Do monetary and non-monetary incentives influence environmental attitudes and behavior? Evidence from an experimental analysis

Rajapaksa, Darshana; Gifford, Robert; Torgler, Benno; Garcia-Valiñas, Marian; Athukorala, Wasantha; Managi, Shunsuke; Wilson, Clevo

doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2019.05.034

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“…The policy area where incentives are used are mostly waste, energy and water and are often effective compared to control groups and other types of treatment [16,46,105]. This is consistent with other meta-analytic studies that found significant effects of incentives for energy and waste sectors [27,57].…”

Section: Incentivessupporting

confidence: 83%

“…material compensation for individuals that engage in the desired behaviour. Monetary incentives relate to cash bonuses, which can take the form of direct payments, discount fees or potential wins at lotteries, whereas non-monetary incentives are gifts or coupons that cannot be directly exchanged for cash [105]. While incentives are acknowledged to be effective for an initial behaviour change, their sustained effect over time is still debated.…”

Section: Incentivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Encouraging pro-environmental behaviours: A review of methods and approaches

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2021

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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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 implementation? What are the long run effects of behavioural change projects? With this in mind, this contribution offers a review of the existing literature on behavioural change case studies and provides a categorisation of treatments and guidelines for successful project implementation. Five different approaches have been considered: education and awareness, social influence, relationship building, incentives and nudges, which have been used in experimental studies. On balance the case studies suggest that all approaches are suitable but their selection should be based on specific objectives and target population. Interestingly, the choice of the behaviour to change is rarely discussed before project implementation. This analysis also highlights that little is known on whether behaviour change projects achieve sustained pro-environmental behavioural change over time.

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Section: Incentivessupporting

confidence: 83%

Section: Incentivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Encouraging pro-environmental behaviours: A review of methods and approaches

Grilli

Curtis

2021

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

134

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“…z asymetrii informa-cyjnej, braku wykształcenia, problemu głównego agenta -ktoś inny płaci za zasoby, a ktoś inny z nich korzysta, lub sprzeczności interesów (Bird i Hernández, 2012;Gillingham, Harding i Rapson, 2012). Ponadto, po wycofaniu bodźców finansowych, zmiana zachowania wygasa (Abrahamse, Steg, Vlek i Rothengatter, 2005, Rajapaksa i in., 2019.…”

Section: Psychologiczne Determinanty Zmian Konsumpcji Energii Elektryunclassified

“…Według niektórych badań bodźce pozafinansowe mają większy wpływ na zachowanie, a zmiany utrzymują się dłużej w czasie (Rajapaksa i in., 2019). W tym przypadku obserwuje się wpływ czynników takich jak wartości, przekonania, postawy, normy osobiste i społeczne, poczucie odpowiedzialności, poczucie kontroli (np.…”

Section: Psychologiczne Determinanty Zmian Konsumpcji Energii Elektryunclassified

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Psychologiczne aspekty zarządzania popytem na energię elektryczną

Gołębiowska¹

2020

Prace Naukowe Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu

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Streszczenie: Celem artykułu jest przegląd literatury na temat psychologicznych aspektów zarządzania popytem na energię elektryczną. Zarządzanie popytem stanowi szansę dla poprawy efektywności energetycznej. Podsumowanie uwzględnia teorię wartości-przekonania-normy, teorię aktywizacji norm Schwartza, teorię planowanego zachowania, model faz działania Rubicon, wpływ informacji zwrotnej. W omawianych pracach, wykorzystując metody eksperymentalne oraz badania terenowe, wykazano zależności między zmianą zużycia energii elektrycznej w gospodarstwach domowych a takimi czynnikami natury psychologicznej, jak: normy, przekonania, wartości, rodzaj motywacji, postawy, spostrzegana kontrola. Podsumowane wyniki badań pomagają zrozumieć zachowanie konsumentów, a w konsekwencji projektować skuteczniejsze programy zarządzania popytem. Jest to pierwsze zestawienie publikacji na temat psychologicznej perspektywy zarządzania popytem.

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An evaluation of public initiatives to change behaviours that affect water quality

Grilli

Curtis

2022

Env Pol Gov

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Pollution and environmental depletion are often caused by human behaviours, where if behaviours were modified, environmental pressure could be substantially reduced. Many public programmes aim to influence people to change their unsustainable behaviours but few undertake ex post evaluations of behavioural change programmes. This paper undertakes an evaluation of a 5year programme to understand whether community engagement activities lead to more sustainable practices. Using a treatment and control experiment, the research investigates whether programme participants are representative of the wider population, whether participation leads to sustainable practices, whether pro-environmental behaviours are sustained over time, and the relative effectiveness of different types of events on individual behaviours. Overall, results suggest that water engagement event participants are more likely to adopt sustainable behaviours, however attendees only represent a small cohort of the wider population, which possibly hinders a wider adoption of good practices. With respect to individual behaviours, different outcomes were detected for different behaviours, which suggests that not all behaviours were equally amenable to change. When comparing the impact of different events, events that are focused on building community ties were more successful than events with simple provision of information. Finally, new pro-environmental behaviours tend to be abandoned after a period of time, therefore reengagement at regular time intervals is advised.

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Do monetary and non-monetary incentives influence environmental attitudes and behavior? Evidence from an experimental analysis

Cited by 57 publications

References 49 publications

Encouraging pro-environmental behaviours: A review of methods and approaches

Encouraging pro-environmental behaviours: A review of methods and approaches

Psychologiczne aspekty zarządzania popytem na energię elektryczną

An evaluation of public initiatives to change behaviours that affect water quality

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