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101 Citations
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37 Pages

14 September 2012

The present article challenges the prevailing perception in the field of environmental education that acquisition of environmental behavior is an ultimate goal of the educational process, in comparison to acquisition of environmental attitudes, which...

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  • Open Access
78 Citations
7,955 Views
17 Pages

As the value form of public access to environmental information, the impact of social capital on pro-environmental behavior cannot be ignored. Based on the data of the Chinese General Social Survey 2013 (CGSS2013), this study measures social capital...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
949 Views
17 Pages

The Effect of Eco-Recreational and Environmental Attitudes on Environmental Behavior

  • Akyay Uygur,
  • Halise Dilek Sevin,
  • Ozgur Yayla and
  • Orhun Topaçoğlu

27 November 2025

The main purpose of this study is to analyze the effects of environmental (New Environmental Paradigm) and eco-recreational attitudes on environmental behavior using structural equation modeling (SEM). In the context of increasing environmental probl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,696 Views
12 Pages

Healthy Behavior and Environmental Behavior Correlate with Bicycle Commuting

  • Qiang Liu,
  • Toshiaki Yamada,
  • Hang Liu,
  • Li Lin and
  • Qiaoling Fang

Previous studies have identified that environmental awareness correlates with the choice of bicycle travel. However, few studies have considered the relationships with different types of healthy behaviors and environmental behaviors. This study exami...

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  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,227 Views
18 Pages

23 July 2022

Environmental regulation is an institutional guarantee for achieving green and sustainable economic development, and the implementation effect of environmental regulation policies is a concern for all sectors of society. This paper empirically examin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
95 Citations
13,005 Views
18 Pages

Mixed evidence exists regarding the relationship between environmental risk perception and pro-environmental behavior. This study uses an existing online survey conducted by the Center of Ecological Civilization (CEC) of China University of Geoscienc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,772 Views
17 Pages

Measuring Pro-Environmental Behavior Triggered by Environmental Values

  • Nuryazmin Ahmat Zainuri,
  • Norshariani Abd-Rahman,
  • Lilia Halim,
  • Mee Yeang Chan and
  • Nisa Nadirah Mohd Bazari

Pro-environmental behavior in addressing climate change is influenced by multi-dimensional factors—knowledge, values, intention and sociodemographic background. Correlational studies between environmental values and environmental behaviors have...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,168 Views
12 Pages

Predicting Pro-Environmental Behavior: The Leading Influence of Environmental Attitudes

  • Velina Hristova,
  • Kaloyan Haralampiev,
  • Ivo Vlaev and
  • Sonya Karabeliova

2 March 2025

This study explored the psychological determinants of pro-environmental behaviors through a multidimensional approach, integrating the roles of self-efficacy, personality traits and environmental attitudes (verbal, actual and affective commitment). W...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,720 Views
12 Pages

16 November 2020

Controlled experimentation is critical for understanding the causal determinants of pro-environmental behavior. However, the potential of experimental pro-environmental behavior research is limited by the difficulty to observe pro-environmental behav...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,416 Views
26 Pages

The Average Direct, Indirect and Total Effects of Environmental Concern on Pro-Environmental Behavior

  • Anastasia Hernández-Alemán,
  • Noelia Cruz-Pérez and
  • Juan C. Santamarta

7 August 2024

This research is framed in behavioral economics. This area tests the orthodox assumptions that individuals are rational, self-interested and possess all freely available information, and. Behavioral economics plays an important role for policymakers...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,761 Views
24 Pages

9 January 2025

Promoting pro-environmental behaviors among individuals in the community is crucial to increase community resilience and to address environmental challenges. However, a persistent intention–behavior gap often exists, particularly in separate pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,179 Views
22 Pages

Rural residents’ pro-environmental behavior plays a critical role in rural environmental governance. This paper examines how the perception of government environmental information disclosure (EID) can promote rural residents’ pro-environm...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,216 Views
12 Pages

26 August 2022

The manuscript presents a thematic analysis of a U.S. adult sample’s self-reported motives and perception of environmental activists’ motives to engage in pro-environmental behavior via a qualitative online survey. I identified themes usi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
4,598 Views
11 Pages

During the economic boom, China’s government was mainly concerned with economic development; however, numerous environmental problems have arisen. Evidence suggests that Chinese individuals’ pro-environmental behavior (PEB) is at a low le...

  • Article
  • Open Access
86 Citations
10,039 Views
16 Pages

Environmental pollution and ecological damage caused by human activities have attracted widespread attention in recent years, and while citizens’ environmental awareness and intentions have increased, their actions may not necessarily change ac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
80 Citations
11,607 Views
18 Pages

11 February 2022

We investigated the impact of environmental transformational leadership (ETL) on pro-environmental behavior (PEB) of employees in Kazakhstan. The study also examined the potential mediating effect of environmental awareness and green human resource m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
83 Citations
13,406 Views
17 Pages

Human-Environment System Knowledge: A Correlate of Pro-Environmental Behavior

  • Pablo Díaz-Siefer,
  • Alexander Neaman,
  • Eduardo Salgado,
  • Juan L. Celis-Diez and
  • Siegmar Otto

20 November 2015

An effective program of environmental education requires the identification of the knowledge that must be imparted. This paper compares the effects of human-environment system knowledge (i.e., knowledge related to environmental problems caused by hum...

  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
10,669 Views
21 Pages

The Relative Role of Knowledge and Empathy in Predicting Pro-Environmental Attitudes and Behavior

  • Marina Ienna,
  • Amelia Rofe,
  • Monica Gendi,
  • Heather E. Douglas,
  • Michelle Kelly,
  • Matthew W. Hayward,
  • Alex Callen,
  • Kaya Klop-Toker,
  • Robert J. Scanlon and
  • Andrea S. Griffin
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12 April 2022

Planet Earth is undergoing unprecedented levels of environmental degradation and destruction at a global scale. Incentivizing people to adopt behaviors that are compatible with a sustainable future will help address the current ecological crisis. How...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,511 Views
19 Pages

17 July 2024

Despite the lengthy history of the research on destination image from various perspectives, how pro-environmental destination image promotes resident environmental citizenship behavior remains underexplored. Grounded in the cognition–affect&nda...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,112 Views
14 Pages

Environmental consciousness is linked to pro-environmental consumption behavior; however, the consequences of variations in the level of environmental consciousness have not been fully investigated. Therefore, we evaluated differences in individualis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
10,369 Views
15 Pages

24 November 2021

Pakistan has been blessed with rich tourism potential because of its rich history, culture, biological and geographical diversity. Travelers have for quite some time been attracted to Pakistan to encounter a nation that flaunts rugged natural beauty,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,758 Views
35 Pages

5 December 2023

With rising global environmental concerns, businesses are prioritizing environmental preservation alongside economic growth. This research investigates the influence of environmental leadership on corporate green culture, environmental management, st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
8,227 Views
15 Pages

As environmental protection has gradually become the focus of enterprises’ development, employee green behavior becomes an important and key antecedent to study this issue, but there have been less studies conducted with knowledge management. As a re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,166 Views
22 Pages

25 December 2024

Environmental education is one of the main functions of China’s national parks, and it also plays a crucial role in the construction of an ecological civilization. Compared with the rest of Asia, the inception of national parks in China occurre...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,985 Views
19 Pages

16 September 2021

Environmental behavior has become one of the most important research areas in the field of sustainable development in recent years. Based on 818 papers on environmental behavior in the Web of Science database from 2002 to 2020, this paper uses CiteSp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
71 Citations
14,953 Views
19 Pages

30 September 2019

Feeling guilty about the occurrence of environmental problems is not uncommon; however, not everyone experiences it. Why are there such individual differences? Considering that guilt is a predominantly interpersonal phenomenon, as emotion research ha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,768 Views
21 Pages

3 September 2024

Environmental awareness and behavior play a crucial role in the improvement of the environment. Five dimensions of environmental awareness are considered here including environmental values, environmental knowledge, environmental responsibility, envi...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,708 Views
12 Pages

2 January 2020

The purpose of this study is to explore how pro-environmental energy behavior is manifested at a military unit and what behavioral change factors can enhance such behavior. The military unit represents an organization dominated by an exceptionally st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,002 Views
11 Pages

17 November 2023

Consumer behavior contributes to the environmental crisis worldwide. This study examines the influence of horizontal and vertical individualism and collectivism (HVIC) on pro-environmental purchasing behavior based on environmental self-identity. We...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,511 Views
17 Pages

1 April 2020

Although the positive relationship between religion and environmental behavior has aroused heated debate, empirical research on the relationship between religion and public pro-environmental behavior is still relatively insufficient. This paper aims...

  • Article
  • Open Access
82 Citations
14,569 Views
26 Pages

Environmental Behavior of Youth and Sustainable Development

  • Anna Shutaleva,
  • Nikita Martyushev,
  • Zhanna Nikonova,
  • Irina Savchenko,
  • Sofya Abramova,
  • Vladlena Lubimova and
  • Anastasia Novgorodtseva

27 December 2021

The relationship between people and nature is one of the most important current issues of human survival. This circumstance makes it necessary to educate young people who are receptive to global challenges and ready to solve the urgent problems of ou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
80 Citations
9,901 Views
17 Pages

Corporate Environmental Strategy and Voluntary Environmental Behavior—Mediating Effect of Psychological Green Climate

  • Anupam Kumar Das,
  • Shetu Ranjan Biswas,
  • Munshi Muhammad Abdul Kader Jilani and
  • Md. Aftab Uddin

3 June 2019

Given the growing intent to prevent decay in environmental management, the present study seeks to unearth the impact of corporate environmental strategy on employees’ voluntary environmental behavior by regulating or facilitating their perceive...

  • Article
  • Open Access
263 Citations
25,651 Views
19 Pages

16 June 2019

The promotion of pro-environmental behavior is regarded as very important in solving environmental problems. The Value-Belief-Norm (VBN) theory usually emphasizes internal factors; however, we have transformed this theory by including the environment...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,413 Views
20 Pages

2 September 2024

Pro-environmental behavior (PEB) is an essential source for solving environmental problems and implementing sustainable development. This study reveals the antecedent mechanisms of PEB from the joint perspective of environmental policy perception (EP...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,009 Views
31 Pages

Structural Equation Modeling for Analyzing Pro-Environmental Behavior in Switzerland

  • Emilio Cedrún-Vázquez,
  • Juan E. Núñez-Ríos,
  • Jacqueline Y. Sánchez-García,
  • Guillermo Sosa-Gómez and
  • Omar Rojas

17 April 2025

Using data from Round 11 of the European Social Survey, covering Switzerland, this article employs Structural Equation Modeling to investigate the associations between psychosocial factors and pro-environmental behavior. Based on the Theory of Planne...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,222 Views
19 Pages

16 March 2023

This paper is a retrospective over a 20-year period that aims to show the research techniques on pro-environmental behavior and the incidence of Sustainable Development (SD) in Environmental Education (EE). Network bibliometrics was conducted, integr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,756 Views
24 Pages

Compliance Behavior in Environmental Tax Policy

  • Suci Lestari Hakam,
  • Agus Rahayu,
  • Lili Adi Wibowo,
  • Lazuardi Imani Hakam,
  • Muhamad Adhi Nugroho and
  • Siti Sarah Fuadi

This study examines compliance behavior in the context of environmental tax policies, highlighting the essential role that these policies play in achieving the objectives of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Environmental taxes are crucial in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
7,675 Views
15 Pages

24 July 2017

The present study was aimed at measuring citizens’ behavior intention (BI) regarding mandatory and voluntary pro-environmental programs. Two pro-environmental activities, which consist of an environmental impact assessment (EIA) as a mandatory progra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
9,627 Views
17 Pages

23 June 2021

Over the last few years, many activities conducted by university employees have contributed greatly to the global rise of greenhouse gases responsible for the warming of the planet. This phenomenon can be attributed primarily to altering lifestyle, c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
142 Views
21 Pages

12 March 2026

Prior research on tour guides’ influence on tourists’ pro-environmental behavior has largely emphasized informational content (e.g., interpretation) and communication tactics (e.g., humor), while leaving the social-influence role of guide...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,733 Views
12 Pages

1 June 2024

Pro-environmental behaviors have been confirmed as an essential source of sustainable development. However, there is limited research exploring its antecedents from the perspective of organizational management mechanisms (e.g., environmental leadersh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
9,938 Views
17 Pages

Achieving Sustainable Tourism: Analysis of the Impact of Environmental Education on Tourists’ Responsible Behavior

  • Jinming Wang,
  • Jialu Dai,
  • Weijun Gao,
  • Xingbo Yao,
  • Bart Julien Dewancker,
  • Jiawei Gao,
  • Yuhan Wang and
  • Jiayi Zeng

9 January 2024

Environmental challenges like resource depletion, climate change, and biodiversity loss require human action. Environmental education influences individuals’ understanding and motivates responsible behavior, making it a real solution to address...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
9,276 Views
18 Pages

11 January 2023

This study examines the effects of environmental management practices on environmental knowledge and environmentally responsible behavior by means of an environmental commitment moderator variable regarding the hotel employees in Manavgat–T&uum...

  • Article
  • Open Access
74 Citations
15,957 Views
28 Pages

4 August 2014

Recent studies have begun to bridge the gap between general and workplace pro-environmental behavior by adapting specific existing behavioral models to the workplace environment. This conceptual article proposes a different approach by synthesizing t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,428 Views
17 Pages

The Impact of Environmental Commitment on Green Purchase Behavior in China

  • Xixiang Sun,
  • Ziyuan Tian,
  • Jianguo Wang and
  • Weihuan Su

There is no consensus on whether environmental commitment can promote green purchase behavior. Especially in the Chinese context, the validity and internal mechanism of the impact of environmental commitment on green purchase behavior have not been d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,804 Views
15 Pages

26 March 2019

Environmental issues are often discussed in purity-related terms. For instance, pollution, contamination, toxicity, and degradation are all concepts that can evoke notions of (im)purity in an environmental context. In this paper, we assess the effica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
9,809 Views
18 Pages

6 September 2016

China’s astonishing economic development over the last decades has produced a momentous impact on the country’s environmental equilibrium. Chinese officials are now confronted with the need to tackle environmental problems without disrupting the coun...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,956 Views
16 Pages

27 July 2020

Faced with the depletion of natural resources and climate change, individuals making the choice to behave in a more environmentally conscious way is increasingly necessary. Rational choice theory suggests that individuals will only behave in pro-envi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,400 Views
16 Pages

Environmental Behavior and Remediation Methods of Roxarsone

  • Yaci Liu,
  • Mengtuo Wen,
  • Lin Wu,
  • Shengwei Cao and
  • Yasong Li

28 July 2022

Roxarsone (ROX) is used extensively in the broiler chicken industry, and most is excreted in poultry litter. ROX degradation produces inorganic arsenic, which causes arsenic contamination of soil and aquatic environment. Furthermore, elevated arsenic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
8,395 Views
19 Pages

25 July 2021

The current study attempted to understand factors influencing students’ pro-environmental intentions and behaviors in a developing nation, namely Iran. To do so, a theoretical research model was established by adding media use and environmental knowl...

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