T. Aghyari, hir; H. Honarvar; M.B. Alizadeh Aghdam
Volume 6, Issue 1 , December 2017, , Pages 9-18
Abstract
Changing in life style and consumption patterns has significant effect on environment, so that these changes increased ecological footprint (human effect on environment) and decreased ecological capacity. Along with other factors, two social factors viewed as effective factors on ecological footprint ...
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Changing in life style and consumption patterns has significant effect on environment, so that these changes increased ecological footprint (human effect on environment) and decreased ecological capacity. Along with other factors, two social factors viewed as effective factors on ecological footprint and made human and societies depart from environment sustainability, materialism and consumerism. The present study has been done with the aim of investigating the relationship among materialism, consumerism and ecological footprint. The population study is Urmia citizens and its statistic sample is 516 subjects in 15-64 ages that have been studied by use of survey method and cluster sampling. The achieved results show that variables such as materialism, consumerism and socio-economic status have had a positive and meaningful effect with less and meaningful effect of gender on rate of consumption’s ecological footprint among Urmia citizens. Also, the results of multivariable analysis showed that mentioned variables with variable of respondent’s gender generally explains 0.25 of changes of dependent variable.
H. Tavakolaghayarihir; M.B. Alizadehaghdam; H. Honarvar
Volume 5, Issue 1 , December 2016, , Pages 53-65
Abstract
Responsible-sustainable consumption is one of the important aspects of sustainable development which depends on achieving long-term economic growth consistent with environmental and social needs. In fact, recent definitions of sustainability on the basis of the “triple bottom line” concept ...
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Responsible-sustainable consumption is one of the important aspects of sustainable development which depends on achieving long-term economic growth consistent with environmental and social needs. In fact, recent definitions of sustainability on the basis of the “triple bottom line” concept (environment, society and economic), represents the interrelation of economic, social and environmental factors. Environmental literacy can be considered as one of the immediate determinants of responsible-sustainable consumption. Present study aims to investigate the relationship between Environmental literacy and responsible-sustainable consumption. The population of this study is 15-64 year-old citizens of Urmia and the statistic sample is 516 persons, examined using the survey method and cluster sampling. The results show that there is a significant positive relationship between Environ-mental literacy and its aspects with responsible- sustainable consumption. Also, multiple regression results show that 26% of the variance in responsible-sustainable consumption are determined by environmental attitudes and behaviors (the aspects of Environmental literacy).
