scholarly journals Exploring Urban Sustainability Understanding and Behaviour: A Systematic Review towards a Conceptual Framework

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1139
Author(s):  
Hasan Fehmi Topal ◽  
Dexter V. L. Hunt ◽  
Christopher D. F. Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Urban Sustainability ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Psychological Determinants ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Activation Theory ◽  
Norm Activation Theory ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Value Belief Norm Theory

Social, environmental, and economic problems related to urban living have surpassed the agenda of policy and decision-makers as well as general public opinion in recent decades. To address urban and environmental issues, it is pivotal to examine how people think, feel, judge, and act with respect to sustainability. While some prominent theories exist and various attempts have been made to propose synthesized models, there are still gaps and discrepancies within the literature of environmental psychological theories. As such, the aim of this paper is to critically review the literature by focusing on a few of the most influential environmental, prosocial, and psychological behaviour theories, which include Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB), Norm Activation Theory (NAT), Value-Belief-Norm Theory (VBN), and the New Environmental Paradigm (NEP). The Scopus database has been searched systematically for the relevant studies. This paper concludes that an integrative approach to urban sustainability understanding and behaviour is needed. A framework is presented that consists of three layers of clustered components: (1) internal socio-psychological determinants, (2) personality traits, and (3) influencing external factors such as social, cultural, economic, and institutional factors. The model proposed in the study provides opportunities to further develop theoretical approaches and establish new measures of an Urban Sustainability Understanding and Behaviour assessment.

scholarly journals BEHAVIOURAL MODEL FOR DECISION-MAKERS’ INTENTION TO ADOPT GREEN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN NIGERIAN MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-171
Author(s):  
Abba Kyari Buba ◽  
Othman Bin Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Manufacturing Industries ◽  
Green It ◽  
Intention To Adopt ◽  
Equation Modelling ◽  
Activation Theory ◽  
Norm Activation Theory ◽  
Data Validity ◽  
Green Information Technology

Environmental degradation has become a critical concern around the world. This study will investigate the influence of managers’ behavior in decision making regarding intention to adopt Green IT. The research will integrate the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) and the Norm Activation Theory (NAT) to the explore factors that affect decision-makers’ intention to adopt Green IT in Nigerian Manufacturing Industries. In this study, quantitative approach will be employed in collecting data through a survey. By employing a non-random sampling, a survey will be conducted among decision makers. Partial Least Squares Structural Equation modelling (PLS-SEM) method will test consistency, reliability and data validity.  The outcome of this research could be significant in helping decision makers to adopt Green IT successfully.

Different Routes to Explain Pro-Environmental Behavior: an Overview and Assessment

2010 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulf Liebe
Keyword(s):  
Rational Choice Theory ◽  
Choice Theory ◽  
Environmental Behavior ◽  
Social Dilemma ◽  
Theory Testing ◽  
Explanatory Factors ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Activation Theory ◽  
Norm Activation Theory ◽  
Empirical Performance

AbstractA variety of theoretical approaches have been taken in an attempt to understand, explain, and promote pro-environmental behavior. The present article gives an overview, including specific applications, and identifies and discusses various strategies used by researchers to deal with the availability of different approaches. The overview includes elementary rational choice theory, the theory of planned behavior, norm-activation theory, theories of habitual behavior, and theories within a social dilemma framework. Strategies identified are ‘extending existing theories by single explanatory factors’, ‘comparing theories’ in a competitive manner, and ‘combining theories’ in an integrative manner. It is argued that research would benefit from more standardization in empirical applications, from more competitive theory testing as opposed to integrative theory testing, and from an evaluation of approaches on theoretical grounds as opposed to focusing solely on empirical performance.

scholarly journals The Moderating Effect of Perceived Policy Effectiveness in Residents’ Waste Classification Intentions: A Study of Bengbu, China

2022 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 801
Author(s):  
Xin Shen ◽  
Bowei Chen ◽  
Markus Leibrecht ◽  
Huanzheng Du
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Moderating Effects ◽  
Policy Effectiveness ◽  
Equation Modelling ◽  
Activation Theory ◽  
Norm Activation Theory ◽  
Waste Classification ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Value Belief Norm Theory

The Chinese government is promoting a waste classification policy to solve the increasingly serious issue of cities being besieged by waste. Only few studies investigate whether residents’ understanding of garbage classification policy has an impact on their garbage classification behaviour and the nature of such impact. The purposes of this study are twofold: first, to explore conceptually the mechanism behind any moderating effects of perceived policy effectiveness (PPE) on waste classification and, second, to examine empirically if and how PPE influences the relationships between attitude (ATT), subjective norm (SN), perceived behaviour control (PBC), awareness of consequence (AC) and waste classification intention (WCI). The conceptual model of the study is developed by combining insights from the theory of planned behaviour, norm activation theory and value–belief–norm theory. A total of 351 questionnaires were administered in person to households in Bengbu, China. The results based on structural equation modelling with partial least squares show that PPE negatively moderates the relationship between AC and WCI. AC is more strongly related with the intention to classify waste when PPE is weaker. Likewise, when PPE is higher, people’s awareness of consequences becomes less important for WCI. The findings have significant implications in policymakers’ developing guidelines and offer a framework for implementing more effective waste classification policy.

scholarly journals Sustainable Geographical Changes in Rural Areas: Key Paths, Orientations and Limits

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 2059
Author(s):  
Angel Paniagua
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Rural Studies ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Rural Restructuring ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
The Individual ◽  
New Rurality

Rural differentiation processes have formed the backbone of rural studies. Owing to the strength of rural–urban and local–global relationships, the theoretical approaches to rural restructuring in the Anglo-Saxon world and new rurality in Latin America only have a limited capacity to explain contemporary global phenomena of rural spaces. Due to this, transverse theoretical and methodological approaches have emerged to explain social, environmental and spatial (rural) processes. Here, a new approach is proposed called the individual–global field, based on the individual–global binary category to substitute the traditional relevance of the locality–community–globality association This new approach tries to reinvigorate rural geography in a more flexible way, based on minor theory, to adapt to all the phenomena that can occur globally. In any case, various spatial planes are proposed, dominated by specific socioeconomic processes on which the rural individual would move.

scholarly journals Lost in Transition? Directions for an Economic Geography of Urban Sustainability Transitions

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 2434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Fastenrath ◽  
Boris Braun
Keyword(s):  
Economic Geography ◽  
Urban Sustainability ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Sustainability Transitions ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
The City

Socio-technical transitions towards more sustainable modes of production and consumption are receiving increasing attention in the academic world and also from political and economic decision-makers. There is increasing demand for resource-efficient technologies and institutional innovations, particularly at the city level. However, it is widely unclear how processes of change evolve and develop and how they are embedded in different socio-spatial contexts. While numerous scholars have contributed to the vibrant research field around sustainability transitions, the geographical expertise largely has been ignored. The lack of knowledge about the role of spatial contexts, learning processes, and the co-evolution of technological, economical, and socio-political processes has been prominently addressed. Bridging approaches from Transition Studies and perspectives of Economic Geography, the paper presents conceptual ideas for an evolutionary and relational understanding of urban sustainability transitions. The paper introduces new perspectives on sustainability transitions towards a better understanding of socio-spatial contexts.

scholarly journals Aboriginal Tourism as Sustainable Social-Environmental Enterprise (SSEE): A Tlingit Case Study from Southeast Alaska

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paphaphit Wanasuk ◽  
Thomas F Thornton
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Southeast Alaska ◽  
Operational Strategies ◽  
Cultural Sustainability ◽  
Operating Space ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Short Time ◽  
Safe Operating ◽  
Dominant Influence

The Tlingit Aboriginal tourism enterprise named Icy Strait Point in Hoonah, Southeast Alaska is used as a case study to develop the new concept of Sustainable Social-Environmental Enterprise (SSEE). SSEE is defined as an innovative enterprise that has dynamic operational strategies while still maintaining its corporate core values and integrating social, environmental, cultural, economic and political (SECEP) sustainabilities in its operations. The SSEE framework assesses enterprises according to five domains of sustainability: social, environmental, cultural, economic, and political. Applying this framework, we find that while social, economic, and cultural sustainability goals have been achieved in a relatively short time by the Aboriginal tourism enterprise in Hoonah, the political and environmental spheres of sustainability are constrained by the dominant influence of the multinational cruise ship industry over tourism development. Thus, for an emerging tourism enterprise to be sustainable, we suggest each of these livelihood dimensions needs to achieve "a safe operating space" that is adaptable over time and to changing social and environmental circumstances.

scholarly journals Variety of theoretical approaches to legal interpretation

2021 ◽  
pp. 109-114
Author(s):  
A. Yе. Shevchenko ◽  
S. V. Kudin
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Special Kind ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Legal Interpretation ◽  
True Nature ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Law

The article explores the variety of theoretical approaches to legal interpretation. It has been determined that the variety of approaches to legal interpretation is due to the complexity of the nature of the origin of this phenomenon, the conditions for the development of post-non-classical science, and the recent influence of the paradigm of comparism, which assumes pluralism of opinions and ideas in legal research. It was found that in modern science there are four traditional theoretical approaches to the essence of legal interpretation. It has been determined that the content of the first approach is revealed within the framework of legal hermeneutics through a number of categories. The essence of the second approach (formal dogmatic or static) is expressed in the fact that the subject of interpretation must strictly and rigorously follow the letter of the law, establish only the meaning of the normative legal act, which the lawmaking body enshrined in it at the time of the publication of the act. That is why normative legal acts cannot, through interpretation, adapt to the changing economic, social, political, cultural internal and external conditions of public life. It is proved that the essence of the dynamic theoretical approach lies in the fact that the subject of legal interpretation adapts the normative legal act to the changes that occur in various social relations. It was found that there is a contradiction between the dynamic and static approaches in legal interpretation, which is reflected in the traditionally called objective and subjective theories of interpretation. According to the subjective theory, the purpose of legal interpretation is to establish the «will of the legislator», and according to the objective theory – to establish the «will of the law». It has been substantiated that the essence of the activity approach is that interpretation is considered as a special kind of legal activity aimed at understanding and clarifying the content of legal texts. The authors of this article point out that in order to establish the true nature of legal interpretation, the methodological foundations of the study should be presented much broader and more diverse, and not be limited only to traditional approaches. When studying it, a comprehensive, integrative approach is needed, which, based on the relevance of interdisciplinary relationships, would include logical, language (linguistic), philosophical, sociological, psychological, axiological (value), ethical, legal, historical, economic, political, mathematical and other substantiation of legal interpretation. Keywords: diversity, theoretical approach, legal interpretation, interpretive practice, integrative approach

Forum: Nonuse of Nuclear Weapons in World Politics: Toward the Third Generation of “Nuclear Taboo” Research

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michal Smetana ◽  
Carmen Wunderlich
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Large N ◽  
Second Wave ◽  
Depth Interviews

Abstract That nuclear weapons have not been used in war since 1945 is one of the most intriguing research puzzles in the field of international relations. It has sparked a fruitful scholarly debate: Can the persistence of the nonuse of nuclear weapons be understood with reference to a normative “taboo” subject to a constructivist logic of appropriateness, or does it rather constitute a prudent tradition based on a logic of consequences as rationalist scholars would have it? Recently, a study by Daryl Press, Scott Sagan, and Benjamin Valentino provided further impetus for this debate and opened up a “second generation” of “taboo” research. Unlike the first generation, the second wave examined attitudes toward nuclear use among the general public rather than elite decision-makers and used large-N experimental surveys rather than in-depth interviews and archival research. In particular, these studies raised several methodological questions on how to capture the “atomic aversion”: Is it meaningful to examine public attitudes in order to grasp the validity of the nuclear “taboo” (as opposed to elite perspectives) and can we infer a weakening of the normative aversion toward nuclear use from public surveys? Bringing together the pioneers of the original debate as well as more recent contributors, this special forum seeks to take stock of the progress that has been made by discussing the theoretical, conceptual, and methodological underpinnings of the research on the nonuse of nuclear weapons. Specifically, the contributions critically reflect upon the second wave of nuclear taboo scholarship with the overall aim to build bridges between different theoretical approaches and to identify avenues for further research in this area. Ultimately, this forum seeks to present the relevance of re-envisioning nuclear taboo research to a broader audience.

Performance Evaluation of Sustainable Smart Cities in India

2019 ◽  
pp. 14-40
Author(s):  
Rajeev Ranjan ◽  
Prasenjit Chatterjee ◽  
Dilbagh Panchal ◽  
Dragan Pamucar
Keyword(s):  
Smart Cities ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Color Coding ◽  
Social Growth ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
System Method ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Individual Criterion ◽  
Indian Cities ◽  
Holistic Manner

Indian cities have seen accelerated economic and social growth, attracting more and more people from all parts of the country. Growth achieved by cities is linked to their ability to address issues related to urbanization and associated social, environmental, and economic issues in a holistic manner, while making the most of future opportunities. In this chapter, using PROMETHEE and GAIA (geometrical analysis for interactive aid) approaches, an attempt is made to evaluate the performances of 20 smart cities in Indian context based on 10 critically important criteria. A GIS (geographic information system) method and an HSV (hue-saturation-value) color coding scheme-based on cartographic principles are also employed to identify the influence of individual criterion on the overall rank of the smart cities. This analysis would help the decision makers to identify the strengths and deficiencies of Indian smart cities with respect to considered criteria conditions so that proper promotional and growth actions can be implemented.

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