18 Encouraging Pro Environmental Behaviour

Question 1

Who are the publics

Answer 1

Stake holders we aim to serve or aim our legislature to

Question 2

What do environmental surveys suggest

Answer 2

environmental values are now pretty well dispersed, 54% believed that environmental protection should be given support

Question 3

What do defra do to work out general public opinion

Answer 3

tracker surveys

Question 4

how many people thought that they feel guilty about harming the environment

Answer 4

57 agreed, 13 strongly

Question 5

What did people feel about government action

Answer 5

they would back the government if they tried to be greener

Question 6

What did people say about paying for services

Answer 6

56%said that they would be happy to pay for environmental policies

Question 7

How many people said that environmental change worries them

Answer 7

64, stongly 30 very strongly

Question 8

WHat do these tracking surveys show

Answer 8

people said that they are happy to change their approach to help the environment

Question 9

WHat is the problem with states actions

Answer 9

clear mismatch between willingness and actuall behaviour

Question 10

Where else can we see that there is an attitude behaviour discrepency (1986)

Answer 10

alcohol, smoking

Question 11

Who created the theory of planned behaviour

Answer 11

Ajzen and madden 86

Question 12

How are our behavioural belifes infulenced

Answer 12

normas and belifs in the society

Question 13

What else changes beleif

Answer 13

how much we can actually influence the subject

Question 14

Where are 2 areas that policy intervention might make a difference

Answer 14

intention and behaviour

Question 15

What influcences disicions

Answer 15

information, people were not demonstrating environemtal views because people were not aware of the impactts

Question 16

What is it called where to public knows less than the policy makers

Answer 16

deficit model

Question 17

WHat would more information lead to

Answer 17

positive environmental change

Question 18

What effects effectiveness of the concern

Answer 18

individuality community spirit, responsibility not property owner lack of trust, practicality, time money facilities

Question 19

Who regarded the environment as a set of stepped rescourses

Answer 19

Maslow

Question 20

What are the 5 stages of the maslow pyramid of needs

Answer 20

self-actualization, Esteem, Love, Saftey, Physiological

Question 21

What is in the Physiological step

Answer 21

breathing food water sex sleep homeostasis excretion

Question 22

what is the safety step

Answer 22

security of body, embodyment, rescources, morality, family

Question 23

How do poorer countries view environmental policy

Answer 23

less important, need to satisfy the immediate needs of the country

Question 24

How does the state apply regulation

Answer 24

normally stick and carrot, effective in some arenas, may be costly and difficult to enforce, crude rules can be flexible

Question 25

What is the problem for a large scale level

Answer 25

does not effect or focus on the indivudual

Question 26

What is participatory appraisal

Answer 26

much more about antropologists spending time with communities

Question 27

WHat are DIPS

Answer 27

Deliberative processes

Question 28

What are the benefit of DIPS

Answer 28

Better to find out about individual interests or views, put in the driving seat of how environmental policy is designed

Question 29

What do dips allow

Answer 29

quiter voices heard, preferences can be transformed through discussion

Question 30

What is nudge

Answer 30

mix of psycology behavioural economics idea of bounded rationality, parts of our lives that we do not normally consider

Question 31

Give and example of nudge

Answer 31

reaching for a product without it crossing the mind

Question 32

WHat are the ethical implicaitons to nudge

Answer 32

certain limit to what we can do to people, is it right to controll them

Question 33

Why do some people not like nudge

Answer 33

used by the state to control out actions

Question 34

What are the 3 everyday practices that can shape out everyday home life

Answer 34

materials objects, imagies symbolic meanings, skills conpetencies and procedures, anybof these elements can effect the others

Question 35

How do intergenerational practices influence the enviroment

Answer 35

can be passed though the family, after generations new systems take over

Question 36

How many people disagreed with the fact that climate changes issues are too far in the future?

Answer 36

94 disagreed 30 strongly

Question 37

What is the value action gap?

Answer 37

Difference between stated actions and willingness to carry these out

Question 38

In the theory of planned behaviour model what are the beliefs

Answer 38

Behavioural, Notmative and control

Question 39

What is the stage before the behaviour in the ToPB model

Answer 39

Intention

Question 40

What does Blake say are the 3 barriers to environmental concern and action?

Answer 40

Individuality, responsibility, practically

Question 41

What is individuality in Blake’s model?

Answer 41

Personal characteristics, eg lack of interest

Question 42

What is responsibility in Blake’s model

Answer 42

Not property owner, lack of trust

Question 43

What is practicality in Blake’s model?

Answer 43

Lack of time, money m, facilities

Question 44

Who proposed the hierarchy of needs?

Answer 44

Maslow

Question 45

What is the physiological stage of hierarchy?

Answer 45

Breathing, food, water, sex, sleep, exretion

Question 46

What stage do people have to be according to Maslow to care for the environment?

Answer 46

Self Actualization, morality creativity, spontaneity, problem solving

Question 47

Looking at Maslow why might poorer countries react differently to environmental problems?

Answer 47

Less concern in pyramid to survival

Question 48

What is the traditional way of protecting the environment

Answer 48

Tax and regulation of the area, effective in some areas but may be difficult to enforce, crude rules can be inflexible

Question 49

What is the benefit of participation in regulation?

Answer 49

Quieter voices can be heard

Question 50

What is nudge?

Answer 50

Mix of phycology and behavioural economics

Question 51

What is a common method to get people to reduce environmental damage?

Answer 51

Compare them with neibouring people, suggesting they need to improve

Question 52

What is the general assumption with environmental behaviours

Answer 52

Concern is direct determinate of behaviours, wrong

Question 53

What effect do general attitudes have on desicion making?

Answer 53

Influence the perception and evaluation of specific beliefs, the subjective norm controls behaviour

Question 54

What does bamberg say about general attitude

Answer 54

Can not influence specific behaviours directly