How do environmental knowledge, environmental sensitivity, and place attachment affect environmentally responsible behavior? An integrated approach for sustainable island tourism

Cheng, Tsang-Hsiang; Wu, Homer C.

doi:10.1080/09669582.2014.965177

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“…A number of scholars in the field of human-environment studies assume that strong ties between individuals and their socio-physical environments will lead them to adopt more environmentally friendly lifestyles [30]. Furthermore, place attachment has a powerful role in predicting environmental conservation behaviors, and many empirical researches have validated the positive impact of place attachment on environmental conservation behaviors [6,14,21,47]. Local environment is one aspect of place, so environment attachment is a dimension of place attachment; therefore, the final two hypotheses-4a and 4b-were proposed (Table 1).…”

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Residents’ Environmental Conservation Behaviors at Tourist Sites: Broadening the Norm Activation Framework by Adopting Environment Attachment

Zhang

et al. 2016

Sustainability

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Understanding the factors that affect residents' environmental conservation behaviors help in managing the environment of tourist sites. This research provides an integrative understanding of how residents near tourist sites form their environmental conservation behaviors by merging the norm-activation model and cognitive-affective model into one theoretical framework. Results of the structural analysis from a sample of 642 residents showed that this study's proposed composite model includes a satisfactory level of predictive power for environmental conservation behaviors. The findings identify the following two dimensions of awareness of environmental consequences as having a key role in predicting environmental conservation behaviors: (1) awareness of positive consequences of environmental protection; and (2) awareness of disaster consequences. Results also show that environment attachment and personal norms about environmentalism played a mediating role between awareness of environmental consequences and environmental conservation behaviors, and that personal norms about environmentalism were the most powerful factor in predicting behaviors. Several practical implications were derived from the research findings that can contribute to environment management policy both within and outside the field of tourism, mostly notably: (1) how the effective promotion of these factors can encourage environmental conservation behaviors for residents; and (2) how governments can develop and implement environmental management measures to improve locals' awareness of positive consequences of environmental protection.

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Residents’ Environmental Conservation Behaviors at Tourist Sites: Broadening the Norm Activation Framework by Adopting Environment Attachment

Zhang

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“…Collaboration, for example, something which facilitates the exchange of expertise, resources and enthusiasm that can stimulate the reappraisals, entrepreneurship and creativity needed to develop and implement sustainable solutions (Hardy & Beeton, 2001), is stimulated by proximity of hosts and guests (Canavan, 2016). Similarly, the awareness of natural and cultural landscapes commonly described as a prerequisite to their protection (Almeyda et al, 2010;Eagles, 2002;Reimer & Walter, 2013) is fostered by involvement and participation with these (Cheng & Wu, 2015;Perkins & Brown, 2012).…”

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An existentialist exploration of tourism sustainability: backpackers fleeing and finding themselves

Canavan

2017

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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This article applies existentialism to sustainable tourism discussion using an exploratory netnographic case study of 12 backpackers. Highlighted is the importance of both existential avoidance and authenticity to participants looking to escape and transcend underlying existential anxiety. Avoidance can be found in the cultural-adherence and selfesteem pathways facilitated by travel. Authenticity is identified in the deeper interactions with host peoples and landscapes, and the liberation, reflection and learning which emerge from this. Avoidance and authenticity are linked in turn with the sustainability of tourism pursued. The former is associated with more hedonistic escape and superficial, selfcentric and insensitive tourism. The latter is suggestive of more transcendent escape and involved, appreciative and alternative tourism.

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“…Sustainable and responsible tourism have also focused on corporate social responsibility (CSR) (Nicolau, 2008), particularly environmental issues (Font, Walmsley, Cogotti, McCombes & Häusler, 2012). However, CSR research in this area has generally focused on the environmental behaviour of tourists (Cheng & Wu, 2015;Dolnicar, Crouch, & Long 2008;Miller, Merrilees, & Coghlan, 2015) and marketing managers (El Dief & Font, 2010). This reflects the focus in mainstream CSR, which generally overlooks the micro level of environmental behaviour within organisations i.e., the employees.…”

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An environmental social marketing intervention in cultural heritage tourism: a realist evaluation

Gregory‐Smith

Wells

Manika

et al. 2017

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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How do environmental knowledge, environmental sensitivity, and place attachment affect environmentally responsible behavior? An integrated approach for sustainable island tourism

Cited by 360 publications

References 76 publications

Residents’ Environmental Conservation Behaviors at Tourist Sites: Broadening the Norm Activation Framework by Adopting Environment Attachment

Residents’ Environmental Conservation Behaviors at Tourist Sites: Broadening the Norm Activation Framework by Adopting Environment Attachment

An existentialist exploration of tourism sustainability: backpackers fleeing and finding themselves

An environmental social marketing intervention in cultural heritage tourism: a realist evaluation

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