What influences an individual’s pro-environmental behavior? A literature review

Ding, Li; Zhao, Luman; Ma, Stefan; Shao, Shuai; Zhang, Lixiao

doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2019.03.024

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“…Robert and Bacon (1997) identified six factors of the environmentally conscious consumer behavior, such as products from recycled paper, saving (fossil) energy, waste recycling issues, eco-conscious decision making, increasing energy efficiency and reducing electricity consumption. Li et al (2019) also identified a series of operationalized pro-environmental behavior, such as recycling waste, other waste management issues, energy consumption, transport usage, purchasing green products or purchasing eco-friendly appliances (Li et al, 2019).…”

Section: Conceptualization Zero Waste Consumer Lifestylementioning

confidence: 99%

“…A lot of the environmentally conscious consumer studies are developed either on the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) (Fishbein and Ajzen, 1975) or on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) by Ajzen (1991) (Liobikienė et al, 2016;Khan et al, 2019;Li et al, 2019). According to these theories, the attitude towards the action and the social pressure are significant predictors of the intention to act.…”

Section: Determinants Of the Zero Waste Consumer Lifestylementioning

confidence: 99%

“…While the subjective norm is one of the major predictors of the intention to behave in a certain way, and indirectly of the actual behavior, the results of the studies are divergent. Subjective norm refers to consumers' perceived social pressure to whether to perform or not the behavior (Li et al, 2019). While some authors found that subjective norm is an important predictor of the recycling behavior (Khan et al, 2019) or on the purchasing green products (Liobikienė et al, 2016), others have not identified its significant impact on the recycling behavior (Davies et al, 2002;Ma et al, 2017).…”

Section: Determinants Of the Zero Waste Consumer Lifestylementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Motivations of waste management issues is a quite complex system (Moisander, 2007). Li et al (2019) mark motivation as one of the factors which influences the pro-environmental behavior. Exploring the motivations behind waste reduction is an essential step to designing effective solutions for the waste problem (Graham-Rowe et al, 2014).…”

Section: Determinants Of the Zero Waste Consumer Lifestylementioning

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Determinants of Adopting a Zero Waste Consumer Lifestyle

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Márton

2019

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As of 2019, Euromonitor International predicted that one of the most emerging consumer trends would be the aspiration and acting for a plastic-free world. The concept of Zero waste has been widely discussed in production technology and waste management literature, however, in recent years environmentally conscious consumers also decided to get more involved in concrete -and sometimes radical -waste reduction actions, even lifestyle changes. These initiatives were also supported by the authorities by banning certain single-use plastic items in the European Union by 2021. Media and social media personalities also have thematized the waste pollution problem and have brought closer to the population the principles of zero waste lifestyle. While the environmentally conscious consumer behavior has been researched widely before, the diffusion of zero waste principles at household level has not been in the researchers' focus. The present study aims to conceptualize and then identify the dimensions and the determinants of a zero waste consumer lifestyle. Questionnaire-based research has been delivered on a sample of 378 people active in zero waste social media groups in Hungary. Our results reveal that the waste reduction initiatives are the most important components of the zero waste behavior; however, dimensions of reusing and recycling products, packages or waste are also identified. The zero waste consumer is driven by altruistic motivations, is nonconformist, guided by his own values and convictions, shows positive attitude towards zero wasters' efforts, follows social media influencers' videos in zero waste matters and is active in social media groups.

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“…In general, the new communication practice such as what is offered by Ant Forest tries to fix two urgent problems in turning people's understanding of the environmental crisis into pro-environmental behavior. The first one relates to incentive mechanisms: The lack of effective incentives makes it difficult to transform willingness into actual behavior, form pro-environment habits, and achieve a series of other environmental actions based on spillover effects [38,39]. The second problem is about behavior implementation: Even if people are aware of the environmental crisis and have a sense of responsibility, due to factors such as perceived behavior control, environmental behavior is still difficult to implement [40,41].…”

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Ant Forest through the Haze: A Case Study of Gamified Participatory Pro-Environmental Communication in China

Chen

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2019

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Increasing energy consumption and growing pollutant emissions speak volumes about the environmental challenges in various countries and regions. As one of the fastest-developing countries, China has been facing a serious environmental crisis, with many parts of the country constantly shrouded in a heavy haze. In order to improve the public’s pro-environmental awareness and encourage people to take action to contribute to energy conservation and emissions reduction, Ant Forest, a gamified participatory communication program, was launched on the top mobile payment service Alipay. This innovative approach links people’s low-carbon lifestyles with afforestation and haze control in the real world through virtual gaming experiences. This case study explains the working mechanism of Ant Forest in pro-environmental communication and investigates its effectiveness in motivating the public to engage in pro-environmental activities. Focus groups and interviews were adopted in this study to collect qualitative data. The results indicate that Ant Forest plays an encouraging role in Chinese users’ pro-environmental awareness and behaviors, but improvements in user experiences are still needed in some aspects. By introducing the haze problem in China and the practice of gamified participatory pro-environmental communication, this paper is expected to provide inspiration and reference for future efforts to promote public participation in environmental protection.

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To act or to react? The role of responsiveness in corporate social performance disclosure in preventing plastic pollution in the travel and tourism sector

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A corporate social performance model is dependent on strategies involving the processes of social responsiveness. From this perspective, this article observes that the voluntary disclosure of corporate social performances (CSP-D) is a proactive behavior based on "responsiveness" because it corresponds to the ability to reduce the gap between disclosed content and the perception of the content by stakeholders. The study examines the voluntary disclosure actions undertaken through social media by 60 T&T companies to communicate to their stakeholders how they contribute to reducing environmental negative externalities, plastic pollution in particular. Then, a co-word analysis is carried out, adopting social network maps to highlight and compare the cognitive paths that characterize disclosure and reaction. The findings suggest that when the cognitive pathways of stakeholders tend to converge towards the behavior disclosed by companies, their expectations are met and this enhances CSP-D effectiveness. Finally, social media are suitable for generating this alignment, reducing the legitimacy gap and building a good reputation.

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What influences an individual’s pro-environmental behavior? A literature review

Cited by 419 publications

References 90 publications

Determinants of Adopting a Zero Waste Consumer Lifestyle

Determinants of Adopting a Zero Waste Consumer Lifestyle

Ant Forest through the Haze: A Case Study of Gamified Participatory Pro-Environmental Communication in China

To act or to react? The role of responsiveness in corporate social performance disclosure in preventing plastic pollution in the travel and tourism sector

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