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What Influences Environmental Behavior?

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Social Ecology and Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 July 2023) | Viewed by 5867

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Wenbo Li

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Business School, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou 221116, China
Interests: energy and environmental management; environmental behavior; environmental accounting
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Prof. Dr. Ruyin Long

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Guest Editor
School of Business, Jiangnan University, China
Interests: behavioral decision-making and green consumption; energy and environmental economic policies
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Greenhouse gas emissions from human behavior are rapidly increasing, and climate change has become the most serious challenge for the world. The carbon-neutral target is a common value pursued by all countries in the world to deal with climate change. The realization of this target does not only rely on the adoption of more sustainable, efficient, and advanced technology: environmentally conscious behavior can also be implemented by enterprises and the public. However, traditional environmental behavior studies face a challenge in the development of emerging technologies (such as big data and artificial intelligence) and change in external conditions (such as the COVID-19 outbreak). Therefore, it is necessary to identify factors that influence environmental behavior under present economic and social conditions. As a response to such an issue, we are organizing a Special Issue in this area.

We would like to invite colleagues to submit papers including research papers, communications, and review articles for our consideration. We welcome the submission of papers including, but not limited to, the following topics:

  • Psychological factors influencing environmental behavior;
  • External conditions influencing environmental behavior;
  • Rational choice, preference, and utility of environmental behavior;
  • Guiding strategies for environmental behavior;
  • Environmental behavior and emerging technologies;
  • Environmental behavior and COVID-19 outbreak;
  • The carbon-footprint- and emission-reduction effect of environmental behavior;
  • Environmental behavior study from a multidisciplinary perspective.

We look forward to receiving your response, and if there is any further information you require, please do not hesitate to contact us.

You may choose our Joint Special Issue in IJERPH.

Dr. Wenbo Li
Prof. Dr. Ruyin Long
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • environmental behavior
  • behavior guidance
  • influencing factors
  • emerging technologies
  • sustainable behavior

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Personal vs. Collective Nostalgia and Different Temporally Orientated Green Consumption
by Han Zhang, Chenhan Ruan, Lei Huang, Luluo Peng and Chuangxin Guo
Sustainability 2023, 15(19), 14624; https://doi.org/10.3390/su151914624 - 9 Oct 2023
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In the literature, there are discrepancies about how nostalgia affects green consumption. Both positive and negative relationships between nostalgia and green consumption are found, and most research treats all types of green consumption the same, neglecting the differences. This study tried to put [...] Read more.
In the literature, there are discrepancies about how nostalgia affects green consumption. Both positive and negative relationships between nostalgia and green consumption are found, and most research treats all types of green consumption the same, neglecting the differences. This study tried to put the contradictory findings together by classifying green consumption into future vs. non-future green consumption and taking collective vs. personal nostalgia into account. As far as we know, this study is the first to propose this classification of green consumption, and different patterns are found, which might drive new research. This research tested our hypotheses across four randomized controlled trials with 921 valid respondents in total. Study 1 found a negative effect of personal nostalgia on future-oriented green consumption and revealed a positive relationship between collective nostalgia and non-future green consumption. The results confirmed both positive and negative effects of nostalgia on green consumption found in previous research. Study 2 revealed that the past orientation mediated personal nostalgia’s negative effect on future-oriented green consumption and collective efficacy mediated collective nostalgia’s positive effect on non-future-oriented green consumption. Study 3 tested the moderating effect of product newness on personal nostalgia and future green consumption, and a negative moderating effect was uncovered. Study 4 found a positive moderating effect of product identity on collective nostalgia and non-future-oriented green consumption. Full article
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Research on the Impact of Energy Saving and Emission Reduction Policies on Carbon Emission Efficiency of the Yellow River Basin: A Perspective of Policy Collaboration Effect
by Lingzhi Ren, Ning Yi, Zhiying Li and Zhaoxian Su
Sustainability 2023, 15(15), 12051; https://doi.org/10.3390/su151512051 - 7 Aug 2023
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With China’s proposed carbon peak and carbon neutrality goals, energy conservation and emission reduction are becoming increasingly urgent for the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin. Based on a systematic combing through of the energy saving and emission reduction [...] Read more.
With China’s proposed carbon peak and carbon neutrality goals, energy conservation and emission reduction are becoming increasingly urgent for the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin. Based on a systematic combing through of the energy saving and emission reduction (ESER) policies in the Yellow River Basin, this paper empirically analyzed the impacts of objectives collaboration and measures collaboration of ESER policies on the carbon emission efficiency of prefecture-level cities in the Yellow River Basin, by comprehensively adopting the super-slack-based measure (Super-SBM) model and the two-way fixed-effect model. The results of the study found that: (1) with the continuous improvement in policies, the collaboration level of ESER policies in the Yellow River Basin has been significantly improved; (2) the dual-objective collaboration of ESER policies has a significant promotional effect on the carbon emission efficiency of the Yellow River Basin with a lag effect, while the impact of multi-objective collaboration is not significant; (3) the dual-measure collaboration and multi-measure collaboration of ESER policies can effectively promote the improvement in carbon emission efficiency in the Yellow River Basin. This indicates that, in terms of carbon emission reduction in the Yellow River Basin, the objective setting of ESER policies can not be too much, and should pay attention to the mutual coordination of different policy measures to strengthen the carbon reduction effect of ESER policies collaboration. Full article
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The Impact of Environmental Information Disclosure on the Efficiency of Enterprise Capital Allocation
by Weizhou Su, Nieping Wei, Zihan Yuan and Sidai Guo
Sustainability 2023, 15(14), 11215; https://doi.org/10.3390/su151411215 - 18 Jul 2023
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Environmental information disclosure has become a widely-used tool to encourage the participation of multiple market players in environmental governance. However, it remains unclear whether it can promote the efficiency of capital allocation in enterprises. This study uses econometric modeling and data from heavily [...] Read more.
Environmental information disclosure has become a widely-used tool to encourage the participation of multiple market players in environmental governance. However, it remains unclear whether it can promote the efficiency of capital allocation in enterprises. This study uses econometric modeling and data from heavily polluting enterprises in Chinese A-shares between 2013 and 2020 to explore the impact of environmental information disclosure on capital allocation efficiency, as well as its mechanisms. It is found that environmental information disclosure significantly and robustly enhances the efficiency of capital allocation, and the effect varies by firm’s size, ownership, life cycle, and region. Nevertheless, employees and creditors are found to have a negative moderating role in this effect. These findings have important implications for the simultaneous improvement of environmental performance and capital allocation efficiency in the context of China’s ecological civilization system and high-quality economic development and for promoting a “win-win” situation for environmental protection and economic growth. Full article
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Has Green Credit Improved Ecosystem Governance Performance? A Study Based on Panel Data from 31 Provinces in China
by Yiting Zhou and Ruyin Long
Sustainability 2023, 15(14), 11008; https://doi.org/10.3390/su151411008 - 13 Jul 2023
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Pollution prevention enhancement and ecological civilization construction serve as the keys to optimizing economic structure and promoting green sustainable development in China. Employing the balanced panel data of 31 provinces from 2011 to 2020, this study empirically examines the impacts of green credit [...] Read more.
Pollution prevention enhancement and ecological civilization construction serve as the keys to optimizing economic structure and promoting green sustainable development in China. Employing the balanced panel data of 31 provinces from 2011 to 2020, this study empirically examines the impacts of green credit on ecosystem governance performance. The results demonstrate that green credit can significantly contribute to the improvement of ecosystem governance performance in each province. Additionally, regional heterogeneity in the impacts of green credit on the performance of ecological environmental governance, which passed the significance test in economically developed and underdeveloped regions, eastern and non-eastern regions and resource-based and non-resource-based regions, respectively, was further confirmed. Hence, we suggest further improving the green credit policy system, continuously stimulating green financial innovation, releasing the right signals for green development and boosting the balanced development of green credit in all regions. Full article
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Evolutionary Simulation of Carbon-Neutral Behavior of Urban Citizens in a “Follow–Drive” Perspective
by Zhongwei Zhu, Tingyu Qian and Lei Liu
Sustainability 2023, 15(13), 10591; https://doi.org/10.3390/su151310591 - 5 Jul 2023
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The implementation of low-carbon behavior by citizens is of the utmost importance in constructing China’s ecological civilization and achieving its dual-carbon objectives. As a result, exploring the formation and recurrence mechanisms of carbon-neutral citizenship behavior may have a positive impact on realizing China’s [...] Read more.
The implementation of low-carbon behavior by citizens is of the utmost importance in constructing China’s ecological civilization and achieving its dual-carbon objectives. As a result, exploring the formation and recurrence mechanisms of carbon-neutral citizenship behavior may have a positive impact on realizing China’s carbon reduction targets. This study explores a comprehensive analysis method of multi-subject interactive evolution of carbon-neutral citizenship behavior. It expands the connotation of behavioral intervention from individual single execution (citizens actively adhere to carbon-neutral behavior) to multi-driven implementation (citizens inspire other residents to comply with carbon-neutral behavior based on their own adherence). Furthermore, this study constructs a collaborative and interactive “follow–drive” mechanism for carbon-neutral citizenship behavior. Through Python software 3.8 simulation, this study examines the formation and stabilization process of carbon-neutral citizenship behavior under different influencing factors. The research findings are as follows: (1) If the government neglects its duties more severely, it is more inclined to adopt incentive policies, thereby increasing the likelihood that both kinds of the citizens will choose to follow carbon-neutral behavior. This suggests that the proactive introduction of relevant policies and regulations by the government has a positive influence on citizens’ carbon-neutral behavior. (2) With a higher perceived level of psychological–physical bimetric health among citizens, both kinds of the citizens are more inclined to follow and drive carbon-neutral behavior, while the chances of the government selecting incentive policies decrease, and it takes longer to attain final stability (i.e., selecting incentive policies). (3) In situations where there is a greater loss of group norms in the external environment of the citizen group, both kinds of the citizens are more likely to opt for and drive carbon-neutral behavior. This, in turn, reduces the likelihood of the government selecting incentive policies. Finally, based on the research findings, relevant policy recommendations are given. Full article
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