Mind the Gap: why do people act environmentally and what are the barriers to pro-environmental behavior?

TL;DR: Water-related resource use, emissions and ecosystem impacts of food consumed in Switzerland are investigated to identify spatial hotspots and impactful products so that awareness of policy-makers and individual consumers can be raised and efforts of detailed assessments can be streamlined.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors performed a content and discourse analysis of an online discussion forum used by the largest land-based shark fishing club in Florida and identified a minimum of dozens of cases of illegal shark fishing practices among forum users.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the residential satisfaction of households near highways, based on survey data collected among 1225 respondents in the Netherlands living within 1000 meters from a highway, and gain first insights into the reactions of people on highway adjustment projects, by studying people's expectations towards residential satisfaction as a consequence of the project with use of a multinomial logistic regression analysis.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors analyzed data in three consumption sectors of mobility, food consumption, and housing to investigate the behavioral impact of climate change awareness among the population and found that there is a broad, strongly positive attitude towards climate protection and increasingly high problem awareness, but this attitude does not immediately translate into notable behavioral changes.

TL;DR: In this paper, the author explains "theory and reasoned action" model and then applies the model to various cases in attitude courses, such as self-defense and self-care.

TL;DR: Cognitive dissonance theory links actions and attitudes as discussed by the authors, which holds that dissonance is experienced whenever one cognition that a person holds follows from the opposite of at least one other cognition that the person holds.

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TL;DR: In this paper, a theoretical model of personal normative influences on altruism is presented, which suggests that altruistic behavior is causally influenced by feelings of moral obligation to act on one's personally held norms.