Environmental Education
Jahangir Karami; Fateme Dehghan; Kamran Yazdanbakhsh
Abstract
Environmental concerns of people in the community have increased due to increasing environmental problems and issues. This in turn leads to changes in consumer behavior and purchasing decisions. Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate the effects of attitudes, mental norms, and perceived consumer ...
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Environmental concerns of people in the community have increased due to increasing environmental problems and issues. This in turn leads to changes in consumer behavior and purchasing decisions. Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate the effects of attitudes, mental norms, and perceived consumer behavioral control using the theory of planned behavior, taking into account the role of environmental concerns and the intention to buy green products. For this purpose, the research data was collected from a sample of 867 people in the cities and villages of Kermanshah City, and the data was analyzed by structural equation modeling. The findings revealed that attitudes (36%), mental norms (55%), and perceived behavioral control (50%) all had positive effects on pro-environmental behavior; additionally, environmental concerns (40%), and the intention to buy green products (58%), both had positive effects on pro-environmental behavior.
Amir Hossein Pirmoradi; Farahnaz Rostami; Abdolhamid Papzan
Abstract
The destructive effects of the environment, the reduction of human health and other living organisms, and the food security crisis, is one of the most important issues facing the global community, which has attracted the attention of many researchers. The question is whether the nature of self-farming ...
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The destructive effects of the environment, the reduction of human health and other living organisms, and the food security crisis, is one of the most important issues facing the global community, which has attracted the attention of many researchers. The question is whether the nature of self-farming alone is responsible for all such destructive effects, or is the actions of actors within the agricultural system stimulating and exacerbating these unsustainable effects? So, in the present study, we try to investigate the unsustainable Behaviours of farmers in Kermanshah using a qualitative study on the typology and depth of the event. In this regard, the studied samples were farmers and experts in agriculture and environmental Jihad, which according to the number of villages (10 districts) were selected through purposeful sampling (chain type). The number of participants in this study was 33. Data Collected from interviews and focus group discussion continues until theoretical saturation has been achieved. The validity and reliability of the results were confirmed by the plurality of data and feedback from the participants. Aggressive unsustainable Behaviour was extracted in 8 main themes. Relationships among these Behaviours are also displayed using the C-map software. Investigations and interviews provided a researcher with a new picture of unsustainable agronomic Behaviour and uncovered the fact that unsustainable agronomic Behaviours were influenced by the conditions, factors, and different intrinsic and extrinsic factors.
