Car attitudes in children from different socio-economic backgrounds in the Netherlands

Kopnina, Helen; Williams, Melanie

doi:10.1016/j.tranpol.2012.07.010

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“…A high share of elementary school children are being driven by their parents (Arbour-Nicitopoulos et al, 2012) and even though these shares decrease in secondary school, the prevalence and importance associated with the car as a travel mode to school and leisure activities is far from negligible even in bicycle-oriented countries (Van Goeverden and De Boer, 2013;Sigurdardottir et al, 2013). Several studies conducted in Europe, among others in bicycleoriented countries, show that, when asked about their future, both children and adolescents indicated their intentions to obtain a driving license and own a car as adults (Baslington, 2009;Line et al, 2012;Kopnina and Williams, 2013;Sigurdardottir et al, 2013).…”

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The motivation underlying adolescents׳ intended time-frame for driving licensure and car ownership: A socio-ecological approach

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a b s t r a c tThis study focuses on the adolescents' intended time-frame for obtaining a driving license and purchasing a car, as the delay of these decisions will likely affect the amount of travel and transport externalities. Semi-structured interviews with 50 Danish adolescents were analyzed by means of deductive-inductive thematic narrative analysis based on the socio-ecological approach. The results show three groups in line with the market-diffusion model: intended early car users, intended early license holders and later car users, and intended late license holders and car users. The first group are car enthusiasts who associate cars with high instrumental, affective, symbolic, and relational values, have car-oriented social networks, and imagine a car-oriented lifestyle. The second group are car pragmatists, who associate cars with high instrumental and relational values, perceive car expenses as a barrier, and imagine a car-oriented lifestyle only in the long-term. The third group are car skeptics, who have low interest in cars and imagine a cycling-oriented future. Policy implications concern (i) promoting sharedresponsibility among individuals, public bodies, communities and policy makers towards a sustainable future, (ii) applying a policy-package comprising complementary policy measures to target the three identified groups, (iii) relying on social networks for knowledge propagation and success of policy measures and educational campaigns, and (iv) promoting a tangible future vision based on sustainable modes.

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“…Previous studies of the environmental attitudes of Dutch upper elementary school children and their parents to consumption (Kopnina, 2011a(Kopnina, , 2011c(Kopnina, , 2013a and transportation (Kopnina, 2011b;Kopnina and Williams, 2012) have demonstrated that the environmental attitudes are not always consistent across generational or socio-economic boundaries. For example, it appeared that children from the wellto-do families with parents who own at least one car exhibited more environmental awareness than children from the lower social status families whose parents did not have cars.…”

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Animal Cards, supermarket stunts, and the World Wide Fund for Nature: Exploring the educational value of a business–environmental non-governmental organization partnership for sustainable consumption

Kopnina

2016

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This article explores cooperation between a commercial supermarket chain and an environmental non-governmental organization linking it to consumer perception of the “The Super Animals” collectable cards promotion initiative. The case study focuses on one particular joint project involving Animal Cards that was initiated by the supermarket Albert Heijn and the World Wide Fund for Nature in The Netherlands. Based on this case, environmental non-governmental organizations’ strategic choices in the context of contesting discourses of sustainability and consumption, as well as implications for environmental education, are addressed. This article combines three strands of the literature – on sustainable consumption, on strategic cooperation between commercial companies and environmental non-governmental organizations and on environmental education. It is argued that the Animal Cards initiative presents an ambiguous case by both attempting to enhance environmental awareness and promoting consumption, opening up questions about the value of such cooperative ventures to the objectives of environmental education. It is concluded that cross-sector partnerships have the potential to lead to improvements in corporate social responsibility and environmental awareness among consumers but simultaneously pose the danger of undermining the critical stance toward consumption.

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“…A number of studies in Lancet, a leading medical journal, demonstrate that in the Netherlands poor air quality correlates with incidences of respiratory illness and death (Brunekreef andHolgate 2002, Hoek et al 2002). The studies of children's perception of cars show a tendency to discount the safety risks or relationship to health associated with cars, as well as complex processes of socialisation in which children are "initiated" into the driving culture (Nillson and Küller 2000, Kopnina 2011, Kopnina and Williams 2012.…”

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Vehicular air pollution and asthma: implications for education for health and environmental sustainability

Kopnina

2016

Local Environment

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Studies show a direct relationship between occurrence of asthma and increases of particulate matter in the air. Private transportation is found to be a significant contributor to this problem. The objective of this article is to explore this link between air pollution, asthma and vehicular dependency in order to provide recommendations for health and transport policy. This article focuses on the survey of literature on the relationship between vehicular air pollution and asthma; combining it with the literature on vehicular dependency or 'car culture' in the global context and in The Netherlands. This article exposes the imbalance of power between patient groups and polluting industries, and the government failure to protect the weaker party can be explained by corporate pressures. It will be argued that since air pollution is tied to the corporate support for the car industry and vested interests in promoting a 'car culture', strategic policy that claims to be concerned with public health should explicitly link the present pattern of mobility to public health. This article concludes with a recommendation for raising environmental health awareness by explicitly linking vehicular dependency to respiratory health through a combination of holistic and citizenship education.

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Car attitudes in children from different socio-economic backgrounds in the Netherlands

Cited by 20 publications

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The motivation underlying adolescents׳ intended time-frame for driving licensure and car ownership: A socio-ecological approach

The motivation underlying adolescents׳ intended time-frame for driving licensure and car ownership: A socio-ecological approach

Animal Cards, supermarket stunts, and the World Wide Fund for Nature: Exploring the educational value of a business–environmental non-governmental organization partnership for sustainable consumption

Vehicular air pollution and asthma: implications for education for health and environmental sustainability

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