Facilitating Pro-environmental Behavior: The Role of Pessimism and Anthropocentric Environmental Values

Kaida, Naoko; Kaida, Kosuke

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“…Values are the basis of environmentalism (Stern, 2000) and a stable source of ongoing PEB (Steg, 2016). Both ecocentric and anthropocentric values are associated with PEB (Kaida and Kaida, 2016) and they slightly increase awareness of environmental problems (Nordlund and Garvill, 2003). PEBs like reduction and reuse behavior are determined by a mixture of values, knowledge, and concerns (Barr, 2007).…”

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“…In doing so, it can be viewed as a further way, beside beside the mainstream economic approaches (stated and revealed preferences), which are based on a purely anthropocentric perspective. Overall, studies indicate that PEB impacts positively on the intention to engage in future PEB (Hartmann et al, 2017) and that PEB is associated with higher subjective well-being (e.g., Villacorta et al, 2003;Brown and Kasser, 2005;Jacob et al, 2009;Welsch and Kühling, 2010;Suárez-Varela et al, 2016;Kaida and Kaida, 2016;Binder and Blankenberg, 2016;Schmitt et al, 2018).…”

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On the Determinants of Pro-Environmental Behavior: A Literature Review and Guide for the Empirical Economist

Blankenberg

Alhusen

2019

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This paper provides a systematic review of current economic and psychological studies on the determinants of PEB published up to 2017. Our normative understanding and study of PEB can benefit from an integral review of these research traditions. Consequently, we identify various determinants of PEB that can be classified into four major types: • Socio-demographic factors (personal capabilities) • Attitudinal (psychological) factors • Habits • Contextual factors (individual, social and institutional) Our paper shows that to understand the complex workings of PEB, it is no longer viable to study its determinants individually, but researchers must rather consider an interplay of these factors. In addition to the introduction of this intersectional approach, we show that measuring PEB in an adequate way requires the consideration of more than one or two distinct behaviors (multiple items) as the impact of the determinants differs depending on the analyzed behavior. PEB itself can also be distinguished into types of PEB (private vs public sphere behaviors, environmental activism). Additionally, our review gives an overview of the typical methodological approaches and systematizes the questions used to measure PEB. By combining results from economics and psychology, this work offers a starting point for a more intersectional and interdisciplinary understanding of PEB, and a guide for further empirical investigations.

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On the Determinants of Pro-Environmental Behavior: A Literature Review and Guide for the Empirical Economist

Blankenberg

Alhusen

2019

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“…Several previous studies show a positive relationship between pro-environmental behavior and subjective well-being [27][28][29][30][31]. Pro-environmental behavior has also been shown to correlate positively with so-called "constructive pessimism", i.e., with a pessimistic anticipation of future subjective well-being [32]. Future negative well-being (here understood as perceived scarcity) can then be avoided by performing "positive"/"constructive" pro-environmental behaviors today.…”

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On the Relationship between Pro-Environmental Behavior, Experienced Monetary Costs, and Psychological Gains

2019

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Drawing on the emerging scarcity, abundance, and sufficiency (SAS) framework, this study explores how various consumer behaviors with potential environmental impacts relate to subjective evaluations of psychological resources such as economic resources, time, social networks, and emotional support. Assuming that individuals may “trade” the costs and efforts of green consumption, including the buying of eco-labeled goods, altered eating habits, and choice of transportation mode, against such psychological resources, we investigate the relationships between green consumer choices and resource evaluations using hierarchical regression analysis of data from an online panel survey. The results suggest that green consumer behaviors are positively related to subjectively evaluated resources such as feelings of economic sufficiency and other, more “relational” resources, including social networks and emotional support. Performing such behaviors may therefore lead to psychological gains. These findings do paint a rather positive picture of environmental behaviors, since they may thus be viewed as having a personal positive trade-off. Although directional effects cannot be firmly established, our study suggests that pro-environmental behavior may increase wellbeing and experienced prosperity. Future studies should further investigate these causalities and implications of these suggested relationships.

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“…Y así, los informes del IPCC (https:// www.ipcc.ch/) 2 pretenden resolver un triple problema: ¿hay CC antropogénico?, ¿con qué consecuencias?, ¿qué podemos hacer para adaptarnos, mitigarlo o revertirlo? Para responder a estas tres preguntas se suceden series temporales de datos; algunos informan sobre lo ocurrido en el pasado, pero los 2 Como el horizonte de las predicciones se sitúa en el año 2100, se habla del paradigma del 2100ismo como propio de los debates sobre el futuro climático (véase Risbey, 2008: 33 Kaida, 2016;Tuhus-Dubrow, 2015) o el recurso a la alarma .La lógica futurizadora del CC se muestra también, de forma fehaciente, en la centralidad de la discusión sobre los derechos de las generaciones futuras (Birnbacher, 1994). Los descendientes que nunca podremos conocer irrumpen en la discusión alargando ilimitadamente el horizonte de futuro.…”

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“…Jonas (1995: 71) called the "futurology of warning": a dreadful image of the future which is made more real and pushes us to avoid it. Hence the relevance of the controversy over apocalyptic images in the climatic debate (Swyngedow 2010;Bettini, 2013;Hjerpe and Linnér, 2009), the pathological tendency to alarmism (Hulme, 2008 and, the variants of catastrophism (Asayama 2016;Hoggett, 2011) and of pessimism (Kaida and Kaida, 2016;Tuhus-Dubrow, 2015), and the use of alarmist imagery .…”

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Futuros climáticos en disputa

Torre¹

2024

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ResumenLas disputas sobre el Cambio Climático (CC) son disputas sobre el futuro. En este trabajo se diferencian distintos discursos sobre el CC a los que corresponden distintas maneras de imaginar el futuro. Esas diferencias responden a maneras alternativas de concebir las dimensiones formales y práctico-cognitivas de los horizontes de futuro. Dada la relevancia de las luchas sociales sobre el CC y el enfrentamiento de distintos imaginarios de futuro, se concluye que, lejos del diagnóstico de la presentificación, nos encontramos en una coyuntura en la que prima una futurización en disputa. Key words AbstractThe disputes about the climate change are about the future. This paper distinguishes between different discourses on climate change taht correspond to different ways of imagining the future. These differences correspond to alternative ways of conceiving the formal and practicalcognitive dimensions of future horizons. Given the relevance of social struggels over climate change and the confrontation of different imaginary futures, it concludes that, away from the diagnosis of the presentification, we find ourselves in a situation where a contested futurization dominates. Cómo citarRamos Torre, Ramón (2018 Hasta hace poco, la relevancia sociológica del problema del cambio climático (CC, en adelante) no estaba clara (Lever-Tracy, 2008; Dunlap y Brulle, 2015;Zehr, 2014), aunque ya se apuntaba en la sociología medioambiental (en España, los trabajos de Ernest García), en la discusión sobre la sociedad del riesgo (Beck, 2008 y Luhmann, 1992) y en los estudios sociales de la ciencia y la tecnología (Shackley y Wynne, 1996y 1997. Solo más recientemente adquiere plena confirmación académica al publicarse en 2009 el libro de Giddens (2010) sobre los problemas políticos que enfrenta. Que ese libro fuera una reacción al impacto mediático, social y político del Cuarto Informe del IPCC (2007) es más que probable. En cualquier caso, ya sea por el impacto social y mediático del problema, ya por su recepción en la sociología del más alto nivel académico, el CC se ha ido, y se seguirá, convirtiendo en un tema central de indagación y debate sociológico (Dunlap y Brulle, 2015). 1Desde el punto de vista de las ciencias sociales, el CC tiene múltiples caras. Aquí se va a atender a una especialmente relevante: sus relaciones con el tiempo y específicamente lo que propongo denominar el problema de la futurización climática. En efecto, el CC, que ciertamente es un problema del presente, se singulariza por su especial proyección sobre el futuro; abordarlo es abordar el futu-1 Este artículo se enmarca en la investigación «Riesgo, incertidumbre y vulnerabilidad en España» (CSO2010-20235), desarrollada junto con Javier Callejo en el marco del Plan Nacional de I+D+i de la Secretaría de Estado de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación del MEC. Una primera versión fue discutida en el XII Congreso de la FES (Gijón, 2016). Agradezco especialmente a Javier Callejo, Pablo Francescutti, Manuel Rodríguez Victoriano, Juanma Iranzo y los dos eval...

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Facilitating Pro-environmental Behavior: The Role of Pessimism and Anthropocentric Environmental Values

Cited by 56 publications

References 62 publications

On the Determinants of Pro-Environmental Behavior: A Literature Review and Guide for the Empirical Economist

On the Determinants of Pro-Environmental Behavior: A Literature Review and Guide for the Empirical Economist

On the Relationship between Pro-Environmental Behavior, Experienced Monetary Costs, and Psychological Gains

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