THE MECHANISMS OF PUBLIC POLICY TO MITIGATE THE NEGATIVE IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT

2021 ◽  
pp. 145-155
Author(s):  
Svetlana Kodaneva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
National Context ◽  
Industrial Emissions ◽  
Environmentally Responsible Behavior ◽  
Responsible Behavior ◽  
Environmentally Responsible ◽  
State Programs

As the global economy grows, so do greenhouse gas emissions, in particular carbon dioxide, which is considered one of the main causes of climate change. The growing environmental problems determine the urgency of taking operational measures to reduce the negative impact of human activities on the environment. State policy should be aimed at both reducing the level of industrial emissions of pollutants and creating environmentally responsible behavior of residents. The article discusses various mechanisms for implementing relevant state programs, depending on the national context.

scholarly journals Principles of Green Design: Analyzing User Activities and Product Feedback

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Esposito ◽  
Julie Linsey
Keyword(s):  
Energy Savings ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Environmental Attitude ◽  
Environmentally Responsible Behavior ◽  
Product Usage ◽  
Responsible Behavior ◽  
Environmentally Responsible ◽  
Future Work ◽  
User Activities

This study investigated the design principles applicable to environmentally friendly product design. An experimental approach was taken to examine principles that aid designers in producing an eco-friendly product that consumers will enjoy and use. Another important aspect to this study was to determine whether a user’s positive environmental attitude or a willingness to change for the environment relates to environmentally responsible behavior. Two hypotheses were developed for successful eco-friendly products and then appropriate products were purchased and modified to test these hypotheses. The activity hypothesis claims that if a product adds user activities, is less likely to be used. The feedback hypothesis states that a product that gives clear feedback is more likely to be used than a product that does not. Student participants took home products to use for one week, recorded each time they used the products, and then completed surveys afterword. For the activity hypothesis, we supposed that the product not adding user activities would be used more than the product adding activities. However, the experimental results have shown that this may not always be the case. For the feedback hypothesis, we speculated that visual reminder feedback and energy savings feedback both increase product usage. An increase in eco-friendly product usage would lead to a lessened negative impact that products are having on our environment. Experimental results indicate that there were errors in the experimental design, but these problems also aid in future work for this research.

scholarly journals Tools for building environmental culture in Russian companies

2019 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 02020
Author(s):  
Olga Rasskazova ◽  
Igor Alexandrov ◽  
Andrey Burmistrov ◽  
Maria Siniavina
Keyword(s):  
Negative Impact ◽  
Personal Responsibility ◽  
Environmentally Responsible Behavior ◽  
Responsible Behavior ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Environmentally Responsible ◽  
Environmental Goals ◽  
Economic Thinking ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Environmental Interests

Environmentally responsible behavior of modern companies allows them to reduce the negative impact on the environment, as well as contributes to its competitiveness, sustainable development, formation of internal and external positive image. In this paper, we looked into the key concepts of environmental management of personnel, in particular, environmental thinking, environmental behavior, environmental culture, and reflected on interconnection of these concepts. We have offered tools for developing an environmental culture among the staff of a Russian company, which will enable them to achieve their environmental goals, as well as to use economic thinking and behavior in the daily life of their employees. The environmental culture allows people to form a respectful attitude to-wards nature as a prerequisite for their survival, awareness of the priority of global environmental interests and, at the same time, personal responsibility of each individual.

Shame, Moral Motivation, and Climate Change

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 230-253
Author(s):  
Russell C. Powell
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Moral Motivation ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Environmentally Responsible Behavior ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Responsible Behavior ◽  
Environmentally Responsible ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Climate Crisis ◽  
Contemporary Climate

AbstractAn emotion like shame is endowed with special motivational force. Drawing on Ralph Waldo Emerson’s concept of shame, I develop an account of moral motivation that lends new perspective to the contemporary climate crisis. Whereas religious ethicists often engage the problem of climate change by re-imagining the metaphors, symbols, and values of problematic cosmologies, I focus on some specific moral tactics generated by religious communities who use their traditions to confront climate destruction. In particular, Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries, a Christian non-profit organization that seeks to infuse a renewed commitment in church parishes to bioregions and watersheds, effectively employs shame in the context of its Christian practice and leadership. My analysis of Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries demonstrates both the efficacy of shame to motivate environmentally responsible behavior as well as the advantage to religious ethics of considering contextual practices over abstract cosmologies.

scholarly journals How Does Environmental Interpretation Affect Psychological Well-Being? A Study Conducted in the Context of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 8522
Author(s):  
Hoang Viet Nguyen ◽  
Wilson Dang ◽  
Hoang Nguyen ◽  
Thi Nguyen Hong Nguyen ◽  
Thi My Nguyet Nguyen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Contract ◽  
Environmental Policies ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Environmentally Responsible Behavior ◽  
Environmental Interpretation ◽  
Psychological Contract Violation ◽  
Responsible Behavior ◽  
Environmentally Responsible

The COVID-19 crisis has challenged and generated severe impact on the global society, economy, and environment. Under this pandemic context, governments and organizations around the world have issued and strengthened environmental policies and regulations to protect the environment and human health. However, the extant knowledge about how people’s interpretation of environmental policies and regulations influence their psychological well-being in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic is still limited. This study, therefore, investigates the impact of environmental interpretation on psychological well-being with the mediating role of environmentally responsible behavior and the moderating role of psychological contract violation. Using the data from a large sample of 960 residents in China, results of structural equation modeling show a positive relationship between environmental interpretation and psychological well-being, and this relationship is mediated by environmentally responsible behavior. Notably, psychological contract violation has a moderating effect on the indirect effect of environmental interpretation on psychological well-being via environmentally responsible behavior. These findings have several important implications for policymakers in environmental sustainability and pandemic planning.

COPING STYLE AND THREE PSYCHOLOGICAL MEASURES ASSOCIATED WITH ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOR

2002 ◽  
Vol 30 (7) ◽  
pp. 661-669 ◽  
Author(s):  
Osamu Iwata
Keyword(s):  
Coping Style ◽  
Factor Loading ◽  
Willingness To Accept ◽  
Environmentally Responsible Behavior ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Psychological Measures ◽  
Responsible Behavior ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Japanese Male ◽  
Environmentally Responsible

Questionnaires containing five multi-item 5-point scales were administered to 153 Japanese male and female undergraduates. Data of each of the scales were factor analyzed and, as a rule, items with a factor loading of .40 or over were selected. The scale for coping style produced three factors: avoidance, self-deceptive optimism and problem solving. Each of the other four scales produced one factor. Using the total score for each scale or factor, multiple regression analysis was applied to environmentally responsible behavior with six predictors entered simultaneously. Self-deceptive optimism and willingness to accept sacrifices for global environmental protection proved to be significant predictors of environmentally responsible behavior, but the four other predictors did not.

Shopping for Clothes and Sensitivity to the Suffering of Others: The Role of Compassion and Values in Sustainable Fashion Consumption

2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (10) ◽  
pp. 1119-1144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonja Maria Geiger ◽  
Johannes Keller
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Research ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Proenvironmental Behavior ◽  
Environmentally Responsible Behavior ◽  
Negative Relation ◽  
Responsible Behavior ◽  
Environmentally Responsible ◽  
Sustainable Fashion ◽  
Purchase Criteria

The positive relation of biospheric and altruistic values as well as the negative relation of egoistic and hedonic values to environmentally responsible behavior, are established findings in environmental psychological research. Recent findings revealed that compassion, the sensitivity to the suffering of other individuals, is also relevant for proenvironmental intentions. We tested the role of compassion in combination with universal altruistic, biospheric, egoistic, and hedonic values concerning an environmentally responsible behavior with an explicit social and hedonic component: sustainable fashion consumption. In a large survey study ( n = 981), we found that compassion was positively linked to sustainable purchase criteria. The manipulation of compassion in an online study ( n = 197) resulted in a small, positive effect on the willingness to pay extra for fair trade clothes. Moreover, we found that hedonic values showed a consistent negative relation to sustainable fashion consumption in both studies, thus corroborating former research on the critical relevance of hedonic values in the context of proenvironmental behavior.

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