The Youth of Today Designing the Smart City of Tomorrow

Himmel, Simon; Zaunbrecher, Barbara S.; Wilkowska, Wiktoria; Ziefle, Martina

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-07227-2_37

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“…This resonates with the findings of Barr [20], Buerke et al [45], Cagáňová et al [46], Guagnano et al [47], and Peng et al [48]. In order to enhance sustainability behavior, there should be a stronger focus on increasing the awareness of people by informative activities, training opportunities, public campaigns and advertisements, and social media [49]. Moreover, their attitude towards urban sustainability behavior needs to be enriched by encouraging sustainable practices, providing necessary laws and regulations, revealing the adverse environmental, economic, and social effects of unsustainability, stressing the criticality of the current situation for themselves and future generations, and reminding them of the responsibility of each and every individual to achieve a more sustainable future.…”

Section: Determinants and Behaviorsupporting

confidence: 77%

“…Similarly, regression results illustrate that it had a positive impact on awareness, attitude, and behavior. Thus, the more people improve their sustainability understanding and behavior, the more they are ready to pay, and vice-versa [49,67]. Sustainability policies should therefore be presented in a way that attracts people's attention and persuades them that it is necessary for the benefit of people and the planet to spend more in this arena.…”

Section: Willingness To Paymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Sustainability Understanding and Behaviors across Urban Areas: A Case Study on Istanbul City

2021

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The success of urban sustainability is very much dependent on a number of human factors. Therefore, it becomes even more important to explore how people understand urban sustainability and how they behave accordingly. Based on a formerly developed conceptual framework and on specified influencing factors, this study aimed to evaluate and elucidate the urban sustainability understanding and behavior of individuals in the city of Istanbul. This was assessed through the use of a quantitative questionnaire survey of 535 respondents. Therein, socio-psychological processes of sustainability understanding (i.e., determinants of awareness, perception, and attitude) and sustainability behaviors along with personality traits and influential factors were assessed and analyzed through the use of bivariate and multivariate methods (i.e., correlation tests, ANOVA, t-tests, and multiple linear regression). The results showed that sustainability awareness was more strongly correlated with attitude than perception, whereas behavior was found to be strongly correlated with both awareness and attitude and was (significantly) predicted by all determinants. The associations/influences of personality traits with determinants were found to be mostly insignificant. Conversely, for behavior, they were significant. The most influential factors found (in hierarchical ordering) were awareness of consequences, trust in society, social appraisement, world-mindedness, willingness to pay, trust in science and technology, ascription of responsibility, age and gender.

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Section: Determinants and Behaviorsupporting

confidence: 77%

Section: Willingness To Paymentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainability Understanding and Behaviors across Urban Areas: A Case Study on Istanbul City

2021

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“…Moreover, most of the studies used survey as the primary source of data while interview is the second most popular data source. Limited studies used both and just four studies implemented a focus group approach for data collection [20]. For surveys, most preferred data collection and extraction methods are: Likert scale has been the most popular method of questionnaire design for structured surveys [34,35].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Awareness is also directly related with the visibility of the sustainability issues that really matter [22], only then can environmental responsiveness ensue [46]. Visibility of services enhances the awareness of people [45] and ultimately leads to efficient and sustainable use of resources [20]. Similarly, visible sustainability guidance through labelling or visibility of economic consequences and pressures is suggested to help people to develop more sustainable behaviors and practices [39].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Training and education category is accepted as the educational and training policies, interventions, incentives, activities, or opportunities that are directly related with and concentrated on sustainability and/or smartness. It is highlighted by a number of studies and provides a key influence for USSU in order to improve people's understanding about the urban challenges [22], increase their sustainability awareness [39] and knowledge [20], and engage them in sustainability actions [38]. Through citizen oriented training and education project, it is found that the sustainable knowledge and awareness of participants improves significantly [30].…”

Section: Trainingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Urban Sustainability and Smartness Understanding (USSU)—Identifying Influencing Factors: A Systematic Review

2020

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Urban Sustainability and Smartness Understanding (USSU) can be defined by a group of sociopsychological determinants (such as awareness, perception, attitude and behavior) which shapes the relationship between human beings and the environment in which they live. A variety of influencing factors must exist in relation to USSU, however, a comprehensive examination of these, looking at personal, social, environmental, economic, technical, and governance perspectives in an urban context, appear to be less well researched. As such this paper provides an exploratory and critical evaluation of the literature by focusing on the USSU determinants; with an aim toward identifying the key factors (and sub-factors) that are in relation with these determinants. Two big databases of Scopus and Web of Science—have been searched systematically for the relevant studies. Therein it is observed how these factors affect USSU according to the characteristics of the study. Sustainability focused studies were found to be more commonplace than smartness studies. Moreover, there is currently ambiguity in evaluating the impacts of the identified factors. This paper concludes that a holistic approach is needed for clarifying the relationship and causality between sociopsychological determinants on Urban Sustainability and Smartness context. A framework with six dimensions is presented to initiate future studies to develop a consistent; coherent and comprehensive methodology to assess an individuals’ USSU.

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Influence of Age on Trade-Offs Between Benefits and Barriers of AAL Technology Usage

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Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Design for the Elderly and Technology Acceptance

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The Youth of Today Designing the Smart City of Tomorrow

Cited by 10 publications

References 6 publications

Sustainability Understanding and Behaviors across Urban Areas: A Case Study on Istanbul City

Sustainability Understanding and Behaviors across Urban Areas: A Case Study on Istanbul City

Urban Sustainability and Smartness Understanding (USSU)—Identifying Influencing Factors: A Systematic Review

Influence of Age on Trade-Offs Between Benefits and Barriers of AAL Technology Usage

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