framework:

Testing the dimensionality of place attachment and its relationships with place satisfaction and pro-environmental behaviours: A structural equation modelling approach

To help mitigate the negative effects of climate change, citizens’ attitudes and behaviors must be better understood. However, little is known about which factors predict engagement with climate change, and which messaging strategies are most effective. A community sample of 324 residents from three regions in British Columbia read information either about a climate change impact relevant to their local area, a more global one, or, in a control condition, no message. Participants indicated the extent of their climate change engagement, the strength of their attachment to their local area, and demographic information. Three significant unique predictors of climate change engagement emerged: place attachment, receiving the local message, and gender (female). These results provide empirical support for some previously proposed barriers to climate action and suggest guidelines for effective climate change communication.

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Yuko Howes

Papers

Disruption to place attachment and the protection of restorative environments: A wind energy case study