Situational factors driving climate change mitigation behaviors: the key role of pro-environmental family
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Situational factors driving climate change mitigation behaviors: the key role of pro‑environmental family Victor Corral‑Verdugo1 · Marc Yancy Lucas1 · César Tapia‑Fonllem1 · Anais Ortiz‑Valdez1 Received: 27 August 2018 / Accepted: 12 October 2019 © Springer Nature B.V. 2019
Abstract Climate change mitigation behaviors (CCMB) are actions required to decrease the greenhouse gas emissions responsible for anthropogenic climate change. The present study examines the influence of social and physical situational factors on CCMB in a sample of two hundred individuals living in a Mexican city. Participants responded to a series of scales focused on assessing CCMB such as household thermic comfort, pro-environmental family orientation, and perceptions of the city’s pro-environmental public facilities, services, and community values. All of these situational factors were significantly interrelated, which suggests that they all affect CCMB. Yet, according to a structural model, the only factor that resulted in a significant (and more salient) direct influence on CCMB was proenvironmental family orientation. A second structural model indicated that household thermic comfort, pro-environmental public facilities/services, and pro-environmental public values had an indirect effect on CCMB mediated by pro-environmental family orientation. Keywords Climate change · Mitigation behavior · Situational factors · Family · Structural models
1 Introduction Climate change (CC) constitutes the most urgent environmental problem humanity faces. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change operating under the auspices of the United Nations has estimated with more than 95% probability that human activity is responsible for current warming of the planet. As such, the actions of individuals * Victor Corral‑Verdugo [email protected] Marc Yancy Lucas [email protected] César Tapia‑Fonllem [email protected] Anais Ortiz‑Valdez [email protected] 1
Department of Psychology, University of Sonora, Hermosillo, Mexico
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and societies have caused potentially irreversible changes to climate systems, which in turn impact natural and human systems (IPCC 2014). The phenomenon is often referred to as anthropogenic greenhouse gas emission as it is the actions of people (such as dependency upon fossil fuels, land use decisions, and overconsumption) that result in the production of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) responsible for an increased average global temperature and changes in climate variability (Crowley 2000). Several pro-environmental actions identified as “climate change mitigation behaviors” are required to reduce greenhouse gases at the individual level. These behaviors include walking or biking instead of driving a car, reliance on fresh seasonal vegetables to minimize carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide emissions, reducing meat consumption to inhibit methane production, and avoiding the use of products that contain CFCs. Raisin
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