Acceptance of new sanitation : The role of end-users' pro-environmental personal norms and risk and benefit perceptions

Autor: P. Marijn Poortvliet, Jasper R. de Vries, Jan Weijma, Liese Sanders
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
Předmět:
Male
Value-belief-norm theory
Risk perception
Sanitation
0208 environmental biotechnology
WASS
02 engineering and technology
010501 environmental sciences
Reuse
Wastewater
01 natural sciences
Waste Disposal
Fluid
Surveys and Questionnaires
Pro-environmental personal norms
Marketing
Waste Management and Disposal
Water Science and Technology
media_common
Netherlands
Aged
80 and over
Ecological Modeling
Middle Aged
Pollution
Environmental Policy
Female
Milieutechnologie
Adult
Environmental Engineering
Resource (biology)
Strategic Communication
media_common.quotation_subject
Decision Making
Strategische Communicatie
Decentralized sanitation
Water Supply
Perception
Humans
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Civil and Structural Engineering
Aged
WIMEK
End user
System innovation
020801 environmental engineering
New sanitation
Public Opinion
Environmental Technology
Business
Willingness to accept
Zdroj: Water Research 131 (2018)
Water Research, 131, 90-99
ISSN: 0043-1354
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2017.12.032
Popis: Current sanitation systems are inherently limited in their ability to address the new challenges for (waste)water management that arise from the rising demand to restore resource cycles. These challenges include removal of micropollutants, water (re)use, and nutrient recovery. New opportunities to address these challenges arise from new sanitation, a system innovation that combines elements of source separation, local treatment and reuse, and less use of water. New sanitation is applied, but not yet widespread, in several residential areas in Europe. Implementation is hindered by the lack of insight into the general public's willingness to engage in new sanitation, and the resulting uncertainty about this among decision makers and other stakeholders in wastewater management. Using value-belief-norm theory as a conceptual lens, this paper addresses the individual motivations (pro-environmental personal norms) and personal drivers (benefits) and barriers (risks) for acceptance of new sanitation by the Dutch general public. The results of an online survey (N = 338) indicated that both pro-environmental personal norms and risk and benefit perceptions predict consumers' willingness to accept new sanitation. More specifically, they showed that consumer acceptance is driven by perceived risks relating to the housing market and the need to change behavior, but also by environmental benefits. Overall, new sanitation was favorably evaluated by respondents: 64% indicated that they would likely use new sanitation if they were owner-occupiers. The results of this explorative study are discussed in light of the development of novel sanitation systems that are sensitive to perceptions of end-users and other key stakeholders.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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