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- Title
Factors Influencing Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors: A U.K. Case Study of Household Waste Management.
- Authors
Barr, Stewart
- Abstract
Three waste management behaviors (waste reduction, reuse, and recycling) were examined with the use of a conceptual framework developed by the author. It was posited that environmental values, situational characteristics, and psychological factors all play a significant role in the prediction of waste management behavior, within the context of a core intention-behavior relationship. The framework was tested in a self-report questionnaire of 673 residents of Exeter, UK. It was found that the predictors of reduction, reuse, and recycling behavior differed significantly, with reduction and reuse being predicted by underlying environmental values, knowledge, and concern-based variables. Recycling behavior was, in contrast, characterized as highly normative behavior. The use of the approach taken for investigating other environmental behaviors is examined.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; WASTE management; ENVIRONMENTAL impact analysis; WASTE minimization; RECYCLED products; HOUSEHOLD ecology; ENVIRONMENTALISM; WASTE products; GLOBAL warming; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Environment & Behavior, 2007, Vol 39, Issue 4, p435
- ISSN
0013-9165
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0013916505283421