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Relationships between Place Attachment and Pro-environmental Behavior: Social and Educational Perspectives

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Psychology of Sustainability and Sustainable Development".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 15407

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Faculty of Economics, Mercatorum University, 00186 Rome, Italy
Interests: environmental psychology; antisocial behavior; aggressive behavior

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School of Education, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland
Interests: youth and deviance; well-being, bullying and victimisation in school contexts; sexual minority; teaching attitudes; addiction in adolescence; multilevel models; longitudinal design; cohort studies

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Dear Colleagues,

The aim of this issue is to collect educational and social studies and reflections that examine the role of positive attitudes towards the environment.

Another aspect we aim to deepen is place attachment and its effects on well-being and on social and educational life, taking into account all those who live in the social scene.

Overall, we aim to build a frame that includes the following aspects: willingness, daily protection activities, and striving to change the surroundings. These three dimensions cover three levels of environmental activities that include the link between the willingness and the impacts and the cooperation between personal activities and striving to change the public.

Therefore, we are collecting interdisciplinary studies that highlight the key role of the aforementioned aspects.

Prof. Irene Petruccelli
Dr. Giulio D’Urso
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • pro-environmental behavior
  • place attachment
  • social and educational studies

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Motivations of Households towards Conserving Water and Using Purified Water in Czechia
by Roman Lyach and Jiří Remr
Sustainability 2023, 15(3), 2202; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15032202 - 25 Jan 2023
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The need to assess reasons why households do not want to conserve water or use purified water is critical when facing water scarcity during the climate change crisis. This study aimed to provide an analysis of perceptions of the public in Czechia towards [...] Read more.
The need to assess reasons why households do not want to conserve water or use purified water is critical when facing water scarcity during the climate change crisis. This study aimed to provide an analysis of perceptions of the public in Czechia towards water conservation. A representative questionnaire survey (n = 1824) was conducted in the whole Czech Republic to see why households hesitate to conserve water and use purified water. We discovered that most household owners are interested in conserving water and some of them are interested in using purified water. The household owners are willing to conserve water if it does not cost them too much time or comfort. They are mostly willing to think about using purified water for purposes that are hygienically safe. They mostly trust people and public figures that are closest to them, and they consume media like television and the Internet. We recommend that any communication campaign aiming to persuade households to conserve water and use purified water should explain how to effectively conserve water in households. It should also explain that using purified water in households is not unhygienic and is almost completely safe. Full article
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Paper Analysis of the Relevance of Place Attachment to Environment-Related Behavior: A Systematic Literature Review
by Xueli Feng, Zhibin Zhang and Xianfei Chen
Sustainability 2022, 14(23), 16073; https://doi.org/10.3390/su142316073 - 1 Dec 2022
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The discourse regarding place attachment (PA) has grown even more divergent, and an array of scholars and practitioners apply place attachment concepts in their work, drawing out associations between PA and environment-related behavior and revealing how an understanding of people’s attachment to place [...] Read more.
The discourse regarding place attachment (PA) has grown even more divergent, and an array of scholars and practitioners apply place attachment concepts in their work, drawing out associations between PA and environment-related behavior and revealing how an understanding of people’s attachment to place can influence research, policy, and design practice. In this paper, we use bibliometrics and CiteSpace software to quantify and visualize 528 publications of place attachment and environment-related behavior research (PAEBR) in the core collection database of Web of Science (WoS) from 1 January 2004 to 1 November 2022 and trace the main overview of the research from the number of published papers. First, we present the number of papers published, research discipline distribution, the core authors of articles, the fundamental condition of countries and research organizations, and the major journals of articles involved in PAEBR through bibliometrics. Second, we identify trending research topics in PAEBR using keyword co-occurrence analysis. The results show that the four research trending topics involved climate change, pro-environmental behavior, and environmental threat. All of these provide readers with a preliminary understanding of PAEBR, indicating that cooperation and analysis involving multiple disciplines, specialties, and perspectives will become the dominant trend in this field. Full article
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Systematic Review
Evidence on the Relationship between Place Attachment and Behavioral Intentions between 2010 and 2021: A Systematic Literature Review
by Lisa Dang and Jan Weiss
Sustainability 2021, 13(23), 13138; https://doi.org/10.3390/su132313138 - 27 Nov 2021
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Place attachment is a key concept in understanding affective person–place relationships, and it provides an appropriate approach for the study of human behavior. This systematic literature review based on the PRISMA guidelines focuses on the relationships between place attachment and behavioral intentions. Due [...] Read more.
Place attachment is a key concept in understanding affective person–place relationships, and it provides an appropriate approach for the study of human behavior. This systematic literature review based on the PRISMA guidelines focuses on the relationships between place attachment and behavioral intentions. Due to the high number of studies that used place attachment as an independent or mediating variable, we categorized the studies into different research areas, which include business and management, risk and crisis, urban planning, environmental psychology, leisure, and hospitality and tourism. The results of the qualitative analysis revealed that most of the studies provided empirical evidence of a significant relationship between place attachment and willingness to pay, loyalty, risk coping behavior, land management practices, civic engagement, pro-environmental behaviors, and pro-tourism behaviors such as revisit and recommendation intentions. After we present our results and conclusion, we provide an outlook on the need for further research. Full article
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