Public perceptions of the concept of green growth: application in Athens, Greece, during a period of economic crisis.
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Public perceptions of the concept of green growth: application in Athens, Greece, during a period of economic crisis. Efi Drimili1 · Ζoi Gareiou1 · Efthimios Zervas1 Received: 18 March 2019 / Accepted: 23 August 2019 © Springer Nature B.V. 2019
Abstract The global world’s financial crisis of 2008–2009 caused a global recession that greatly affected the economy of Greece. Since then, Greece faces a severe financial crisis and governments announced, among other measures to tackle this crisis, the implementation of green growth strategies. The aim of this study is the investigation of public’s perceptions of green growth strategies that have been implemented so far, the investigation of the effect of the socioeconomic characteristics on these perceptions and the identification of patterns of attitudes toward the concept of green growth. For this purpose, a questionnaire was constructed and addressed to 500 inhabitants of Athens. The majority of the respondents believe that economic growth can be enhanced by green growth. On the other hand, most of the respondents, mainly younger and more educated people, express a strong prejudice for its adoption by enterprises and its implementation by the state. Overall, results reveal that despite the announcements of the political parties concerning green growth policy, the majority of the respondents accepts and applauds green growth as a theoretical concept rather than counting its benefits as an already implemented policy. These findings consist an important assessment tool for policy makers that can be used to redesign policies in order to achieve the goals of green growth and to meet the real needs of the citizens in a period of economic crisis. Keywords Green growth · Public perception · Economic crisis · Job creation · Enterprises · Athens Abbreviations list CSR Corporate Social Responsibility ELSTAT Hellenic Statistical Authority KMO Test Kaiser–Meyer–Olkin Test OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development PCA Principal Component Analysis PCs Principal Components * Efthimios Zervas [email protected] 1
Laboratory of Technology and Policy of Energy and Environment, School of Science and Technology, Hellenic Open University, Parodos Aristotelous 18, 26335 Patra, Greece
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1 Introduction A question was raised at the beginning of the 1970s about the limits of economic growth and its consequences for the environment and society. The emerged doubts were related to whether the economies could be expanded indefinitely, since natural resources are limited (Meadows 1972). The concept of “sustainable development” was proposed as an answer to these questions by the “Our Common Future” report (or “Brundtland Report”, WCED, 1987). The sustainable development was defined as a development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future gene
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