Mind the Gap: Why do people act environmentally and what are the barriers to pro-environmental behavior?

By A. Kollmuss, J. Agyeman. 2002

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Subfields: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Marketing, Sociology and Political Science

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The Green Purchase Behavior of Hong Kong Young Consumers: The Role of Peer Influence, Local Environmental Involvement, and Concrete Environmental Knowledge (2010, background): “Specifically, studies in the environmental research field focused on examining how individuals’ environmentrelated perception, cognition, and emotion are associated with environmental behavior (Kollmuss and Agyeman 2002).”
Determinants of households’ investment in energy efficiency and renewables: evidence from the OECD survey on household environmental behaviour and attitudes (2015, background): “Indeed, several studies find that people with strong environmental preferences are more likely to invest in energy conservation technologies (Olli et al 2001, Kollmuss and Agyeman 2002, Di Maria et al 2010).”
Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Sustainable Seafood Made in Europe (2018, neutral): “…internal processes, such as knowledge, involvement, perceptions, preferences, intentions, motivations, attitudes, values, and emotions, are decisive for consumer behavior (Kollmuss & Agyeman, 2002; Kroeber-Riel, Weinberg, & Gröppel-Klein, 2009; Solomon, Bamossy, Askegaard, & Hogg, 2010).”
The relationship between motivations of architectural designers and environmentally sustainable construction design (2016, positive): “Pro-environmental behaviour is defined as behaviour which is intended to minimise harm to the natural world (Kollmuss and Agyeman 2002).”
Fostering changes in attitude, knowledge and behavior: demographic variation in environmental education effects (2018, background): “Since empirical results concerning correlations between attitudes and behavior remain inconsistent (Kollmuss and Agyeman 2002) environmental attitudes alone seem to play an inconsequential role as predictor for pro-environmental behavior.”
Mind in the Gap: Summary of research exploring 'inner' influences on pro-sustainability learning and behaviour (2002, background): “As suggested by Grob (1991, quoted by Kollmuss & Agyeman, 2002), many discussants who clearly had strong emotional reactions became engaged in pro-environmental behaviour in new or enhanced ways.”
Evaluating the effects of environmental education programming on connectedness to nature (2011, background): “Work by Kollmuss and Agyeman ( 2002 ) suggests factors such as gender and education level influence individuals' level of environmental concern.”
The sharing economy: Why people participate in collaborative consumption (2016, background): “In particular, the possible discrepancy between motivations and their effect on attitudes and behavior warrants an interesting context for research (Bray et al., 2011; Kollmuss & Agyeman, 2002).”
Plants have a chance: outdoor educational programmes alter students' knowledge and attitudes towards plants (2011, background): “Some research revealed that environmental knowledge is an essential precursor of attitude formation (Kaiser, Wolfing, and Fuhrer 1999 ), but knowledge and attitude usually have a weak link to behaviour change (Kollmuss and Agyeman 2002 ; Saunders, Brook, and Myers 2006 ).”
Persuasive communication and proenvironmental behaviours: How message tailoring and message framing can improve the integration of behaviours through self-determined motivation. (2008, background): “Yet, there is a gap between the extent to which people are aware of the environmental conditions and the proenvironmental behaviours (PEB) they display (Kollmuss & Agyeman, 2002; Wood, Tam, & Guerrero-Witt, 2005).”