The Geographical Distribution and Correlates of Pro-Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors in an Urban Region

Autor: Áróra Árnadóttir, Michał Czepkiewicz, Jukka Heinonen
Přispěvatelé: Umhverfis- og byggingarverkfræðideild (HÍ), Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering (UI), Verkfræði- og náttúruvísindasvið (HÍ), School of Engineering and Natural Sciences (UI), Háskóli Íslands, University of Iceland
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
Urban region
Urban form
Pro-environmental attitude
Control and Optimization
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Energy Engineering and Power Technology
Distribution (economics)
pro-environmental attitude
010501 environmental sciences
Affect (psychology)
01 natural sciences
lcsh:Technology
national travel
international travel
Gróðurhúsalofttegundir
greenhouse gases
local travel
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Socioeconomics
pro-environmental behavior
urban zones
Engineering (miscellaneous)
National travel
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Umhverfisvernd
Local travel
Urban zones
Renewable Energy
Sustainability and the Environment
business.industry
Ferðavenjur
lcsh:T
Metropolitan area
Geography
Greenhouse gases
Pro-environmental behavior
Viðhorf
Greenhouse gas
business
International travel
Energy (miscellaneous)
Zdroj: Energies, Vol 12, Iss 8, p 1540 (2019)
Energies; Volume 12; Issue 8; Pages: 1540
ISSN: 1996-1073
Popis: Publisher's version (útgefin grein)
A lot of emphasis has been put on the densification of urban form to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transportation. However, many recent studies have found that central urban dwellers, even though their carbon footprints of daily transportation may be lower, might be responsible for higher total emissions than those that reside in suburban areas. Similarly, as with the urban form, higher environmental concern is often considered as an indicator of lower emissions, but several studies have found that pro-environmental attitude (PEA) does not always correlate with less energy intensive behavior. This study analyzes how urban zones, PEA, and several sociodemographic variables are associated with annual travel emissions and pro-environmental behaviors (PEB), using a dataset collected with a map-based online survey (softGIS) survey, contributed by 841 participants from the Helsinki Metropolitan Area (HMA), Finland. Although PEA can affect PEBs related to household energy consumption (β = 0.282, p < 0.001), clothing (β = 0.447, p < 0.001) and produce purchases (β = 0.449, p < 0.0001), their relationship with emissions from local (β = -0.067), national (β = -0.019) and international (β = -0.016) travel was not significant. Clusters of low emissions from local travel and high international travel emissions were found in pedestrian-oriented urban zones and residents of car-oriented zones were more likely to conserve household energy (β = 0.102, p < 0.05). These results might help broaden the current perspective of city planners, as well as identify opportunities for more effective mitigation policies.
Funding: This research was funded by the Icelandic National Planning Agency, the Icelandic Road Administration and the University of Iceland.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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