Analysis of factors influencing consumers' proenvironmental behavior based on life cycle thinking. Part II: trust model of environmental information
| Autor: | Masahiko Hirao, Emi Kikuchi-Uehara, Jun Nakatani |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Knowledge management
Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment business.industry Strategy and Management 05 social sciences 010501 environmental sciences 01 natural sciences Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Life cycle thinking 050501 criminology Psychology business Path analysis (statistics) Information provision 0505 law 0105 earth and related environmental sciences General Environmental Science |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Cleaner Production. 125:216-226 |
| ISSN: | 0959-6526 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.03.011 |
| Popis: | In Part I of this study, we showed that consumers' environmental awareness and trust in environmental information can affect their practice of proenvironmental behavior. The aim of Part II is to address the questions: how can these two factors be improved and how can life cycle thinking (LCT) help to achieve this improvement? We developed a model representing relationships between trust and its subfactors by integrating the traditional view of trust and the salient value similarity (SVS) model. A web-based survey was conducted using Japanese adults to verify the model, taking ecolabeling as an example of environmental information based on LCT. The results show that the applicability of the two theories can vary according to the level of environmental awareness of the respondents. In addition, the efficacy of providing LCT-based information in raising consumers' environmental awareness was evaluated on the basis of the survey. The efficacy changed according to the level of LCT skills of the respondents. LCT-based information was effective in improving environmental awareness in respondents with relatively low LCT skills. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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