The Determinants of Individuals' Attitudes Towards Preventing Environmental Damage

By Benno Torgler, M. García-valiñas. 2007

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This paper investigates empirically the determinants of individuals' attitudes towards preventing environmental damage in Spain using data from the World Values Survey and European Values Survey for the periods 1990, 1995 and 1999/2000. Compared to many previous studies, we present a richer set of independent variables and found that strongly neglected variables such as political interest and social capital have a strong impact on individuals' preferences to prevent environmental damage. An interesting aspect in our study is the ability to investigate environmental preferences over time. The results show strong differences over time. Finally, using disaggregated data for Spanish regions, we also find significant regional differences.

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

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Residential Energy-Efficient Technology Adoption, Energy Conservation, Knowledge, and Attitudes: An Analysis of European Countries (2012, background): “However, as Torgler and Garçia-Valiñas (2007) also point out, age effects need to be decomposed into a life cycle effect which stems from being in a particular stage of life, and into a cohort effect which results from belonging to a particular generation with generation-specific experiences,…”
The Effects of Affluence, Economic Development, and Environmental Degradation on Environmental Concern: A Multilevel Analysis (2011, background): “Previous studies focus on individual-level factors within separate nations that predict environmental concern (e.g., Chatterjee, 2008; Guha & Martinez-Allier, 1997; Torgler & Garcia-Valinas, 2006) or engage in cross-national comparisons (e.g., Brechin, 1999; Duroy, 2008; Inglehart, 1995).”
Environmental Standards and Labor Productivity: Understanding the Mechanisms that Sustain Sustainability (2013, positive): “The findings show that women tend to have greater environmental concerns than men (Torgler & Garcia-Valinas, 2007).”
On the Determinants of Pro-Environmental Behavior: A Literature Review and Guide for the Empirical Economist (2019, background): “, 2004) and educated people are more aware and more concerned with social welfare (Johnson et al., 2004; Torgler and Garcia-Valiñas, 2007; Meyer, 2015).”
Making the implicit explicit: A look inside the implicit discount rate (2016, background): “Richer households also tend to be associated with stronger pro-environmental preferences (e.g. Franzen, 2003; Torgler and García-Valiñas, 2007) and adoption of EETs (e.”
The Impact of Social Norms on Entrepreneurial Action: Evidence from the Environmental Entrepreneurship Context (2010, neutral): “Using a unique dataset on solar energy firm foundings ⁎ Corresponding author.”
The influence of the family, the school, and the group on the environmental attitudes of European students (2017, background): “Articles such as Tilbury (1994), Chapman and Sharma (2001) and more recently, Torgler and García-Valiñas (2007), Coertjens et al. (2010), and Boeve-de Pauw (2011) make significant contributions to the study of the development of environmental attitudes among adolescents, on the basis of a range of…”
Individual characteristics and stated preferences for alternative energy sources and propulsion technologies in vehicles (2012, background): “According to this literature, the higher concern of women for the maintenance of environment is due to their traditional socialisation towards caregivers and encouragements to be cooperative and feel compassion (e.g. Torgler and García-Valiñas, 2007).”