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- Adman, Per, et al.
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171 forskare: ”Vi vuxna bör också klimatprotestera”
- 2019
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Ingår i: Dagens nyheter (DN debatt). - Stockholm. - 1101-2447.
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- DN DEBATT 26/9. Vuxna bör följa uppmaningen från ungdomarna i Fridays for future-rörelsen och protestera eftersom det politiska ledarskapet är otillräckligt. Omfattande och långvariga påtryckningar från hela samhället behövs för att få de politiskt ansvariga att utöva det ledarskap som klimatkrisen kräver, skriver 171 forskare i samhällsvetenskap och humaniora.
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- Nair, Gireesh, et al.
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Comparative evaluation of city dwellers' perspectives on household energy use based on housing tenure : survey results from Northern Sweden
- 2019. - 1
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Ingår i: Cold climate HVAC 2018. - Switzerland : Springer Publishing Company. - 9783030006617 - 9783030006624 ; , s. 791-801
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The successful implementation of energy efficiency measures in the residential sector will depend to a large extent on the attitudes and perceptions of the end-users since they are the final decision maker. The tenure of the housing could influence the building occupants' perspectives on energy issues. In this study we conducted a comparative evaluation of perspectives on energy use of three categories of households: those living in single family houses, tenants and owners' of apartment. The analysis is based on responses to a mail-in questionnaire by approximately 650 residents in Umeå, Sweden. Majority of the respondents believed that their annual household energy use is less. Residents in single-family houses, as compared to the other two types of tenure of the housing, were more likely to believe their heat energy use as high and likely to take actions to reduce the energy use. Financial incentives such as subsidy or lower interest rate were preferred by most of single-family homeowners (45%) to motivate them to take actions to reduce energy use. While personalized information to reduce energy use and lower interest rate and reduced rent are preferred by more residents in the other two categories. The implications for promoting energy efficient measures based on housing tenure is discussed.
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- Eriksson, Louise, et al.
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Acceptability of single and combined transport policy measures : the importance of environmental and policy specific beliefs
- 2008
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Ingår i: Transportation Research Part A. - : Elsevier. - 0965-8564 .- 1879-2375. ; 42:8, s. 1117-1128
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this study, the acceptability of different transport policy measures was examined. Three measures were assessed individually and as packages combining one push measure (a raised tax on fossil fuel) and one pull measure (in Package 1 improved public transport and in Package 2 a subsidy of renewable fuel). To analyze factors important for the acceptability, we proposed a model where the value-belief-norm theory combined with policy specific beliefs (perceived fairness and perceived effectiveness) predicted acceptability. Furthermore, we examined whether problem awareness or personal norm was more important for acceptability. In a questionnaire study conducted in Sweden, a sample of car users (N = 616) assessed the transport policy measures. Results showed that while the pull measures were perceived to be effective, fair, and acceptable, the push measure and the packages were perceived to be rather ineffective, unfair, and unacceptable. The proposed model was supported for the measures and problem awareness was found to have a direct effect on acceptability for the pull measures while personal norm was found to have a direct effect on acceptability for the push measure and the two policy packages. In addition, perceived fairness and effectiveness were found to be particularly important for acceptability.
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- Jansson, Johan, Professor, 1973-, et al.
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Consumer Adoption of Alternative Fuel Vehicles: A Cluster Analytic Approach on Proenvironmental Technology Choices and Curtailment Behaviors
- 2015
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Ingår i: Marketing in Transition: Scarcity, Globalism, & Sustainability. - Cham : Springer Nature. - 9783319186863 - 9783319369563 - 9783319186870 ; , s. 3-3
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Although the private passenger car brings consumers freedom of mobility and expression, the downsides to the car focused society are also becoming obvious. Perhaps air pollution and the squandering of dwindling fossil oil resources are the most commonly discussed issues. In order to reduce emissions and to consume less oil, the traditional approach has been to influence consumers to curtail their car use and influence them to switch to other modes of transportation. Considering the increasing private car use in most countries this approach has had limited effect. Another approach winning ground currently is the path of technological development, where new types of vehicles have been developed that are marketed as having a lesser environmental impact than the conventional fossil oil fuelled cars. From a consumer perspective these new alternative fuel vehicles (AFVs), running on fuels such as ethanol, natural/biogas and to some extent on electricity, can be viewed as proenvironmental innovations. The problem is that much research within environmental psychology has focused primarily on curtailment behaviors rather than on understanding consumer adoption of purportedly proenvironmental innovations. For example, Stern and colleagues have developed the value-belief-norm (VBN) theory postulating that activated personal norms influence consumers’ proenvironmental behaviors. Although well proven, the VBN-theory has mainly focused on curtailment behaviors. From a consumer behavior point of view, less is known about consumer adoption of proenvironmental innovations.
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- Jansson, Johan, 1973-, et al.
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Vad talar för tåg på semesterresan?
- 2019
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Rapport (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- Fritidsresor svarar för drygt hälften av personresandet i Sverige mätt i kilometer. Huvuddelen av dessa resor (59 %) görs med bil, medan de kollektiva färdmedlen svarar för 10 %. Fritidsresorna är också längre än övriga resor, ca 51 km i genomsnitt. En överflyttning av i alla fall en del av fritidsresorna med bil till kollektiva färdmedel skulle ge märkbara effekter på koldioxidutsläpp, utsläpp av andra cancerogena ämnen samt trängsel i trafiken. I ett av Energimyndigheten finansierat projekt har vi undersökt hur olika åtgärder uppfattas av människor med olika transportresurser (tillgång till olika färdmedel och ekonomi) och transportbehov, vilka skillnader som finns mellan individer, och hur åtgärder kan utformas och presenteras för att upplevas som mer attraktiva. En del i projektet har riktats mot människors val av färdmedel vid semesterresor, och vilken roll tåg kan ha i detta val. Denna rapport handlar om just semesterresor, och hur människor värderar olika färdmedelsattribut vid längre resor.
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- Nordlund, Annika, 1968-, et al.
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Barriers and facilitators for pro-environmental behavior
- 2013
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Ingår i: Environmental policy and household behaviour. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 9781134040063 - 9781844078974 ; , s. 99-126
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- To what extent we as individuals and members of a household live a sustainable life depends on the choices we make in our everyday life. This means that the products we consume, the way we travel, the kind of appliances we use in our household, and the way we handle our household waste are all examples of behavioural choices with serious implications for the environment. In Chapter 2, the important relationship between the individual and the state was discussed. This relationship is important since much of the everyday pro-environmental behaviours households are expected to execute are policy directed. If the households perceive that they are left without support, that is, left to fend for themselves when it comes to the dos and don’ts within the realm of environmental behavioural choices, this might affect the degree of willingness for change. In order to achieve a change in a sustainable direction there is therefore a need to understand the diversity of factors important for the daily behaviours of citizens. For example, why do some people buy only organic foods and others don’t and what are the reasons for choosing to go by bicycle instead of taking the car? The complexity of everyday life in households has been discussed in depth in Chapter 3. Knowledge of different important factors for daily behaviour is important for the understanding of under what conditions different pro-environmental behaviours are carried outor not by individuals in households. In addition this accentuates the importance of knowledge about barriers and facilitators for policy-makers having to deal with issues of effectiveness and legitimacy, in the design of, for the public, acceptable pro-environmental policies.
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- Orru, Kati, et al.
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Satisfaction with virtual nature tour : the roles of the need for emotional arousal and pro-ecological motivations
- 2019
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Ingår i: Journal of Ecotourism. - : Routledge. - 1472-4049 .- 1747-7638. ; 18:3, s. 221-242
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Interactive multimedia enables a mediated nature experience in ecologically vulnerable areas. The aim of this study is to clarify the social and individual motivational factors governing satisfaction with virtual nature tours. After visiting the Piusa Caves Nature Reserve in Estonia, and participating in its virtual tourism (VT), 299 tourists responded to a questionnaire regarding their natural and VT experiences. We use a general linear model to explore the effectiveness of predicting satisfaction with VT based on values, beliefs about treating nature, pro-ecological norms, and need for emotional arousal from virtual experiences. Compared to people with a high need for arousal, people with a low need are more easily satisfied with VT, regardless of its weak emotional triggers, e.g. lack of lively impressions, feeling of place change, and connection to real nature. Pro-ecological beliefs augment satisfaction with VT in people with a high need for arousal. Mediated nature experiences offer ways of engaging with nature more conveniently to hedonistic travellers and would likely be rejected by people who seek social interaction and physical challenges when travelling. As VT is better received among women, lower educated people, and 50–70-year-olds, these may be ideal target groups for promotion of mediated nature experiences.
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- Steg, Linda, et al.
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Theories to explain environmental behaviour
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Ingår i: Environmental psychology. - Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons. - 9781119241072 - 9781119241089 ; , s. 217-227
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter discusses the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) that focuses on the role of individual costs and benefits, and the protection motivation theory (PMT) that assumes people consider individual and collective costs and benefits of behaviour. The chapter explains two theories that focus on morality: the norm activation model (NAM) theory and the value-belief-norm (VBN) theory of environmentalism. The norm activation model proposes that pro-environmental actions follow from the activation of personal norms, reflecting feelings of moral obligation to perform or refrain from actions. The VBN theory proposes that problem awareness depends on values and ecological worldviews. Goal-framing theory proposes that three general goals govern or ‘frame’ the way people process information and act upon it: the hedonic goal ‘to feel better right now’, the gain goal ‘to guard and improve one’s resources’, and the normative goal ‘to act appropriately’.
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- Westin, Kerstin, 1954-, et al.
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Goal Framing as a Tool for Changing People’s Car Travel Behavior in Sweden
- 2020
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Ingår i: Sustainability. - : MDPI AG. - 2071-1050. ; 12:9
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper reports on a study of car drivers’ assessment of a sustainability policy involving increased car parking fees in Swedish city centers. The aim of the study was to investigate how framing of information in text and pictures influences acceptance of increasing car parking fees and how values, general beliefs and norms as well as measure-specific beliefs influence the acceptability of the measure. Drawing on Goal Framing Theory, the acceptance of a parking fee policy was tested using three different goal frames (hedonic, gain and normative); the frames were compared with each other and a control message. The study was based on a survey directed to residents (18 to 75 years of age) in 51 larger municipalities in Sweden. The survey had an experimental design. Respondents were presented with a scenario of an increase in parking fees to promote environmental sustainability. The scenario was presented in three ways (manipulations), highlighting hedonic (e.g., emotional), gain, and normative aspects, respectively, in text and pictures. The results showed that the three message frames had different effects and were overall more effective than the control message in engendering the desired reduction in private car use and, thus, the intended environmental impact. Further, the degree of acceptability of the increased parking fee influenced the expected behavioral change in the groups receiving a goal framed message in relation to the parking fee measure. Implications from a sustainability perspective concern the importance of how environmental policies are framed when communicated to the public in order to increase acceptance and support.
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