What influences an individual’s pro-environmental behavior? A literature review

By Ding Li, Luman Zhao, Shuang Ma, Shuai Shao, Lixiao Zhang. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 2019

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Abstract This review paper discusses determinants of pro-environmental behavior on Resources Conservation and Recycling from 1987 to 2017. The main factors which influence pro-environmental behavior include both external and internal factors—specifically, demographic variables and psychological factors. The main purpose of this work is to review the literature (i.e., published studies) regarding the impact, relations, and mutual effects on pro-environmental behavior of each group of factors. Identifying the determinants of pro-environmental behavior is helpful when formulating the most appropriate and effective policies for improving the public’s behavior toward protecting the natural environment.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Marketing

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Citations in the corpus

• The green care code: How nature connectedness and simple activities help explain pro‐nature conservation behaviours (2020, background): “For example, socio-demographics such as age, income, and marital status have consistently been associated with one's propensity to engage in environmentally responsible behaviour (see reviews by Gifford & Nilsson, 2014; Li et al., 2019).”
• Applying the Theory of Planned Behavior to Examine Pro-Environmental Behavior: The Moderating Effect of COVID-19 Beliefs (2020, background): “[22] classified the determinants of pro-environmental behaviors into two main categories: external variables, such as social norms, cost, and convenience; and individual variables,”