Mechanisms of public education influencing waste classification willingness of urban residents

Liu, Xiaoguang; Wang, Zhihao; Wei, Li; Li, Guomin; Zhang, Yingyue

doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2019.06.001

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“…It was found in previous studies that the use frequency of stairs is significantly related to the aesthetic design of stairs, the lighting environment of natural lighting and the location of stairs [24,25]. Users' garbage sorting behaviour is also related to the accessibility and convenience of recycling facilities and the implementation of rewards and punitive measures [43] and is certainly related to users' internal psychological motivation-responsibility awareness [44]. Therefore, green building strategies need to strengthen publicity, improve users' pro-environmental awareness, cultivate their sense of pro-environmental responsibility, optimize sustainable design strategies, increase design aesthetic and entertainment benefits and positively guide their pro-environmental behaviours.…”

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Can Green Building Promote Pro-Environmental Behaviours? The Psychological Model and Design Strategy

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A green building has a long lasting benefit through cultivating the occupants’ energy and resource-saving behaviours. To understand how green buildings can cultivate occupants’ pro-environment behaviours, the research applied the value–belief–norm model to investigate 17 pro-environmental behaviours which are related to a variety of green building design strategies. Two green and two non-green certified office buildings in the city of Shenzhen in China were surveyed, based on which structural equation modelling was established to confirm the relationship between personal values, environmental beliefs and norms that lead to pro-environment behaviours. Green and non-green building occupants showed significant differences in altruistic values, environmental awareness, personal norms, and pro-environmental behaviours. Green building users had more frequent pro-environmental behaviours than those in non-green buildings. The strategies that require fewer additional efforts were more likely to be adopted as pro-environmental behaviours, such as meeting daily needs within walking distance and adjusting sunshades, while the strategies that need extra physical efforts (taking stairs) or knowledge (garbage sorting) were less likely to be adopted as pro-environmental behaviours. This study pointed out important intervention opportunities and discussed the possible design implications for green building guidelines and programmes to cultivate green occupants and their corresponding pro-environmental behaviours.

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“…The previous study has used TPB theory to explore behaviors related to food waste and intentions to avoid it and suggests that government policies should be more diverse to better address specific recommendations for each link [ 43 ]. Liu et al [ 44 ] emphasized that the government has sufficient power and resources to promote various activities to cultivate public awareness of environmental issues and that the promotion of policies has a strong predictive effect on public support and behavioral willingness. High-level policy awareness helps to translate awareness into action.…”

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Impact of a Banning Indoor Dining Policy on Restaurant Avoidance Behavior during the COVID-19 Outbreak

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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is spreading around the world, and Taiwan is no exception. Faced with the outbreak of the epidemic, the Taiwan government immediately ordered a policy banning indoor dining. The main purpose of the present research is to extend a Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) theoretical framework to explore the public perception toward banning indoor dining policy on restaurant avoidance behavior during the COVID-19 outbreak. An online survey was administered in Taiwan during the COVID-19 pandemic from 25 May to 8 June 2021; a total of 326 responses were collected by a convenience sampling method, and partial least square (PLS) analysis was deployed to examine the hypothesized relationships. The results showed that perception toward banning indoor dining policy had independent significant associations with attitude, perceived behavioral control, and restaurant avoidance behavior. Moreover, attitude, perceived behavioral control, and subjective norm had independent significant associations with restaurant avoidance behavior. This study provides theoretical and practical insights into the psychological and behavioral processes involved in policy by the general public during the COVID-19 pandemic, thus helping policymakers to better understand public opinion and responses to policy issues.

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“…In addition, they may be likely to learn more waste sorting technique as their schooling year increases. A survey of 378 ordinary residents in the Taiyuan City of China showed that public education has a significant positive effect on the willingness of urban residents to classify household waste [51].…”

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Exploring the Pathways to Participation in Household Waste Sorting in Different National Contexts: A Fuzzy-Set QCA Approach

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2020

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With the increasing pace of industrialization and economic growth, the continuous increase in household waste has become a great concern all over the world. Residents' participation in household waste sorting is an effective way to promote the recycling of household waste. How to effectively promote more residents to participate in waste sorting has become an important issue of the government. Previous research mainly used two methods in exploring residents' intention to sort waste: qualitative case studies to explore potential causal descriptions and statistic studies with the structural equation modeling. These researches, however, consider one special case or the net effect of a single factor, which fails to present the comparisons across international contexts and hardly clarifies the complex pathways to residents' participation. In this research, a novel method fsQCA (fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis) is applied to explore the pathways both from a macro-level perspective and in different national contexts. Results suggest four different pathways influence residents' participation in waste sorting. In the four pathways, GDP level and source separation system are key causal conditions to influence residents to sort waste, but different configurations of these conditions influence whether residents participate in waste sorting at a high rate. Only when the external conditions and the socio-demographic conditions are combined in a specific form, residents participate in waste sorting at a high rate. At last, the findings provide some exercisable suggestions for decision makers in developing countries to design promotion programs and waste sorting policies.

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Mechanisms of public education influencing waste classification willingness of urban residents

Cited by 98 publications

References 64 publications

Can Green Building Promote Pro-Environmental Behaviours? The Psychological Model and Design Strategy

Can Green Building Promote Pro-Environmental Behaviours? The Psychological Model and Design Strategy

Impact of a Banning Indoor Dining Policy on Restaurant Avoidance Behavior during the COVID-19 Outbreak

Exploring the Pathways to Participation in Household Waste Sorting in Different National Contexts: A Fuzzy-Set QCA Approach

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