The relation between place attachment and pro-environmental behaviour has not been thoroughly examined. Of the few studies to have investigated this, findings conflict (Uzzell, Pol, & Badenas, 2002; Vaske & Kobrin, 2001). Possibly, these inconsistencies relate to the definition of place attachment. The current study distinguished two dimensions of place attachment: social-symbolic (civic), and physical-natural. Data were collected from 104 community members in two proximate towns. Participants indicated their levels of natural and civic attachment, evaluated the current and future local environmental quality, and reported their pro-environmental behaviours. Greater place attachment was associated with more positive current evaluations in Trail. Surprisingly, environmental evaluations did not predict pro-environmental behaviour in either town. Both types of place attachment predicted pro-environmental behaviour in Nelson, but in Trail, only natural attachment was significant. Thus, for different cities, different types of place attachment will predict pro-environmental behaviour. Implications and directions for further research are discussed.

The environmental and climate-related sustainability challenges facing the world today are complex, accelerating and urgent, and they call for change from multiple stake­hol­ders. While govern­ments, busi­nes­ses and other insti­tutions hold a high degree of responsibility for initia­ting and enabling the neces­sary change processes towards sustainable practices, so do also individuals and com­munities. Despite inno­va­tive change projects worldwide much remains to be done. However, making changes is difficult for many people, and even more so in situations characterised by uncertainty. In this study the role of future-oriented ima­gination in motivating changes towards sustainable lifestyles was explored through an experimental intervention design. Test group participants were exposed to a guided imagination of a sustainability scenario in the year 2028, followed by a writing assignment allowing them time to en­ga­ge with how they see their own future life. The control group spent the same amount of time listening to a guided present-day reflection and writing about their current everyday life. Pre- and post-intervention, both groups comp­leted lifestyle question­naires. The pre­-­­inter­­vention ques­tion­naire constituted the baseline assessment against which their post-inter­ven­tion questionnaire results (which was asking both groups to record the lifestyle decisions they thought they would be making in the year 2028 on the same behaviours as in the pre-intervention questionnaire) were compared to check for reported degrees of changes. Besides their expected lifestyle changes, their predicted future personal change and degree of pro-environmental self-identity in the year 2028 was measured. The results show that test group participants, who were exposed to the future-oriented imagination, reported a substantially higher degree of future lifestyle changes and future pro-environ­mental self-identity than the control group, as well as predicting a higher degree of future personal change. Future-oriented imagination seems to be a potent pathway for eliciting future-oriented sustainability enga­ge­ment while avoiding some of the risks of negative spillover. This suggests that future-oriented imagination can play an important role in developing motivation for sustainable lifestyle changes, and that it can be a complement to other psychological drivers for pro-environmental behaviours.

This work explores the influence of place of residence on the environmental attitudes and particularly their formation. I try to find differences in environmental attitudes of respondents from village and town in the context of other factors which have influence on formation of environmental attitudes. These factors are family environment, personal nature experience or impact of social environment. For this reason, I conducted a case study of environmental attitudes and their formation process of the respondents from the village Hostouň and respondents from the Capital City of Prague. The theoretical part focuses on attitudes in general and issues of environmental attitudes. It provides an overview of socio- demographic factors which do affect the environmental attitudes, mainly the place of residence. I also deal with the measurement of environmental attitudes, and define the terms village and town. The empirical part provides analysis of twenty semistructured interviews - ten respondents from the village and ten respondents from the city. I also conducted research using the additional standardized questionnaire NEP. The main objective was to identify existing differences in the current environmental attitudes of respondents from village and town. I also try to establish what impact the place of...

It has been widely acknowledged that environmental damage and changes in the global climate can be attributed to human activities. In their attempt to deal with these issues, current top down approaches to mitigate climate change not only have limited efficacy, but also fail at changing people’s behaviour. In this thesis, we argue that bottom up initiatives can be more successful at engaging people in pro-environmental behaviour change and action than the current top down strategies. The potential of bottom up actions to encourage such change and action is first assessed in literature. A more specific perspective of bottom up initiatives is looked at in which pro-environmental behaviour is encouraged and observed through the lens of urbanism. A practical event on sustainability, co-organized by the authors of this paper at KTH Campus, is then taken as a case study to test and verify if bottom up actions can bring about change in behaviours and generate public engagement in public spaces. The results show that bottom up actions have great potential to reach the community and engage people into sustainable practices. As it was positive and solution-oriented, but also accessible, participative and fun, the event easily attracted people’s attention and interest. The stimulating environment then facilitates the process of sharing and learning information and consequently, it also increases the chances of influencing behaviour change and action.

This study aims to examine the effect of organisational commitment and employee’s pro-environmental behaviour at home on their intention to adopt green practices at the workplace in the context of hotel industry, by taking the theory of planned behaviour as a conceptual framework. Hotel employees play a critical role that affects customers' experiences, which then affects the overall hotel performance. However, the mechanism that affects their behavioural intention has yet to be investigated properly. Thus, a survey was conducted to collect the data from employees working in green and non-green hotels in Malaysia. Overall, there were 407 responses received, which represented a response rate of 55.75 percent. Then, a set of hypotheses was tested using the structural equation modelling. The empirical results indicate that organisational commitments have a positive effect on the attitude for engaging in a green behaviour and subjective norm, which in turn influenced employees’ intention to adopt green practices at work. Meanwhile, employees’ pro environmental behaviour at home has an indirect impact on employee’s intention to adopt green practices in the workplace through their attitude for engaging in a green behaviour, subjective norms, and perceived behavioural control. The findings lead to a theoretical contribution by incorporating another theory into the theory of planned behaviour, which is the social bond theory through organisational commitment and spill-over effect through pro environmental behaviour at home. Subsequently, a practical recommendation from this research is attainable to policy makers and hotel providers in order for them to understand and increase employees’ willingness to adopt green practices at the workplace. / The full text will be available at the end of the embargo: 15th Dec 2026

Gamification är ett nytt innovativt sätt att uppmuntra till hållbart beteende genom att ta tillvara gamifications förmåga att påverka individers motivation och engagemang. Därför är det intressant att undersöka möjligheterna gamification har att användas av turistdestinationer som ett verktyg för att motivera besökare till ett mer hållbart beteende. Studien är inriktad främst på miljömässig hållbarhet, studien har en hermeneutisk utgångspunkt och datainsamling har skett genom semistrukturerade intervjuer med turistdestinationer. Studien syftar till att öka kunskapsområdet inom ämnet gamification som ett verktyg för hållbar turism. Studiens teoretiska ramverk är turistdestinationer och digital utveckling, gamification och turistupplevelser, eco-gamification, turisters miljövänliga beteende och hållbar turism.Studien behandlar sambandet mellan gamification, miljömässig hållbar utveckling, turistdestinationer och turistbeteende. Studien är uppdelad i tre faser; fas 1 är en förstudie i form av en kvantitativ enkätundersökning, fas 2 är en kvalitativ förstudie för fördjupad förförståelse och den tredje fasen innefattar datainsamling genom kvalitativa semistrukturerade intervjuer. Teman som framkom från den tematiska analysen av empirin är som följande: (1) gamification kan skapa nya innovativa turistupplevelser; (2) potentialen för gamification att användas som ett verktyg för miljömässig hållbar turism; (3) hur destinationer kan påverka turisters miljömedvetna beteende; (4) gamification medför negativa effekter och utmaningar i utvecklingen av turistupplevelser.Studiens resultat visar att samtliga destinationerna ser gamification som ett intressant verktyg för miljömässig hållbar turism, ett par av de intervjuade destinationerna använder, eller har använt, gamification som ett sätt att öka turisters miljömedvetna beteende. Tävlingar, lära sig något nytt och utvecklas anser destinationerna är de viktigaste drivkrafterna för att delta i en gamifierad aktivitet, men både inre och yttre motivation är viktigt att ha i beaktande. / Gamification is a new innovative way to encourage sustainable behavior by using gamification's ability to influence individuals motivation and commitment. Therefore, it is interesting to investigate the possibilities gamification has for being used by tourist destinations as a tool to motivate visitors to a more sustainable behavior. The study is focused primarily on environmental sustainability, the study has a hermeneutic research model and data collection has taken place through semi-structured interviews with tourist destinations. The study aims to increase the knowledge area within the subject of gamification as a tool for sustainable tourism. The study's theoretical framework is tourist destinations and digital development, gamification and tourist experiences, eco-gamification, tourists environmentally friendly behavior and sustainable tourism. The study deals with the connection between gamification, environmentally sustainable development, tourist destinations and tourist behaviour. The study is divided into three phases; phase 1 is a pre-study in the form of a quantitative survey, phase 2 is a qualitative pre-study for in-depth pre-understanding and the third phase includes data collection through qualitative semi-structured interviews. The themes that emerged from the thematic analysis of the empirical work are: (1) gamification can create new innovative tourist experiences; (2) the potential for gamification to be used as a tool for environmentally sustainable tourism; (3) how destinations can influence the environmentally conscious behavior of tourists; (4) negative effects and challenges of gamification in the development of tourist experiences. The results of the study show that all the destinations see gamification as an interesting tool for environmentally sustainable tourism. A couple of the interviewed destinations use, or have used, gamification as a way to increase the environmentally conscious behavior of tourists. Competitions, learning something new and progress are considered by the destinations to be the most important motivators for participating in a gamified activity. Both intrinsic and extrinsic motivators are important to take into account in the development of gamification. / <p>2024-05-29</p>

Thema der vorliegenden Arbeit ist die Bedeutung eines nahräumlichen Angebots an umweltfreundlichen Lebensmitteln für die Umweltauswirkungen des Lebensmitteleinkaufs. Die betrachteten Umweltauswirkungen gehen über die Produktwahl hinaus und schließen sowohl die Einkaufsmobilität als auch die Wahl der Einkaufsstätte mit ein. Für die Umweltauswirkungen ist von besonderem Interesse, ob bei einem fehlenden nahräumlichen Angebot auf weiter entfernt gelegene Einkaufsmöglichkeiten zurückgegriffen wird. Diese Fragen wurden am Beispiel des Lebensmitteleinkaufs in sechs Berliner Wohngebieten empirisch untersucht, wobei qualitative Methoden (Interviews) und quantitative Methoden (Befragung und Kartierung) kombiniert wurden. Die empirischen Befunde zeigen, dass die Angebotssituation in den untersuchten innerstädtischen Gründerzeitquartieren grundsätzlich besser als in den Großwohnsiedlungen und Einfamilienhausgebieten am Stadtrand ist. Insbesondere die Bioeinkaufsstätten sind für diese Unterschiede verantwortlich, da das Angebot an umweltfreundlichen Lebensmitteln im konventionellen Lebensmitteleinzelhandel von geringem Umfang und wenig bekannt ist. Ebenso wie beim Angebot bestehen bei der Nachfrage nach umweltfreundlichen Lebensmitteln Differenzen zwischen den untersuchten Wohngebieten. So kaufen die BewohnerInnen der Gründerzeitquartiere umweltfreundliche Produkte, insbesondere Bioprodukte, am häufigsten ein. Die Ergebnisse der Untersuchung zeigen, dass das nahräumliche Angebot eine entscheidende Rolle für den Kauf umweltfreundlicher Produkte spielt. Die im Rahmen dieser Arbeit gebildeten "Umwelteinkaufstypen" zeigen die divergierende Verhaltensweisen der KonsumentInnen beim Einkaufen in Abhängigkeit der Einkaufsorientierungen auf. Dabei verhalten sich diejenigen Personen, die in besonderem Maße umweltfreundliche Produkte kaufen, auch im Bereich Einkaufsmobilität besonders umweltfreundlich. / The influence of nearby shopping opportunities for environmentally friendly food on the environmental impact of food shopping is the topic of the present thesis. The environmental impacts considered exceed the choice of products and include shopping mobility behaviour and the choice of shop. Regarding environmental impacts, in how far shops further away will be visited if nearby opportunities are missing is of special interest. The present survey inquires these questions using food shopping in six residential areas of Berlin as an example. A combination of qualitative methods (interviews) and quantitative methods (mapping, inquiry) has been conducted. The results of the empirical study demonstrate considerable distinctions between the shopping opportunities for eco-friendly food in the different survey areas. The supply situation in the inner-city areas with tenement houses from Wilhelminian time generally surpasses the supply in the areas with high blocks of flats and detached family houses in the outskirts. In peculiar, natural food stores - concentrating in the inner-city areas - are of importance for these differences, as the supply of environmentally friendly food in the conventional food retail stores is rather limited and little known. Differences between the survey areas were also revealed for the purchase of eco-friendly food, especially organic food. The inhabitants of the areas with tenement houses from Wilhelminian time shop most environmentally friendly. Nearby supply has been shown to have an important impact on the purchase of eco-friendly food. Several types of ''environmental shoppers'' where generated, demonstrating the relevance of different shopping orientations for their shopping behaviour. Normally, shopping opportunities further away are not visited to buy environmentally friendly food. On the contrary, those persons who buy eco-friendly food often behave particularly environmentally friendly in the field of shopping mobility as well.

Die voorbestaan van die mensdom is nou verweef met die toestand waarin die omgewing verkeer. Menslike aktiwiteite het 'n groot impak op die omgewing, terwyl die omgewing weer die mens se lewensgehalte bepaal. Hierdie studie is dan daarop gemik om deur omgewingsopvoeding, die mens te lei tot omgewingsgesonde gedrag met die oog op volhoubare ontwikkeling. Ten einde hierin te slaag, word die verskillende omgewingsprobleme en die redes daarvoor eers uitgeklaar. Daarna word die faktore wat tot omgewingsagteruitgang kan lei, ondersoek. Hieruit blyk duidelik <lat die wereld en die RSA, in die toekoms digter bevolk, meer besoedel, ekologies minder stabiel en daarom meer gevoelig vir natuurrampe gaan word. Soos uit die proefskrif sal blyk kan omgewingsopvoeding 'n positiewe bydrae tot bierdie omgewingsprobleme lewer. Om daarby uit te kom word daar dus eers 'n kort bistoriese oorsig van omgewingsopvoeding gegee. Die rol en bydrae wat enkele internasionale organisasies tot omgewingsbewustheid gelewer het, word ondersoek. Daar word 'n oorsig gegee van verwikkelinge in die RSA en die invloed van die Aardeberaad op omgewingsopvoeding in die RSA, word ontleed. Ten einde outentieke omgewingsopvoeding te vergestalt word aanvaar <lat die mens met sy geboorte in 'n wereld gewerp word waaraan hy slegs met sy dood kan ontsnap. In hierdie gesitueerdheid in die wereld as leefnrimte, moet hy sin aan sy bestaan gee, terwyl hy ook 'n poging moet aanwend om die omgewing te verbeter, as voorsorg vir die oorlewing van toekomstige geslagte. Met inagneming van die opvoedings- en omgewingsrelasie waarin die mens tot sy omgewing staan, word die essensiele kenmerke van omgewingsopvoeding blootgele, ten einde moontlikheidsvoorwaardes te stel vir outentieke omgewingsopvoeding. Besondere Idem word gele op omgewingsgedrag wat volhoubaarheid nastreef. Dit alles kulmineer in omgewingsgesonde gedrag wat as oorkoepelende doelstelling vir omgewingsopvoeding gestel word. Omdat die mens se gedrag teenoor die omgewing bepaal word deur sy omgewingsetiek, word drie verskillende benaderings tot omgewingsetiek onderskei. Klem word gele op die noodsaak van omgewingsgeletterdheid. Ten einde die mens se optrede teenoor die omgewing te probeer verstaan, word drie omgewingsgedragstyle ontleed. Twee wetenskaplike aardgenese-hipoteses word beskryf vir verdere duidelikheid oor omgewingsgedrag. Aan die einde van die studie, word enkele beginsels gestel wat kan lei tot die ontwikkeling van omgewingsgesonde gedrag met die oog op volhoubare voortbestaan. / Mankind's survival is interwoven with the state of the environment. Human activities have a great impact on the environment, while the environment, again, determines the quality of man's life. This study aims to aid mankind, through environmental education, to environmentally sound behaviour with an eye on sustainable development. To attain this, the different environmental problems and their causes, are sorted out first. Then the factors that can lead to environmental degradation are investigated. From this it is quite clear that in the future, the world and the RSA will be more densely populated, become more polluted, be ecologically less stable and will therefore be more sensitive to natural disasters. Because environmental education can make a positive contribution to this, a short historical survey of environmental education is given. The role and contribution of some international organisations is investigated. Developments in the RSA are surveyed and the influence of the Earth Summit on environmental education in the RSA is analysed. At birth, mankind is thrown into a world from where he can escape only at death. In this world in which he has to stay, he must give meaning to his existence, while also trying to improve the environment to guarantee the survival of coming generations. Bearing in mind the educational and environmental relationship between any human being and his environment, the essential characteristics of environmental education are exposed in order to set possible conditions for authentic environmental education. Special emphasis is placed on environmental behaviour aimed at sustainablility. All this culminates in environmentally sound behaviour that acts as the overall aim for environmental education. Because man's environmental ethic determines his behaviour towards the environment, three different approaches to environmental ethics are distinguished. Emphasis is placed on the necessity for environmental literacy. In order to try to understand man's behaviour towards the environment, three styles of environmental behaviour are analysed. For further clarification of environmental behaviour, two scientific earth genesis hipotheses are also described. In conclusion, this study leads to certain principles that can lead to the development of environmentally sound behaviour aimed at the sustainable survival of mankind. / Educational Studies / D. Ed. (Filosofie van die Opvoeding)

Despite recognition that reductions in fossil-fuel usage are necessary to reduce environmental harm, energy consumption continues to rise globally. There is a growing need to understand how to effectively influence individuals to reduce their energy consumption, particularly of fossil-fuels. Pro-environmental behaviour is the subset of consumer behaviour that is oriented towards reducing environmental impact compared to other options. It is widely agreed that due to a multiplicity of influencers, pro-environmental behaviour is best analysed using an integrated approach that allows the inclusion of different disciplinary perspectives, and seeks to identify the most important influences in the system under study. This dissertation sought to address the broader challenge of how to better design programs and policies that result in behaviour that is more sustainable. The objective of this dissertation was to assess the importance and effects of program structure and advice-giving on the pro-environmental behaviour of participating in a home energy evaluation program that encouraged homeowners to implement energy efficiency retrofits. Program structure was defined as the combination of the price of the evaluation, the financial reward structure, the level of government support, and the focus on influencing eight specific decisions within a specified timeframe. Advice-giving occurred during the initial evaluation with a home energy advisor and with the delivery of the report that contained a set of recommendations. A convergent mixed methods research design was employed to assess the relative importance of the two factors on participation and advice-following, where advice-following was considered as the matching of decisions to recommendations. The quantitative dataset was made up of files that detailed the 13,429 initial and the 6,123 follow-up evaluations conducted by advisors of the Residential Energy Efficiency Project (REEP) in the Region of Waterloo between 1999 and 2011. The qualitative data were gathered through 12 interviews with home energy advisors, eight of whom had worked for REEP and had conducted more than half of the home energy evaluations contained in the quantitative dataset. A natural quasi-experimental intervention that measured self-selection in response to varying program structure was employed to examine for variations in participation, material characteristics of houses, recommendations, and advice-following. To extend our understanding of the process of participation and decision making patterns, other analyses focused on relationships between the number of recommendations, the time between initial and follow-up evaluations, the number and types of decisions made, and the prioritization of decisions. The interviews assessed for differences in styles of advice-giving, and for their impact through comparison with the quantitative data that detailed the recommendations and decisions taken by the homeowners. The results of the effects of both factors were interpreted jointly and compared to previous studies about REEP or the EnerGuide for Houses and program as it was delivered nationally. This dissertation confirmed that an integrated approach to examining pro-environmental behaviour is supported as a useful framework for analysis. The findings support a process-based definition of pro-environmental behaviour as a useful model and form of integration. A convergent mixed methods research design is supported as a valuable and rigorous approach to examine the impact of various influences simultaneously. The delineation of multiple stages in the decision making process greatly enhanced the quality of analyses and findings. The two main factors of program structure and advice-giving affected advice-following. One factor influenced the other, as the program structure affected the receptiveness of homeowners as perceived by advisors, which affected advice-giving. The findings support the importance of both behaviourist and social learning approaches in influencing pro-environmental behaviour, and that their importance varies depending on the stage of the decision process. The findings show that behaviourist interventions, such as the program structure, were associated with variations in participation, and that different subsets of the population of houses from the Region of Waterloo were attracted to the different program structures. Indeed, in each program structure, the decision to return was influenced by different decisions. A critical finding of this study was that these programs were not sufficient to alter the path dependence of energy consumption or of energy systems as the program participants usually did not implement the most effective retrofits, and if they did, the retrofits did not achieve adequate depth of reductions to energy consumption in a timely manner. According to the home energy advisors, many homeowners had pre-conceived ideas upon entering the program of replacing their heating systems and windows. The interpretation of the qualitative and quantitative data showed that these intentions were often not altered, particularly in the case of windows, the decision that advisors believed to be the least effective of energy decisions.

The research in this study focuses on the role of environmental education activities in the clarification of environmental values in Grade 6 learners. The much discussed environmental crisis arose as a result of man's negative environmental behaviour. Human behaviour is a matter of choices based on environmental values. Environmental value clarification aims to raise learners' awareness of their own values and to increase their effect on the environment. It helps learners to explore their own values, to consider advantages and disadvantages, to accept that others' beliefs may vary from their own, and to align their own actions and behaviours with their personal beliefs. Using environmental education activities the researcher aims to help learners clarify their environmental values as environmental education activities can not only be interesting and fun, but can also have a powerful impact on students' interest in and awareness of environmental problems. As the clarification of environmental values contains a highly subjective component, use is made of a combined method research strategy. The quantitative research component takes place through a pre- and post-test test with an experimental and a control group. During the pre- and post-test a standardised questionnaire is used whilst the interventions take the form of an environmental education activity. A qualitative, collective case study design forms the qualitative part of the combined method, through observation during the activity and focus group interviews thereafter. Three schools that are part of the project "Education for sustainable living", where schools pay attention to the environment through the implementation of environmental management principles, were selected for participation. The findings indicate that learners that were exposed to the activity are confronted with their own environmental values and attitudes whilst being forced to seriously, honestly andcritically reflect on his / her own values regarding specific environmental issues in the activity. / Thesis (MEd (Curriculum Development))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2013.