Roles of Environmental System Knowledge in Promoting University Students’ Environmental Attitudes and Pro-Environmental Behaviors

Understanding Attitudes and Pro-Environmental Behaviors in a Chilean Community

Environmental protection and restoration are some of the major challenges faced by our society. To address this problem, it is fundamental to understand pro-environmental behaviors in the population, as well as the factors that determine them. There are, however, very few studies conducted in Latin America that are focused in understanding the environmental behavior of its citizens. The main go...

Factors Affecting Pro-Environmental Attitudes

Using data from the fifth wave of the World Values Survey (2005-2008), this study examined the relationship between affluence, post-materialist values, and pro-environmental attitudes from individuals from Morocco, Uruguay, Sweden, and the United States. Demographic variables were also analyzed to determine which factors were the best predictors of pro-environmental attitudes from each of the f...

Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors in the Philippines

Data from the environment modules of the International Social Survey Programme in 1993, 2000, and 2010 were analyzed to explore attitudinal dimensions, trends and significant predictors of public and private behavior in the Philippines. Factor analyses of attitude items indicate a consistent grouping of negatively connoted perceptions towards nature and science in the three datasets. A series o...

University Students’ Subjective Knowledge of Green Computing and Pro-Environmental Behavior

This cross-sectional survey examined the structure of university students’ subjective knowledge of green computing–hypothesized to be a multidimensional construct with three important dimensions–and its association with pro-environmental behavior (PEB). Using a previously validated green computing questionnaire, data were collected from 842 undergraduate students attending ten different public ...

Young Children’s Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors