Tie to community as a proxy of competency to fill the gap between intended and actual pro-environmental behavior in urban settings

Yoshinori Nakagawa (), Koichiro Mori, Takeshi Nishimura and Kengo Hayashi
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Yoshinori Nakagawa: School of Economics and Management, Kochi University of Technology
Koichiro Mori: Shiga University.
Takeshi Nishimura: Sanyo Gakuen University
Kengo Hayashi: University of Tokyo

No SDES-2019-1, Working Papers from Kochi University of Technology, School of Economics and Management

Abstract: It is essential to encourage worldwide pro-environmental behaviors among an increasingly urban population. Understanding the gap between intended and actual pro-environmental behavior is crucial for developing effective intervention measures. The present study aimed to identify a variable that could serve as a proxy for urban individuals’ overall competence to fill this gap. Data was collected from 366 residents living in highly urbanized Japanese municipalities with a population density of 7088/km2 or higher. It found that community ties, as measured by Theodori’s (2004) community attachment scale, moderated the intention-behavior gap. This was also true when only resource-saving behavior, conventionally regarded as being in the private sphere, was considered when scoring individuals’ pro-environmental behavior, which suggests that this behavior is much more social than previously realized. The practical implications of these findings are also discussed.

Keywords: pro-environmental behavior; intention-behavior gap; place attachment; community attachment; urban living (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37 pages
Date: 2019-02, Revised 2019-02
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Published in SDE Series, February 2019, pages 1-37

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