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Does pro-environmental behaviour affect carbon emissions?
Andrea Tabi,Andrea Tabi +1 more
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In this paper, the authors explored the effect of pro-environmental behavior on CO2 emissions in relation to heating, electricity and transport activities in the residential sector and found that people who consciously act in a proenvironmental way do not necessarily have lower CO 2 emissions more than those who do not undertake environmental activities.About:
This article is published in Energy Policy.The article was published on 2013-12-01. It has received 43 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Greenhouse gas.read more
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The limits of energy sufficiency: A review of the evidence for rebound effects and negative spillovers from behavioural change
TL;DR: In this paper, the current state of knowledge on rebound and spillovers from energy sufficiency actions, and on time-use rebounds from downshifting is reviewed, and it concludes that rebound effects can erode a significant proportion of the anticipated energy and emission savings from sufficiency action.
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Good Intents, but Low Impacts: Diverging Importance of Motivational and Socioeconomic Determinants Explaining Pro-Environmental Behavior, Energy Use, and Carbon Footprint:
TL;DR: In this paper, the main drivers of environmentally significant behavior were investigated and the importance of motivational aspects was stressed. But, the results yielded contradictory results as to the main driving factors.
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The Importance of Environmental Knowledge for Private and Public Sphere Pro-Environmental Behavior: Modifying the Value-Belief-Norm Theory
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reveal how specific environmental knowledge influenced pro-environmental behavior and suggest that it is important to educate people about local and global environmental problems, about the impact of behavior on the environment not only in private but also in the public sphere, and to foster the ecocentrism, as well.
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Exploring the implications of lifestyle change in 2 °C mitigation scenarios using the IMAGE integrated assessment model
TL;DR: In this paper, a set of lifestyle change measures for residential energy use, mobility and waste management in the integrated assessment model is implemented, and the implications of these lifestyle changes in a business-as-usual and 2°C climate mitigation reference case is analyzed.
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Modeling the Carbon Consequences of Pro-environmental Consumer Behavior
Rosa Duarte,Kuishuang Feng,Klaus Hubacek,Julio Sánchez-Chóliz,Cristina Sarasa,Cristina Sarasa,Laixiang Sun,Laixiang Sun,Laixiang Sun +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of improvements in environmental awareness, and of changes induced by regulations and carbon taxes are evaluated using a recent social and environmental survey of Spanish households, and the results suggest that reductions in carbon dioxide, methane, and sulphur dioxide emissions may be compatible with increases in income and reductions in unemployment.
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Understanding Attitudes and Predicting Social Behavior
Icek Ajzen,Martin Fishbein +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the author explains "theory and reasoned action" model and then applies the model to various cases in attitude courses, such as self-defense and self-care.
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Mind the Gap: why do people act environmentally and what are the barriers to pro-environmental behavior?
Anja Kollmuss,Julian Agyeman +1 more
TL;DR: A number of theoretical frameworks have been developed to explain the gap between the possession of environmental knowledge and environmental awareness, and displaying pro-environmental behavior as discussed by the authors, but no definitive explanation has yet been found.
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New Environmental Theories: Toward a Coherent Theory of Environmentally Significant Behavior
TL;DR: A conceptual framework for advancing theories of environmentally significant individual behavior and reports on the attempts of the author's research group and others to develop such a theory is developed in this article. But, it does not consider the effect of environmental concern on individual behavior.
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Value Orientations, Gender, and Environmental Concern:
TL;DR: In this paper, a social-psychological model is developed to examine the proposition that environmentalism represents a new way of thinking, and it assumes that action in support of environmental quality may derive from any of three value orientations: egoistic, social-altruistic, or biospheric and that gender may be implicated in the relation between these orientations and behavior.
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Green identity, green living? The role of pro-environmental self-identity in determining consistency across diverse pro-environmental behaviours
TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of pro-environmental self-identity on consistency across a range of behaviours was found to be a significant behavioural determinant over and above theory of planned behaviour variables for carbon offsetting behaviour.
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