A Causal Analysis of Human Values and Behaviors in Waste Management and Environmental Policies

Soonae Park

International Review of Public Administration, 2000, vol. 5, issue 1, 93-106

Abstract: This study aims to investigate the linkages between human values and proenvironmental behaviors especially related to waste management. A theoretical model which links this array of factors is presented and estimated through a structural equation modeling. Several factors are examined including people’s environmental attitudes, preferences for waste management and environmental policies, their participation in precycling and recycling behaviors and environmentally related political actions. Survey data were gathered from Washtenaw County, Michigan. Of the 1,022 delivered surveys, 488 completed surveys were returned, providing an overall response rate of 48 percent. Among the key findings, biospheric value shows a strong relationship with proenvironmental attitudes, further demonstrating direct linkages to the behavior dimensions except for recycling. Overall, willingness to vote for the ecologically oriented party is explained the most, and recycling behavior the least by respondents’ attitudes and socio-economic status.

Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1080/12294659.2000.10804946

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