Place Attachment, Climate Friendly Behavior, and Support for Climate Friendly Management Action among State Park Visitors

Groshong, Lisa; Stanis, Sonja A. Wilhelm; Morgan, Mark; Li, Christine Jie

doi:10.1007/s00267-019-01229-9

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“…Behavioral and social sciences state that internal psychological factors such as personal norms and values, environmental concerns, knowledge, and attitude determine environmentally friendly behaviors among individuals [34,35], while psychologists argue that environmental deterioration affects the mental and social health of the individual, so it is necessary to utilize psychological knowledge and tools to cultivate environmental protective behavior in individuals [36,37]. Moreover, economists advocate that external factors such as climate change knowledge and trust in sources of information about environmental issues are more important in promoting climate-friendly behaviors [38]. Therefore, this study advocates that awareness of the climate and climate change affect environmentally friendly behaviors; as such, a few studies conducted to highlight awareness as a predictor of environmentally friendly behavior are reviewed in the following section.…”

Section: Environmental Awareness Environmental Protective Behaviors A...mentioning

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Environmental Awareness and Air Quality: The Mediating Role of Environmental Protective Behaviors

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The purpose of this study is twofold: First, it tests the role of students’ environmental awareness and climate change awareness in their environmental protective behavior and environment quality (EQ). Second, it tests the mediating role of environmental protective behaviors in the association between environment behavior, climate change behavior, and environment quality. Moreover, this study utilizes climate-friendly behaviors and pro-environmental behaviors to reflect environmental protective behaviors. The stratified random sampling technique was applied to collect data through a questionnaire from a sample of 403 graduate students enrolled in Higher Education Commission-recognized private and public universities of Pakistan. This study applied partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) to empirically estimate the results. This study found that climate change awareness significantly and positively affects climate-friendly behavior, environmental quality, and pro-environmental behavior. Similarly, environmental awareness significantly and positively affects environmental quality and pro-environmental behavior. Moreover, pro-environmental behavior significantly affects environmental quality. Indirect results indicate that pro-environmental behavior significantly mediates between climate change awareness and environmental quality, and between environmental awareness and environmental quality. The findings of this study suggest the importance of enhancing awareness of climate- and climate change-related issues among students to save the environment. Higher education institutions should design subjects and courses that will raise environmental and climate change awareness, and expose students to climate- and environment-friendly education.

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“…On an individual level, some studies have found that place attachment can contribute to increased support for mitigation (Altinay 2017; Groshong et al 2020; Yu et al 2019). Place-based educational programs have also demonstrated an ability to increase students’ level of knowledge, awareness, responsibility, hope, and behavioral intentions regarding climate change (Khadka et al 2021; Littrell et al 2020), and place-based communication strategies have been highlighted as an effective means of public climate-change engagement (Gislason et al 2021).…”

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Ground truth: Finding a “place” for climate change

Praskievicz

2022

Progress in Environmental Geography

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This review examines the interdisciplinary literature on the relationship between climate change and place. The concept of place is of interest to both humanistic geographers and environmental psychologists, who examine the ways in which individuals and groups interact with physical and cultural landscapes to form a sense of place and place attachments. As a multiscalar phenomenon that is global in its causes but local in its impacts, climate change presents several challenges to the concept of place. The relevant issues include 1) the extent to which climate-change impacts can be directly experienced, 2) the ways in which local place attachments can facilitate or impede adaptation to climate change, and 3) the grounding of climate-change mitigation in place. Drawing on literature from Earth science, human geography, and environmental psychology, the review explores how the global conceptualization of the environment prevalent in climate-change discourses can undermine notions of place, how deep connections to place can enhance the detection and attribution of climate change and contribute to climate resilience, and how climate activist movements reconcile the multiple spatial scales of climate change.

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“…Part of people's social identity is shaped through belonging to different social groups that distinguish their group (in-group) from other groups (out-groups) [32]. Individual values and attachments are also significant, for instance levels of green self-identity [34], and how attached people are to the place that they live in [35] can influence adoption. Thus, whether individuals support certain climate change mitigation technologies and policies can be influenced by their memberships in certain groups and their underlying values and norms [4**].…”

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What makes people act climate-friendly? A decision-making path model for designing effective climate change policies

Otte

2021

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

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Place Attachment, Climate Friendly Behavior, and Support for Climate Friendly Management Action among State Park Visitors

Cited by 17 publications

References 54 publications

Environmental Awareness and Air Quality: The Mediating Role of Environmental Protective Behaviors

Environmental Awareness and Air Quality: The Mediating Role of Environmental Protective Behaviors

Ground truth: Finding a “place” for climate change

What makes people act climate-friendly? A decision-making path model for designing effective climate change policies

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