Environmental Participation and Environmental Motivation

Benno Torgler (), María A.García-Valiñas and Alison Macintyre ()

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Abstract: We explore whether environmental motivation affects environmental behavior by focusing on volunteering. The paper first introduces a theoretical model of volunteering in environmental organizations. In a next step, it tests the hypothesis working with a large micro data set covering 32 countries from both Western and Eastern Europe using several different proxies to measure environmental motivation. Our results indicate that environmental motivation has a strong impact on individuals’ voluntary engagement in environmental organizations. A higher level of environmental motivation due to higher environmental moral standards may lead to a stronger voluntary involvement in environmental organizations.

Keywords: environmental participation; environmental motivation; environmental morale; pro-environmental attitudes; social capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D11 H41 H26 H73 D64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-env and nep-soc
Date: Written 2008-09

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