environment, environmental protection and sustainability policies play a key role in social development and in the economic competitiveness of industrialized countries. most european citizens are aware of the importance of environmental issues, both as a priority for the socio-economic system as a whole, and as a relevant factor in influencing quality of life. at the same time individual enviro...

The research reported in the present paper focused on psychological aspects of outdoor recreation, and on the relation between psychological variables and economic measures of value in the form of willingness to pay. The conceptual framework for this research was provided by the theory of planned behaviour (Ajzen, 1988; Ajzen and Madden, 1986). The theory's basic concepts are intention to perfo...

Acute hunger leads to self-protective behaviour, where people keep resources themselves. However, little is known about whether acute influences individuals' inclination engage in unethical behaviour for direct monetary gains. Past research moral psychology has found that are less likely cheat than non-monetary Integrating on scarcity into the study of economic we predicted increases cheating W...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to investigate the simultaneous presence of risk factors for non-communicable diseases and the association of these risk factors with demographic and economic factors among adolescents from southern Brazil. METHODS The study included 916 students (14-19 years old) enrolled in the 2014 school year at state schools in São José, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Risk...

Economics is often used as a label for that part of the social world concerned with the acquisition, management, and distribution of assets (e.g., buying, borrowing, bargaining, banking), and for the most part this convenient approach is taken here. But it is inevitable, given that the concept of economic behaviour is culturally and historically determined, that the boundary between the economi...

BACKGROUND Microeconomic evaluations of public health programmes such as immunisation typically only consider direct health benefits and medical cost savings. Broader economic benefits around childhood development, household behaviour, and macro-economic indicators are increasingly important, but the evidence linking immunization to such benefits is unclear. METHODS A conceptual framework of ...

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