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Greening due to environmental education? Environmental knowledge, attitudes, consumer behavior and everyday pro-environmental activities of Hungarian high school and university students

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In this article, the authors explored the relationship strength between environmental education and environmental knowledge, attitudes and reported actual behavior of university and high school students, providing a comparative questionnaire survey analysis which is unique in the literature.
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This article is published in Journal of Cleaner Production.The article was published on 2013-06-01. It has received 563 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Environmental adult education & Environmental studies.

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Environmental knowledge and other variables affecting pro-environmental behaviour: comparison of university students from emerging and advanced countries

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of environmental knowledge on pro-environmental behavior among university students from countries with different levels of economic development (USA, Spain, Mexico and Brazil) was analyzed.
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Green products: an exploratory study on the consumer behaviour in emerging economies of the East

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the influence of consumption values on sustainable consumer behaviour across consumer segments with preferential green choice approach difference and found that price sensitivity is high regardless of their choice preference.
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Promoting employee's proenvironmental behavior through green human resource management practices

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effects of green HRM practices (green recruitment and selection, green training and development, green performance management and appraisal, green reward and compensation, and green empowerment) on employee's proenvironmental behavior.
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Encouraging sustainability in the workplace: a survey on the pro-environmental behaviour of university employees

TL;DR: In this article, two groups of factors were identified which could predict pro-environmental behaviour in the workplace: internal factors and external factors, and the model was tested among employees of a green university in the Netherlands.
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Examining green consumerism motivational drivers: does premium price and demographics matter to green purchasing?

TL;DR: In this paper, a survey was conducted to determine the motivational factors that influence green purchasing intention and simultaneously assess the moderator roles of the premium price and demographic characteristics, given that consumers' degree of greenness varies.
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From Intentions to Actions: A Theory of Planned Behavior

Icek Ajzen
TL;DR: There appears to be general agreement among social psychologists that most human behavior is goal-directed (e. g., Heider, 1958 ; Lewin, 1951), and human social behavior can best be described as following along lines of more or less well-formulated plans.
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Mind the Gap: why do people act environmentally and what are the barriers to pro-environmental behavior?

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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Analysis and synthesis of research on responsible environmental behavior: A meta-analysis.

TL;DR: In this paper, a meta-analysis of environmental behavior research was conducted to determine which variables or variables appear to be most influential in motivating individuals to take responsible environmental action, and the following variables were found to be associated with responsible environmental behavior: knowledge of issues, knowledge of action strategies, locus of control, attitudes, verbal commitment, and an individual's sense of responsibility.
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Twenty years after Hines, Hungerford, and Tomera: A new meta-analysis of psycho-social determinants of pro-environmental behaviour

TL;DR: In this paper, a meta-analysis on psycho-social determinants of pro-environmental behavior is presented, which is based on information from a total of 57 samples and finds mean correlations between psychosocial variables and proenvironmental behaviour similar to those reported by Hines et al.
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