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The Relationship among Adolescents' Environmental Experience, Environmental Consciousness and Pro-environmental Consumption Behavior (청소년의 환경체험활동경험, 환경의식 그리고 환경친화적 소비행동의 관계)

  • Jung, Joo Won;Cho, So Yeon
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.329-337
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    • 2015
  • The purpose of this study was to observe the influence adolescents' environmental experience and environmental consciousness have on the pro-environmental consumption behavior. Also by examining the variable relation, the study scoped out the effectiveness of environmental experience. For the analysis, high school students in Korea were gathered from online and the correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis, and Baron and Kenny mediation analysis were conducted among a total of 521 surveys. The main findings are as follows: First, adolescents' environmental experience, environmental consciousness and pro-environmental consumption behavior showed a positive relationship. In other words, the more the experience, the more sense of responsibility adolescents had towards the environment and society, leading them to have pro-environmental consumption behavior. Second, environmental experience and environmental consciousness were proven to be essential factors that have influence on the adolescents' pro-environmental consumption behavior. Third, partial mediating effect of environmental consciousness was verified in accordance with the relationship between environmental experience and pro-environmental consumption behaviour. The findings suggest the importance of adolescents' environmental consciousness and improvement of pro-environmental consumption behavior by having students gain environmental experience.

Factors Affecting the Intention of the Rice Farmers to Adopt the Integrated Cash Waqf Environmental Protection Model: An Empirical Study in Kedah Malaysia

  • AFROZ, Rafia;MUHIBBULLAH, Md.;MORSHED, Mohammed Niaz
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.189-199
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    • 2019
  • The objectives of this study are to propose the Integrated Waqf Environmental Protection Model (IWEP) and investigate the farmers' intention to adopt it. In developing the IWEP model and investigating farmers' willingness to adopt it, this study surveyed 400 farmers in Kedah. The intention of the farmers to adopt the proposed model was analysed by adding perceived barriers and socio-economic variables into the theory of reasoned action (TRA) model. The collected data were processed using structural equation modelling (SEM). The SEM results show that the subjective norm is positive and has a significant impact on the intentions of low-income farmers to accept the IWEP model. This indicates that the decision of the low-income farmers to accept the IWEP model is significantly influenced by their family members, neighbours and friends. Furthermore, awareness and perceived barriers have a greater impact on the elderly, highly educated and wealthy farmers. The findings indicate that the elderly, highly educated and wealthy farmers are aware of climate change and they perceive higher risks or barriers to climate change. As a result, they are more likely to have an adaptation intention. If we encourage people to create waqf fund, we can increase the value of the farmer and the country's total GDP.

A Study on the Family Life Participation of the Secondary Students and Related Variables -Focusing on Comparisons of Male and Female- (중.고등학생의 가정생활 참여도 및 관련변인에 관한 연구 -남.여학생 비교를 중심으로-)

  • 최동숙
    • Journal of Korean Home Economics Education Association
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.15-28
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    • 1996
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate the family life participation and to analysis its related variables focusing on comparisons of male and female in the secondary students. The questonaire included school environmental variables, family environmental variables, the preference degree of Home Economics, sex role attitudes and the family life participation. The participants were 600 middle and high school students but the final data used on this study were 559. For the statistical analysis of this study, fequency, mean, Cronbach’s ${\alpha}$ coefficient, one way ANOVA, t-test and multiple regression were calculated. The results of this study were summarized as follows;1) The degree of family life participation was a little higher than middle level. While the highest participation degree was family activities participation, the participation degree of household work, communication and decision-making, leisure activities were low. 2) The variables that influence on the family life participation were the level of living and preference degree of Home Economics for both male and female.

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The water-energy-food resources and environment: Evidence from selected SAARC countries

  • Mansoor, Abdul;Sultana, Baserat;Shafique, Saima;Zaman, Khalid
    • Advances in Energy Research
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.1-15
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    • 2019
  • The objective of the study is to examine the relationship between water resources, energy demand, food production, and environmental pollutants in selected SAARC nations, namely, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, during the period of 1990-2016. The results show that water, energy, and food (WEF) resources substantially affected air quality in the form of high mass carbon emissions, fossil fuel energy demand, methane discharges, nitrous oxide emissions, and greenhouse gas emissions in these countries. Food production and food deficit largely increase $CO_2$ emissions due to unsustainable production and malnutrition, while land use under cereal production increases $CH_4$ and $N_2O$ emissions. Electricity production escalates $CO_2$ emissions and fossil emissions across countries. The results support the carbon EKC hypothesis, while monotonic increasing function exists in case of fossil fuel energy. The study emphasizes the need to ensure environmental sustainability agenda by adopting cleaner production technologies in WEF resources.

The Perception and the Management Behavior on the Enviornmental Preservation-focused on the housewives in the metropolitan, small city and kun- (환경보전에 관한 인지와 관리행동 -대도시, 중 소도시, 군 단위 주부를 중심으로)

  • 오연옥
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.33 no.1
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    • pp.45-60
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    • 1995
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate some influencing factors related to the perception and the management behavior on the environmental pollution of the housewives in the metropolis. small city and Kun. This study is also to provide some knowledge and information on the environmental preservation. 2300 questionaires were distributed to the housewives from the end of April to the end of May in 1994. The 1850 quentionaires were obtained and the 1490 data were analyzed by frequency, percentage, mean, t-test, F-test, Duncan's prohoc test, stepwise multiple regression, path analysis and pearson's correlation. The most hypotheses of this study were accepted. Based on the findings of this study, the degree of concerns on the environmental provlems, the enviromental education, the einvironmental articles and the paticipation of the environmental events were the most important factors on the knowledge of the environmental preservation and the perception of the environmental pollution. And these factors were exerted important effects on the management behavior on the environmental preservation.

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Pro-environmental behavior of consumer and its related factors (소비자의 환경친화적 행동과 관련요인 분석)

  • 박운아
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.35 no.5
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    • pp.221-238
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    • 1997
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate the factors which influence on the propensity for pro-environmental consumer behavior. the data used in this study included 712 married women living in Seoul and Kwangju. Statistics used for data analysis were Reliability, t-test, one-way Anova, and Multiple Regression Analysis. According to the results of the regression, the relative importance of variables are in order of; pro-environmental behavior degree of reference group, residential district, ecological value orientation, economic value orientation, convenience-centric value orientation, type of dwelling, the adequacy of community resource, education experience of environment and their explanatory power totalled 30.35%. The result of this study coude be attributed to develop the environmental policy and education program to enhance of pro-environmental behavior. First, Economic approach and ecological approach toward the environmental affairs are not incompatible; indeed, they are may be related. I resume that both of two alternatives are useful to environment policy. And, environmental education be effectively related to pro-environment behavior, life-education and sysmatic support must be provided.

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An Empirical Study of the Relation between Environmental Regulation and Export of Korea (수입국의 환경규제가 한국의 수출에 미친 영향 실증분석)

  • Oh, Keun-Yeob;Myung, Chang-Yeon
    • Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.627-653
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    • 2005
  • The paper investigates the relation between importer's environmental regulation level and export of Korea by using the gravity model. We used the trade data of OECD for the year 2001 and environmental regulation indices of WEF. The main results of these empirical analysis are as follows. First, the influence of environmental regulation on export of whole industries have a significant result. Second, this effects matters at the industry level, too. But, the effects of the environmental regulation depends on the industries.

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Sustainability and International Environmental Agreements

  • Lin, Yu-Hsuan
    • Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.251-281
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    • 2015
  • This paper examines the perceptions of sustainability, which is conceptualised as cross-generational social preferences, on the formation of international environmental agreements (IEAs) in a two-stage game in two periods. There are two scenarios are considered: myopic and sustainable development scenarios. The myopic scenario assumes the decision makers only concern the present welfare. Whilst the scenario of sustainable development has two characters: cross-generational fairness and altruism. When both are taken into account, a coalition will be expanded. The numerical example indicates that the marginal cost of the total emissions is the crucial factor for the formation of IEAs. Only when the marginal cost is low, a sustainable system can be succeeded. While, the technological advancement may lead to a more efficient production per unit of emissions, it also encourages countries to emit more in total and have a lower level of welfare. The results confirm the importance of sustainability to IEAs. The lesson learnt from this study is: when decision makers are myopic, the system is unsustainable even if an IEA is formed. Only when the perception of sustainability is considered, the system could be sustainable. Regardless of the existence of IEAs, international environmental conventions shall not neglect the fundamental goal to pursue sustainable development.

The Effect of Consumers′ Environmental Conservation Behavior on the Purchase of Pro-Environmental and Used Products (소비자의 환경보전행동이 환경제품 및 중고제품 구매에 미치는 영향)

  • Huh Kyungok
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.42 no.9
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    • pp.85-97
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    • 2004
  • The effect of consumers' environmental conservation behavior on the purchase of pro-environmental and used products. This study utilized a representative, large data sample to determine consumers' environmental conservation behavior, and purchase of pro-environmental and used products. Differences in these behavioral traits were investigated by socio-demographic variables. In addition, this study investigated the effect of consumers' environmental conservation behavior on the purchase of pro-environmental and used product. The major result were as follows. First, the level of consumers' environmental conservation behavior was low, and consumers did not buy pro-environmental and used products frequently. Second, unemployed married women, consumers with very low or high level of education and high income, consumers older than 40's, and consumers living in apartments showed lower levels of environmental conservation behavior. Third, consumers who were married, dissatisfied with their environmental living conditions, or irrational were more likely to buy pro-environmental products. Men, young, and rational consumers were more likely to buy used products. On the other hand, the level of environmental behavior did not influence the purchase of pro-environmental and used products. The high level of behavior for environmental conservation did not result the purchase of pro-environmental and used products.