It starts from home? Explaining environmentally responsible resource and waste management

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41110%2F23%3A94853" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41110/23:94853 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2023.1136171" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2023.1136171</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2023.1136171" target="_blank" >10.3389/fenvs.2023.1136171</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

It starts from home? Explaining environmentally responsible resource and waste management

Original language description

Resource and waste management are indispensable to environmentally conscious action and a large part of EU Green politics. Little is known about factors affecting individual propensity for resource and waste management. The article examines the effects of environmental concerns, perceptions of climate change, preferences for EU integration, and media exposure (traditional and new) on the propensity to save resources and waste management employing a representative sample of 904 respondents in the Czech Republic. Methodologically we rely on principal component analysis, correlations, and a set of ordinal regression analyses. The results suggest that environmental and climate concerns increase the propensity to save resources and separate waste. The preferences for EU integration and media exposure were unrelated to saving resources and waste management, except exposure to online news, which negatively affected the environmentally motivated reduction of unnecessary car trips. The results imply immense consequences on the conceptual and policy-making levels. On the conceptual level the results suggest, that the mass media stopped to fulfill its developmental and persuasive functions, as generally people do not relate their pro-environmental behavior to the mass media exposure. From the policy-making perspective the mass media proves to be a poor resource for the pro-environmental actions as in case of social networks the role of mass media on waste management proved negative. We also suggest that saving resources and waste management stopped to be a topic of political and media influence but transferred to the domain of personal values and economic decisions.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Frontiers in Environmental Sciences

ISSN

2296-665X

e-ISSN

2296-665X

Volume of the periodical

11

Issue of the periodical within the volume

JUN 27 2023

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

1-18

UT code for WoS article

001026680400001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85164714709