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  • Article
  • Open Access
74 Citations
12,688 Views
16 Pages

26 May 2022

Pro-environmental behaviour (PEB) helps individuals to minimize the negative effects of their actions on the environment; for example, by recycling and reducing energy consumption. This study aimed to explore consumers’ attitudes and trust in e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
110 Citations
13,386 Views
18 Pages

7 August 2019

This study aims to investigate the role of environmental system knowledge in promoting pro-environmental behaviors. Relationships between environmental knowledge and environmental attitudes as well as environmental knowledge and pro-environmental beh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
83 Citations
13,352 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
1 Citations
1,739 Views
11 Pages

An approach to the effect of environmental subjects on the environmental knowledge of undergraduates in Engineering was examined in this work. Two subjects, common to five different Engineering degrees (Industrial, Electric and Electronic, Mechanic,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
5,624 Views
18 Pages

7 March 2023

Scientists and conservationists suggest species knowledge as a possible starting point when it comes to creating deeper knowledge and awareness of nature, the environment, and biodiversity. The aim of this work was to analyze secondary school student...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,538 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
11 Citations
10,668 Views
11 Pages

11 January 2023

As our planet faces more frequent and severe environmental threats due to climate change (including threats to biodiversity), environmental justice will be essential to ensure that the costs and burdens of combating these threats are shared equally,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
8,147 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
21 Citations
5,322 Views
12 Pages

29 June 2022

Water conservation represents a typical green behavior and a sustainable lifestyle. Understanding residents’ water conservation behaviors is a prerequisite for promoting more water savers. Using the snowball sampling technique, this study condu...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,797 Views
2 Pages

Environmental education, as defined by Hadjichambis et al., is effective when it combines knowledge types as well as organizational and management forms. Formal, informal and non-formal education are mediators of other types of knowledge, and partici...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,324 Views
27 Pages

Exploring Industrial Engineering Knowledge and Environmental Sustainability

  • Meelan Roopa,
  • Rajenlall Siriram and
  • Rojanette Coetzee

27 August 2024

This research identifies the relationship between industrial engineering and environmental sustainability knowledge components. A combination of a systematic literature review (SLR) and applied thematic analysis (ATA) is employed to uncover the perti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,879 Views
17 Pages

An Assessment of Environmental Knowledge in a Highly Biodiverse Mountainous Region of Mexico

  • Carlos I. García-Jiménez,
  • Yalma L. Vargas-Rodriguez,
  • Brenda Yarely Quiroz-Caro and
  • Karina García-Valadez

22 January 2022

The environmental knowledge of inhabitants residing in a highly biodiverse mountainous region of western Mexico with an important economic forestry sector was investigated. Indices of environmental knowledge, by average and through a factor analysis,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
9,124 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
91 Citations
11,920 Views
16 Pages

31 August 2018

Jeju Island is a popular destination in South Korea that is dependent on nature-based tourism. The annual increase in the influx of visitors has created major environmental impacts due to overuse and commercial expansion. With projected growth in arr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,471 Views
25 Pages

Knowledge in Regard to Environmental Problems among University Students in Cali, Colombia

  • Silvia A. Quijano,
  • Victor Alfonso Cerón,
  • Carlos Eduardo Guevera-Fletcher,
  • Iván Mauricio Bermúdez,
  • César Augusto Gutiérrez and
  • Jonathan S. Pelegrin

26 October 2023

The purpose of this research was to understand the level of environmental knowledge among students at Santiago de Cali University (USC) and to evaluate the differences found based on school, gender, and age groups. To gather data, a survey that inclu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,681 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
2 Citations
1,912 Views
15 Pages

29 September 2024

Air pollution has become an important environmental and public health problem in China; improving air quality has become one of the most important tasks of the Chinese central government in recent years. In all aspects of environmental governance, th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
10,527 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
  • + 1 author

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
260 Citations
25,412 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
4 Citations
4,603 Views
21 Pages

30 December 2022

Despite the extant literature that discusses the potentiality of environmental identity in shaping people’s engagement with nature, there is little evidence of which specific domains of environmental attitudes and knowledge are connected with e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,087 Views
18 Pages

5 March 2021

Permanent access to safe drinking water is guaranteed in most industrialized countries, while climate change is turning it into a serious global issue. Knowing how to use the valuable resource water consciously and sustainably requires well-informed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
114 Citations
14,417 Views
23 Pages

8 March 2023

Sustainable consumption is one of the goals of the ‘Sustainable Development Goals 2030′ set by the United Nations. The study is primarily interested in how sustainable consumption behavior can be fostered through environmental knowledge,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,283 Views
14 Pages

Environmental Health Knowledge Does Not Necessarily Translate to Action in Youth

  • Shereen Elshaer,
  • Lisa J. Martin,
  • Theresa A. Baker,
  • Erin Roberts,
  • Paola Rios-Santiago,
  • Ross Kaufhold and
  • Melinda Butsch Kovacic

Environmental challenges pose serious health problems, especially for children, and lay public action is lacking. This study sought to characterize the relationship between environmental health knowledge and behavior in youth. A cross-sectional, desc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
19,001 Views
16 Pages

Environmental Care Attitudes and Intention to Purchase Green Products: Impact of Environmental Knowledge, Word of Mouth, and Green Marketing

  • Megawati Simanjuntak,
  • Nidya Luthfi Nafila,
  • Lilik Noor Yuliati,
  • Irni Rahmayani Johan,
  • Mukhamad Najib and
  • Mohamad Fazli Sabri

20 March 2023

The intention to purchase green products cannot be separated from environmental consciousness among people. This study analyzes the effect of environmental knowledge, word of mouth (WOM), and green marketing on environmental care attitudes and the in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,369 Views
15 Pages

26 June 2023

Due to increasing concern about climate change and its impact on the tourism sector, it is vital to understand tourists’ decision-making process in relation to staying in green accommodations. Many factors influence tourists’ decision-mak...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,237 Views
21 Pages

Community Environmental Leadership and Sustainability: Building Knowledge from the Local Level

  • Concepción Rojas Casarrubias,
  • José Luis Aparicio López,
  • Columba Rodríguez Alviso,
  • Mirna Castro Bello and
  • Salvador Villerías Salinas

17 April 2025

The objective of this study was to document an experience of training community environmental leaders in the context of sustainable development in localities surrounding the Chautengo Lagoon, Guerrero, Mexico. Specifically, we explored the epistemolo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,645 Views
18 Pages

17 April 2019

Open innovation theory believes that external knowledge acquisition is the key to gaining competitive advantage. This research aimed to examine the relationship between external knowledge acquisition, environmental innovation, and performance of smal...

  • Abstract
  • Open Access
1,813 Views
2 Pages

One of the dimensions of environmental citizenship is related to the understanding of the structural causes of environmental degradation and it also emphasizes the empowerment of citizens. With increasing threats from climate change impacts, the Unit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,708 Views
14 Pages

In this study, the Wadden Sea, as an out-of-school learning site, is considered from an empirical-research perspective of environmental education. The Wadden Sea in Germany is part of the largest contiguous mudflat area in the world. Although much ev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,328 Views
17 Pages

29 February 2024

Despite its importance, environmental law has largely been ignored in environmental knowledge bases. This may be due to the fact that legal issues may not, strictly speaking, be considered scientific knowledge in environmental knowledge resources, wh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
6,440 Views
19 Pages

6 March 2020

Global biodiversity declines at unprecedented rates, mainly due to human-induced environmental change. Biodiversity conservation is, thus, highly dependent on responsible and sustainable citizenship. Educational efforts are regarded as an important m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
995 Views
19 Pages

17 November 2025

Enterprises engaged in transnational operations are confronted with increasingly complex environmental policies and compliance challenges. A critical hurdle to achieving sustainable development lies in rapidly and accurately extracting environmental...

  • Article
  • Open Access
80 Citations
15,404 Views
16 Pages

The livestock industry has numerous and diverse impacts on the environment. In a cross-sectional study using an online questionnaire, 361 students were asked about their knowledge, attitudes, and behavior related to the environmental impact caused by...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,802 Views
24 Pages

17 January 2025

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are pivotal in driving economic growth and sustainability, necessitating a strategic focus on innovation and knowledge application to navigate dynamic markets effectively. Grounded in the Natural Resource-Bas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
6,654 Views
12 Pages

Advancing Environmental Health Literacy: Validated Scales of General Environmental Health and Environmental Media-Specific Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviors

  • Maureen Y. Lichtveld,
  • Hannah H. Covert,
  • Mya Sherman,
  • Arti Shankar,
  • Jeffrey K. Wickliffe and
  • Cecilia S. Alcala

Environmental health literacy (EHL) involves understanding and using environmental information to make decisions about health. This study developed a validated survey instrument with four scales for assessing media-specific (i.e., air, food, water) a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,018 Views
18 Pages

Analysis of Knowledge Graph: Hotspots and Future Trends in Environmental Education Research

  • Yongli Tian,
  • Yuchang Jin,
  • Yadi Zhao,
  • Yifan Du,
  • Sicen Shen and
  • Junxiu An

13 March 2024

Currently, as human society develops, environmental issues have become one of the significant challenges faced by humanity. Consequently, environmental education has emerged in response to this need. Environmental education aims to cultivate citizens...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,411 Views
23 Pages

1 November 2022

Considering the evolution of the spatial pattern of regional economic growth in China, this paper analyzes whether environmental regulation (ER) and environmental knowledge spillover (EKS) contribute to regional economic growth using panel data and t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
8,938 Views
18 Pages

13 December 2024

This study examines how the green marketing mix—comprising green product, price, place, and promotion—affects consumers’ environmental attitudes and green purchase intentions, incorporating environmental knowledge as a moderating fa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,097 Views
20 Pages

6 June 2025

Encouraging farmers to adopt pro-environmental practices for the management of rural solid waste is a sustainable solution that can prevent significant harm to rural residents. However, there is limited research focused on the pro-environmental behav...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
12,280 Views
24 Pages

Within Canadian Aboriginal communities, the process for utilizing environmental health research evidence in the development of policies and programs is not well understood. This fundamental qualitative descriptive study explored the perceptions of 28...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
8,868 Views
12 Pages

22 July 2024

The increasing global focus on environmental sustainability has led to a growing emphasis on green purchase behavior. The theory of planned behavior (TPB) is one of the classical theories used to understand individual green purchase behavior from the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
8,541 Views
15 Pages

28 January 2020

Affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy consumption is a crucial goal of the Agenda 2030. To raise each citizen’s awareness for more effective energy consumptions, proper education is necessary. The classroom project GAIA (Green Awa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
90 Citations
20,909 Views
15 Pages

To achieve substantial and sustainable levels of separation of municipal solid waste (MSW), it is essential to engage young people as they are important drivers of change and will have a major influence on the future of the world. This study aimed to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,901 Views
18 Pages

23 February 2024

A blue jeans brand committed to the environmental cause could position itself as unique and socially responsible and attract environmentally driven consumers. This research study examines the relationship between brand love and consumers’ envir...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,651 Views
21 Pages

Does Plant Knowledge within Urban Forests and Parks Directly Influence Visitor Pro-Environmental Behaviors

  • Beyza Sat Gungor,
  • Jiquan Chen,
  • Susie R. Wu,
  • Peiling Zhou and
  • Gabriela Shirkey

28 March 2018

Urban parks and forests provide many services to society and are becoming essential components within urban landscapes worldwide. While substantial research and actions have been taken to understand various ecosystem services of urban forests and par...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,982 Views
19 Pages

The premise of this research is to investigate the influence of an ethical climate on the environmentally responsible behavior of employees within the accommodation sector in Pakistan. We further seek to understand this connection through the interme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,648 Views
11 Pages

27 June 2018

We describe a student-centered, hands-on conservational program designed to alter adolescent environmental values and cognitive knowledge. The values (defined as sets of attitudes towards nature conservation) were measured using the 2-MEV scale (Two...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,476 Views
11 Pages

Namibian Healthcare Professionals’ Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Regarding Environmental Sustainability in Healthcare

  • Helga Elke Lister,
  • Karien Mostert,
  • Gopika Ramkilawon,
  • Cathrine Oelschig,
  • Olwethu Ntiyane,
  • Erika Richardt,
  • Deonelia Paulo Da Silva Rocha,
  • Savannah Sheerin,
  • Tshepang Phaahla and
  • Filip Maric
  • + 3 authors

Among the many actions required to avert further intensification of today’s social, ecological and health crises is also the improvement of healthcare’s environmental sustainability, including in countries particularly vulnerable to such...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,639 Views
12 Pages

This study aimed to identify the key factors that may influence farmers’ support for organic farming, which is an eco-friendly approach that nourishes the productivity of agricultural and ecological systems. To explore farmers’ adoption o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,001 Views
17 Pages

4 September 2025

The article explores how pro-environmental action relates to knowledge processes and fosters transformative changes in vulnerable settings. Drawing on eleven pro-environmental initiatives in five countries (Bulgaria, Hungary, Portugal, Romania and T&...

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