Behavioural Responses to Climate Change: Asymmetry of Intentions and Impacts

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Whitmarsh, L. (2009, March). Behavioural responses to climate change: Asymmetry of intentions and impacts. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 29(1), 13-23.
In seeking to determine whether climate change mitigation strategies are effective, researchers and policy-makers typically use energy consumption as an indicator. UK government d…

Ambivalence and Conservation Behaviour: An Exploratory Study on the Recycling of Metal Cans

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Castro, P., Garrido, M., Reis, E., & Menezes, J. (2009, March). Ambivalence and conservation behaviour: An exploratory study on the recycling of metal cans. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 29(1), 24-33.
As resource conservation is an imperative for sustainable development, it is crucial to achieve a deeper understanding of the factors involved in people's decisions to recycle. Th…

Desire to Change one's Multimodality and its Relationship to the Use of Different Transport Means

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Diana, M., & Mokhtarian, P. (2009, March). Desire to change one's multimodality and its relationship to the use of different transport means. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 12(2), 107-119.
Using data collected from French employees of a transportation institute and residents of the US San Francisco Bay Area, we operationalize a segmentation of mobility patterns base…

Why We Don't "Walk the Talk": Understanding the Environmental Values/Behaviour Gap in Canada

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Huddart, E; Beckley, T M.; McFarlane, B L.; Nadeau, S. (2009). Why We Don't "Walk the Talk": Understanding the Environmental Values/Behaviour Gap in Canada. Human Ecology Review, 16(2) 151-160.
Worldwide, studies have shown increases in environmental values and beliefs over the past four decades. However, in few cases have researchers observed parallel increases in envir…

FROM RED TO GREEN? Environmental Attitudes and Behavior in Urban China

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Liu JCE & Leiserowitz AA. (2009). FROM RED TO GREEN? Environmental Attitudes and Behavior in Urban China. Environment, 51(4), 32-45.
China's economy has grown to become the third largest-and counting-in the world. However, rapid development has exacted a toll: China's cities and rivers are among the dirtiest on…

Extending Planned Environmentalism: Anticipated Guilt and Embarrassment Across Cultures

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Kaiser, F., Schultz, P., Berenguer, J., Corral-Verdugo, V., & Tankha, G. (2008). Extending planned environmentalism: Anticipated guilt and embarrassment across cultures. European Psychologist, 13(4), 288-297.
This paper cross-culturally tests an extended version of the planned behavior theory. Using cross-sectional surveys of 801 university students from four different cultures (high v…

Acculturation and Ecological Worldview among Latino Americans

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Schultz, P., Unipan, J., & Gamba, R. (2000, December 1). Acculturation and Ecological Worldview among Latino Americans. Journal of Environmental Education, 31(2), 22-27.
Examines environmental attitudes among foreign-born Latin Americans and differences in these attitudes associated with acculturation.

Market segmentation analysis using attitudes toward transportation exploring the differences between men and women

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Beirão, G., Cabral, J.S. (2008). Market segmentation analysis using attitudes toward transportation exploring the differences between men and women. Transportation Research Record, (2067), pp. 56-64.
Traveler attitudes and preferences as well as demographic variables are important components of travel behavior. By using travel attitudes, factor and cluster analyses were conduc…

What Affects Use of Pretrip Public Transport Information?: Empirical Results of a Qualitative Study

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Farag, S., Lyons, G. (2008). What affects use of pretrip public transport information?: Empirical results of a qualitative study. Transportation Research Record, (2069), pp. 85-92.
With the rise of the Internet and mobile phone, various forms of public transport information services have emerged that enable people to make better informed travel choices. Neve…

Students' Perceptions of Difficulties in Cycling to School in Urban and Suburban Taiwan

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Chang, H.-W., Chang, H.-L. (2008). Students' perceptions of difficulties in cycling to school in urban and suburban Taiwan. Transportation Research Record, (2060), pp. 123-130.
Previous research has identified the importance of cycling training programs and examined the relationship between cycling attitudes and the behavior of cyclists; another importan…

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