期刊
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS
卷 42, 期 -, 页码 136-147出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2016.11.005
关键词
Pro-environmental behaviour; Voluntary air travel; Discretionary air travel; Climate change concerns; Attitude-behaviour consistency; Pro-environmental spill-over
资金
- National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit (NIHR HPRU) in Environmental Change and Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- Public Health England (PHE)
- University of Exeter
- University College London
- Met Office
- Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (BESS)
- UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) as part of the UK's Living with Environmental Change (LWEC) programme
- National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) [P30 ES019776]
- Natural Environment Research Council [1247474] Funding Source: researchfish
The rise in greenhouse gas emissions from air travel could be reduced by individuals voluntarily abstaining from, or reducing, flights for leisure and recreational purposes. In theory, we might expect that people with pro-environmental value orientations and concerns about the risks of climate change, and those who engage in more pro-environmental household behaviours, would also be more likely to abstain from such voluntary air travel, or at least to fly less far. Analysis of two large datasets from the United Kingdom, weighted to be representative of the whole population, tested these associations. Using zero-inflated Poisson regression models, we found that, after accounting for potential confounders, there was no association between individuals' environmental attitudes, concern over climate change, or their routine pro-environmental household behaviours, and either their propensity to take non-work related flights, or the distances flown by those who do so. These findings contrasted with those for pro environmental household behaviours, where associations with environmental attitudes and concern were observed. Our results offer little encouragement for policies aiming to reduce discretionary air travel through pro-environmental advocacy, or through 'spill-over' from interventions to improve environmental impacts of household routines. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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