Strategies for Public Engagement on Environmental Matters: You Can Lead a Horse to Water, but Can You Make It Drink?

Mmojieje, Josephine

doi:10.1080/1533015x.2015.1109485

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“…Understanding the relationships between residence, time of research, and environmental awareness is important for municipal governments to assess whether they have succeeded or failed in terms of promoting their eco-policies. Understanding the relationships between socio-demographic factors, such as age and sex, and environmental awareness is also crucial because this understanding may enable municipal governments to identify which segments of the population recognize the city's ecopolicies and focus on addressing the population that are unaware of the eco-policies (Mmojieje 2015).…”

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Assessing and promoting eco-policies in Toyota City, Japan

Ito

Kawazoe

2019

Policy Design and Practice

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This study analyzes the relationships between four factors related to the eco-policies of Toyota City, Japan, and its citizens' environmental awareness: i.e. residence (Toyota City citizens or noncitizens), time of research (2012, 2015, and 2018), sex, and age. Understanding these factors is crucial for the municipal government to assess its success or failure in terms of promoting its eco-policies and to identify and address the population segments that are unaware of these eco-policies. In this study, 997 respondents completed a questionnaire to analyze the above-stated factors and environmental awareness. The findings suggest that all factors are likely to be associated with environmental awareness of Toyota City's eco-policies. That is, citizens tend to be more aware of the city's eco-policies than noncitizens; respondents in the 2015 and 2018 studies tend to be more aware of the eco-policies than those in the 2012 study; men tend to be more aware of the eco-policies than women; and respondents over 30 years old tend to be more aware of the eco-policies than respondents under 30 years old. Following these findings, this study suggests the need to target women and citizens under 30 to promote ecopolicies. Finally, some suggestions for the promotion of eco-policies were discussed.

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Assessing and promoting eco-policies in Toyota City, Japan

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Kawazoe

2019

Policy Design and Practice

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“…In order for environmental campaigns to promote pro‐environmental behavior they must strategically target nuances in human behavior (Cote and Wolfe 2018). Mmojieje (2015) examined the effect of major principals from different theoretical models on public learning from environmental campaigns, finding that political climate, environmental knowledge, infrastructure, technology, habits, social norms, values, motivation, and self‐efficacy influenced pro‐environmental behavior change.…”

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Engaging the Public in Water Policy: Do Political Affiliation and Ideology Matter?

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Contemporary Water Research

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Unsustainable human activities are rapidly depleting freshwater resources in many parts of the United States. Public policy surrounding water conservation is arguably one of the most essential strategies for targeting the preservation of water. Increased public engagement in environmental policy may bolster sustainable consumption of water resources if nuances in human behavior are targeted through communication messages. A quantitative research design using an online survey of the general United States public was used to explore if political affiliation and political ideology predicted how respondents prepared to vote on a policy that impacts water. The study revealed that respondents neither agreed nor disagreed on the level to which they would take specific actions to become prepared to vote on a policy that impacts water, indicating there is room for improvement. Results from a multiple linear regression revealed political affiliation and political ideology significantly predicted how respondents prepared to vote on a policy that impacts water; however, they accounted for a small amount of variance in the models. Future studies should identify additional predictors to determine how respondents prepare to vote on a policy that impacts water since political affiliation and political ideology were not a major influence on how respondents prepare to vote. Environmental communicators should focus their outreach efforts on increasing public preparedness to vote on polices that impact water.

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