The influence of place attachment, and moral and normative concerns on the conservation of native vegetation: a test of two behavioural models

By Christopher M. Raymond, Gregory Brown, G. Robinson. 2011

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This study examines the influence of place attachment, values, beliefs and personal norms about environmental action on the conservation of native vegetation in two primary production settings in South Australia. We use regression and multiple mediation analyses to test a base model of pro-environmental behaviour which includes variables from value-belief-norm (VBN) theory and then compare it to an expanded model which includes the same variables and five dimensions of place attachment. The expanded model including place attachment explained up to twice the amount of variance in native vegetation planting than the base model when controlling for all variables preceding behaviour, but the overall explanatory power was low (<22%). Place attachment had a stronger influence on the antecedents of behaviour compared with the behaviour itself, particularly nature bonding which was a significant moderate predictor of both personal norms and awareness of consequences in the two study regions. We assert that place attachment has statistically significant direct and indirect effects on variables included in VBN theory. Future studies may reveal stronger effects in settings where there are fewer resource and monetary costs associated with pro-environmental behaviour.

Subfields: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Sociology and Political Science

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Connectedness as a Core Conservation Concern: An Interdisciplinary Review of Theory and a Call for Practice (2014, background): “Such progress has been made with research on, for example, significant life experiences [152, 155–157], restorative qualities of nature [85, 87, 141, 158] environmental identity and place attachment [38, 105, 144, 159– 161], and wilderness journeys [87, 117, 119, 162–164].”
Individuals’ intentions to engage in last chance tourism: applying the value-belief-norm model (2020, background): “analysis of pro-environmental behavior among tourists (Landon et al., 2016; Landon et al., 2018; Raymond et al., 2011; Thogersen, 1996; van Riper & Kyle, 2014).”
Testing the dimensionality of place attachment and its relationships with place satisfaction and pro-environmental behaviours: A structural equation modelling approach (2013, background): “…attachment and pro-environmental behaviours, a number of studies have demonstrated significant associations between these two constructs in different contexts and situations (e.g., Devine-Wright & Howes, 2010; Gosling & Williams, 2010; Halpenny, 2010; Hernández et al., 2010; Raymond et al., 2011).”
The extended Value-Belief-Norm theory predicts committed action for nature and biodiversity in Europe (2020, background): “Regarding the specificity of biospheric values, they cover those values that focus on the environment and the biosphere (Raymond et al., 2011).”
Transcendental values and the valuation and management of ecosystem services (2016, methodology): “Each item loaded on the theorised dimensions of environmental concern (i.e., biospheric, altruistic or egoistic concerns) with high reliabilities (see Raymond et al. 2011).”
Personal and social factors that influence pro-environmental concern and behaviour: a review. (2014, background): “For example, adding place attachment to the standard value-belief-norm model doubled the predictability of Australian landowner’s conservation of native plants (Raymond et al., 2011).”
Environmental psychology matters. (2014, background): “In one study, adding place attachment to the standard values-beliefs-norms (VBN) model doubled the predictability of whether people would conserve native plants (Raymond et al. 2011).”
Employee workplace spirituality and pro-environmental behavior in the hotel industry (2018, background): “Raymond, Brown, and Robinson (2011) stated that the environmental concerns of those who consider themselves part of nature and connected with others emanate from a desire to avoid the consequences of complacency.”
Modeling the psychological antecedents to tourists’ pro-sustainable behaviors: an application of the value-belief-norm model (2018, methodology): “Awareness of Consequencewas operationalizedwith five items adapted from van Riper and Kyle (2014) and Raymond et al. (2011).”