期刊
SUSTAINABILITY
卷 7, 期 10, 页码 14133-14152出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/su71014133
关键词
environmental behavior; pro-environmental behavior; environmental management
资金
- Chile's Ministry of the Environment
- Chile's Conicyt program through the National Fund for Scientific and Technological Research (Fondecyt) [1130864]
- National Research Center for Integrated Natural Disaster Management [CONICYT/FONDAP/15110017]
Environmental protection and restoration are some of the major challenges faced by our society. To address this problem, it is fundamental to understand pro-environmental behaviors in the population, as well as the factors that determine them. There are, however, very few studies conducted in Latin America that are focused in understanding the environmental behavior of its citizens. The main goal of this research was to study the environmental behaviors of a Chilean community and identify the factors that determine them. To that end, a diverse set of environmental behaviors (power and water conservation, environmentally-aware consumer behavior, biodiversity protection, rational automobile use and ecological waste management) and sociodemographic and attitudinal factorsbased on the VBN modelwere evaluated. Survey data was obtained from a statistically representative sample (N = 1537) in Santiago, Chile. Our results suggest that several participants displayed tendencies that favor more responsible environmental behaviors, with high environmental concern, and demonstrating their ample awareness of the consequences of failing to protect the environment. Nevertheless, the highest average scores of environmental behavior were related to low cost behaviors and those that imposed the fewest behavioral restrictions. In global terms, we concluded that the youngest subjects in the lowest socioeconomic group obtained the lowest scores across the pro-environmental behavior spectrum.
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