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New Frontiers in Environmental Citizenship and Risk Management of Sustainability

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2022) | Viewed by 11799

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Tai-Yi Yu

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Department of Risk Management, Ming Chuan University, Taipei 111, Taiwan
Interests: artificial intelligence; risk assessment; multivariate analysis; sustainable education
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Prof. Dr. Cheng-Min Chao

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Department of Business Administration, National Taichung University of Science and Technology, Taichung 404, Taiwan
Interests: sustainability; environmental management; data analysis
Prof. Dr. Yu-Chi Tseng

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Department of Science Education and Application, National Taichung University of Education, Taichung 403454, Taiwan
Interests: environmental education; climate change education; conservation psychology

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, environmental citizenship and risk management in sustainability have received significant attention in academic fields. Environmental citizenship is regarded as a specific concept of pro-environmental behaviors of citizens who participate in society to solve environmental problems, prevent emergent environmental risks, achieve sustainability, and develop a healthy relationship with nature. The explorations of theoretical and empirical studies on environmental citizenship of individuals/organizations are several aspects that deserve further consideration in environmental decision-making. Environmental citizenship is also a crucial concept to sustainable development. Risk management in sustainability, a new idea of risk management or an extension to the enterprise risk management (ERM) concept refers to a comprehensive risk management strategy caused by sustainability issues (such as climate change, resource depletion, and natural disasters). In addition to the shareholders’ values, the concept of risk management in sustainability also incorporates the environmental and societal aspects for enterprise survival.

Therefore, we invite both theoretical and empirical evidence covering a wide range of multidisciplinary aspects related to environmental citizenship and risk management in sustainability. In particular, selected topics will include but are not be limited to:

  • Environmental citizenship/pro-environmental behaviors of individuals/organizations;
  • Sustainable education for environmental citizenship;
  • Perceptions of environmental citizenship for stakeholders;
  • Organizational risk management in sustainability;
  • Empirical studies of risk management in sustainability.

Prof. Dr. Tai-Yi Yu
Prof. Dr. Cheng-Min Chao
Prof. Dr. Yu-Chi Tseng
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • pro-environmental behavior
  • sustainability education
  • risk management
  • environmental citizenship
  • individual behavior
  • organizational behavior
  • sustainability education
  • sustainable development

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Reliability and Validity of Widely Used International Surveys on the Environment
by Joseph Paul Lavallee, Bruno Di Giusto, Tai-Yi Yu and Su-Pin Hung
Sustainability 2022, 14(18), 11337; https://doi.org/10.3390/su141811337 - 09 Sep 2022
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Do existing public opinion surveys provide valid and reliable measures of attitudes towards environmental sustainability? This question is critical given the importance of public support for achieving sustainability. Starting with 28 survey items about the environment drawn from the World Values Survey Waves [...] Read more.
Do existing public opinion surveys provide valid and reliable measures of attitudes towards environmental sustainability? This question is critical given the importance of public support for achieving sustainability. Starting with 28 survey items about the environment drawn from the World Values Survey Waves 5 and 6 and the 2010 International Social Survey Program, we assessed reliability by checking for significant correlations between similar or identical items on different surveys. Next, to assess validity, we evaluated correlations between survey items and 22 objective environmental indicators drawn from the Environmental Performance Index (EPI). As the level of economic development is a likely confound, we also performed partial correlation analyses controlling for GDP per capita. From the initial 28 items, we identified 23 sufficiently reliable items, but many of these were found to have low predictive power in the validity analysis. Items about air and water pollution were valid predictors of objective environmental conditions in these areas. Items asking about the relative importance of environmental problems compared to other social issues were also good positive predictors of progress on perceptible environmental issues. Items asking about general sentiment with no clear referent performed poorly. When controlling for GDP, country-level attitudes were more aligned with country-specific environmental conditions. Finally, nearly half of all EPI indicators were associated with few or no survey items, indicating the existence of ‘blind spots’ in public awareness. Our findings should offer guidance to both survey developers and users, as well as to policy makers responsible for conveying information about environmental sustainability to the wider public. Full article
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The Sustainable Innovation Design in Catering Service
by Jen-Chieh Chung, Yung-Fu Huang, Ming-Wei Weng and Ju-Chen Lin
Sustainability 2022, 14(1), 278; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14010278 - 28 Dec 2021
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COVID-19 has impacted the whole world since 2019, especially the dietary patterns of customers. Before the pandemic, some companies had been monitoring the operation data for health and food safety situations. It has become a vital mission to improve the food production and [...] Read more.
COVID-19 has impacted the whole world since 2019, especially the dietary patterns of customers. Before the pandemic, some companies had been monitoring the operation data for health and food safety situations. It has become a vital mission to improve the food production and service process if the companies wish to pursue the sustainability of their businesses due to the general environment being changed by the epidemic. The sustainability of food systems inherently implies not only customer satisfaction but also the saving of costs. The catering service must find new ways to increase customer loyalty and satisfaction while implementing improved practices for building their brand image and modern decoration. The objective of this article is to discuss the service innovation process in order to investigate the interrelationships of catering environmental policy and psychological effects in the service function. The data were collected from a DINESERV questionnaire, comprised service quality standards, to increase the customer satisfaction for a mobile dining car. Finally, the TRIZ or Kano is a standardized measure designed to improve the idealization of strategy for selecting the most appropriate service quality model. This study presents the results from the survey and discusses future perspectives of increasing the sustainability of service within a catering information system. Full article
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