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Households' willingness to adopt greywater treatment technologies in a developing country - Exploring a modified theory of planned behaviour (TPB) model including personal norm

Journal

JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
Volume 254, Issue -, Pages -

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ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.109807

Keywords

Households' willingness; Greywater; Personal norms; Theory of planned behaviour

Funding

  1. Netherlands Government under the NUFFIC project NICHE [194-01]
  2. University of Maastricht Netherlands

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This study explored willingness of households to adopt a greywater treatment and reuse system using the theory of planned behaviour in its original form and an extended model including personal norms. The study was conducted among 478 household heads in the central region of Ghana. The results indicate the original theory of planned behaviour (TPB) model explained about 54% of the variance in respondents' intentions to adopt this system and the extended model which includes personal norms explained 59% of the intentions. The extended model turned out to be the better model to predict willingness to adopt this household greywater and treatment system. The findings of this study shed more light on the role of personal norms in households' willingness to adopt a greywater treatment and reuse system and may inform interventions aimed at promoting such systems.

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