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Surveying Climate-Relevant Behavior : Measurements, Obstacles, and Implications.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hadler, Markus.
Other Authors: Klösch, Beate., Schwarzinger, Stephan., Schweighart, Markus., Wardana, Rebecca., Bird, David Neil.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2021.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • 1.1 Sociology and Climate Research
  • 1.2 Climate-Relevant Behavior and Impact
  • 1.3 Measuring Climate-Relevant Behavior in Surveys
  • 1.4 Research Team and Content of This Book
  • References
  • Chapter 2: Measuring Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors
  • 2.1 Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors
  • 2.2 Factors Influencing Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors
  • Environmental Attitudes
  • General Environmental Behavior
  • Emission-Related Environmental Behavior
  • 2.3 Measuring Environmental Attitudes
  • 2.4 Measuring Environmental Behavior
  • 2.5 Survey Programs Considering Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors
  • 2.6 Conclusions and Outlook
  • References
  • Chapter 3: Life-Areas and How to Estimate Greenhouse Gas Emission Footprints
  • 3.1 What Type of Emissions to Use, Which Sectors Should Be the Focus
  • 3.2 A Generalized Method for Estimating Emissions from a Service
  • Mobility
  • Housing
  • Nutrition
  • Consumption
  • 3.3 Melding Bottom-Up Footprints with Top-Down Average Per Person Emissions
  • 3.4 An Actual Example
  • 3.5 Conclusions and Outlook
  • References
  • Chapter 4: The Development of the Questionnaire
  • 4.1 Questions Included in Our Survey
  • 4.2 Samples
  • 4.3 Validation of Our Questions
  • Housing
  • Mobility
  • Diet
  • Consumption
  • 4.4 Conclusions and Outlook
  • References
  • Chapter 5: Estimating and Explaining the Greenhouse Gas Emissions
  • 5.1 Greenhouse Gas Emissions: The Case of Austria
  • 5.2 Overview of the Sample's GHG Emissions
  • Housing-Buildings, Heating, Water, Electrical, and Household Appliances
  • Mobility-Car Usage and Flight Behavior
  • Diet-Meat and Dairy Products
  • Consumption-Goods, Leisure Activities, and Information
  • 5.3 Estimating and Explaining an Individual's Total Emission.
  • Factors that Shape the Total Emissions
  • Dimensions of Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors
  • Factors that Shape the Total Emissions
  • 5.4 Conclusions and Outlook
  • References
  • Chapter 6: The Multidimensionality of Consumption: Energy Lifestyles
  • 6.1 Identifying Lifestyles Based on Annual Energy Demands
  • 6.2 Data and Methods
  • 6.3 Multidimensional Identification of Energy Lifestyles
  • 6.4 Energy Lifestyle Groups and their Role in the Energy Transition
  • Energy Lifestyle 1: "Travelers"
  • Energy Lifestyle 2: "Savers"
  • Energy Lifestyle 3: "Hobbyists"
  • Energy Lifestyle 4: "Homers"
  • Energy Lifestyle 5: "Consumers"
  • 6.5 Conclusions and Outlook
  • References
  • Chapter 7: Obstacles to Lower Environmental Impact in Low-Cost Behaviors
  • 7.1 Theoretical Approaches to Inconsistencies in Environmental Behavior
  • 7.2 Identifying Value-Intention-Action Gaps in Our Sample
  • 7.3 An In-Depth Look at Obstacles to Environmentally Friendly Behavior and Solutions
  • 7.4 Obstacles to Environmentally Friendly Behavior
  • 7.5 Individual Requirements to Facilitate Environmentally Friendly Behavior
  • 7.6 Social Strategies to Promote Environmentally Friendly Behavior
  • 7.7 Discussion of Obstacles to Environmentally Friendly Behavior and Potential Solutions
  • 7.8 Conclusions and Outlook
  • References
  • Chapter 8: International Outlook and Conclusions
  • 8.1 International Surveys and Explained Variance
  • 8.2 Lifestyles in an International View
  • 8.3 COVID-19 Crisis and Impact
  • 8.4 Overall Impact and Individual Actions
  • 8.5 Concluding Remarks
  • References
  • Questions Included in First Wave of the OeNB Study (Hadler et al. 2021)
  • Socio-demographic Variables
  • Environmental Attitudes and Personal Environmentally Relevant Behavior (PEBs)
  • Housing-Building Information
  • Housing-Heating and Heating Behavior
  • Housing-Power Consumption.
  • Housing-Water Treatment and Water Consumption
  • Mobility-Individual Motorized Means of Transport
  • Mobility-Flight Behavior
  • Diet-Consumption of Animal Products and Waste
  • Consumption-Purchasing Behavior Clothing, Electronic Devices, Leisure Time Behavior
  • Reference
  • Index.

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