Awareness, energy consumption and pro-environmental choices of Chinese households

This paper contributes to the large volume of literature investigating the link between awareness and pro-environmental behaviours by combining theory and empirical evidence. We first develop a simple model incorporating agents′ environmental awareness in their decision-making processes, which helps...

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Tác giả chính:	Li X.
Đồng tác giả:	Zhang D.
Định dạng:	Journal Article
Ngôn ngữ:	English
Thông tin xuất bản:	Elsevier Ltd 2021
Chủ đề:	Awareness Energy consumption Households Pro-environmental choices SDGs
Truy cập trực tuyến:	http://digital.lib.ueh.edu.vn/handle/UEH/61945 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.123734
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spelling	oai:localhost:UEH-619452021-08-20T14:48:16Z Awareness, energy consumption and pro-environmental choices of Chinese households Li X. Zhang D. Zhang T. Ji Q. Lucey B. Awareness Energy consumption Households Pro-environmental choices SDGs This paper contributes to the large volume of literature investigating the link between awareness and pro-environmental behaviours by combining theory and empirical evidence. We first develop a simple model incorporating agents′ environmental awareness in their decision-making processes, which helps us to understand the fundamental mechanism. Using household level data taken from the 2015 China General Social Survey (CGSS), we then empirically test a number of hypotheses derived from the theoretical framework. Our results confirm that the role of awareness is important in affecting household energy consumption and pro-environmental choices. Both accessibility and affordability of using energy improves social wellbeing in terms of health status. Awareness alone does not necessarily reduce energy consumption, but subjective factors can play important roles. Moreover, household′s subjective attitude can significantly influence decisions to purchase more energy efficient products and encourage pro-environmental choices. Policy implications can be drawn from these results that government should play a more active role in raising public awareness of sustainable development. 2021-08-20T14:48:16Z 2021-08-20T14:48:16Z 2021 Journal Article 0959-6526 http://digital.lib.ueh.edu.vn/handle/UEH/61945 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.123734 en Journal of Cleaner Production Vol. 279 none Portable Document Format (PDF) Elsevier Ltd
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description	This paper contributes to the large volume of literature investigating the link between awareness and pro-environmental behaviours by combining theory and empirical evidence. We first develop a simple model incorporating agents′ environmental awareness in their decision-making processes, which helps us to understand the fundamental mechanism. Using household level data taken from the 2015 China General Social Survey (CGSS), we then empirically test a number of hypotheses derived from the theoretical framework. Our results confirm that the role of awareness is important in affecting household energy consumption and pro-environmental choices. Both accessibility and affordability of using energy improves social wellbeing in terms of health status. Awareness alone does not necessarily reduce energy consumption, but subjective factors can play important roles. Moreover, household′s subjective attitude can significantly influence decisions to purchase more energy efficient products and encourage pro-environmental choices. Policy implications can be drawn from these results that government should play a more active role in raising public awareness of sustainable development.
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title	Awareness, energy consumption and pro-environmental choices of Chinese households
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