Environmental quality strongly depends on human behaviour patterns. We review the contribution and the potential of environmental psychology for understanding and promoting pro-environmental behaviour. A general framework is proposed, comprising: (1) identification of the behaviour to be changed, (2) examination of the main factors underlying this behaviour, (3) design and application of interv...

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Energy reduction is one of the main challenges that countries around the world currently face, and there is potential to contribute to this by raising awareness towards sustainability in the workplace. We introduce IdleWars, a pervasive game played using smartphones and computers. In the game, workers' pro-environmental or wasteful behaviour is reflected in their game score, and displayed throu...

This study analyses whether and how environmental education determines the adoption of pro-environmental behaviours. We conducted an experiment on 222 business administration students to examine this relationship from two theoretical approaches: instrumental emancipatory perspectives. Structural equation modelling shows that in higher affects behaviour, but only indirect way, i.e., through know...

Increasingly initiatives are formed from the bottom-up, by for example community members themselves, to stimulate pro-environmental behaviour in their overarching group. But can such bottom-up motivate behaviour, and why? I propose that perceiving a initiative as regular group themselves (i.e. bottom up) enables social identity formation, motivating accordingly. Three field studies around diffe...