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Factors Influencing Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors: A U.K. Case Study of Household Waste Management

Barr, Stewart·2007·Environment and Behavior

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Three waste management behaviors (waste reduction, reuse, and recycling) were examined with the use of a conceptual framework developed by the author. It was posited that environmental values, situational characteristics, and psychological factors all play a significant role in the prediction of waste management behavior, within the context of a core intention-behavior relationship. The framework was tested in a self-report questionnaire of 673 residents of Exeter, UK. It was found that the predictors of reduction, reuse, and recycling behavior differed significantly, with reduction and reuse being predicted by underlying environmental values, knowledge, and concern-based variables. Recycling behavior was, in contrast, characterized as highly normative behavior. The use of the approach taken for investigating other environmental behaviors is examined.

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Márquez, M., Ojeda, S., & Hidalgo, H. (2008) · Resources Conservation and Recycling · doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2008.07.011 · Cited by 61
Barriers to Household Waste Recycling: Empirical Evidence from South Africa
Strydom, W. F. (2018) · Recycling · doi:10.3390/recycling3030041 · Cited by 68
“Barr differentiated between environmental values, situational variables (which include the behavioral context such as recycling facilities and services, the socio-demographic variables such as age, gender, education, and income, and the knowledge and experience variables) and psychological factors (taking responsibili…”
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Development and validation of Children’s Responsible Environmental Behavior Scale
Erdoğan, M., Ok, A., & Marcinkowski, T. (2012) · Environmental Education Research · doi:10.1080/13504622.2011.627421 · Cited by 60
“…Moser 2007; Dwyer et al. 1993; Hines, Hungerford, and Tomera 1986/1987; Hornik et al. 1995; Osbaldiston 2004; Zelezny 1999) and empirical studies (Barr 2007; Cottrell and Graefe 1997; Hsu 1997; Manzo and Weinstein 1990; McKenzie-Mohr et al. 1995) and models proposed (Hines, Hungerford, and…”
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Determinants of Tourist Behaviour in Coastal Environmental Protection
Kim, A. (2012) · Tourism Geographies · doi:10.1080/14616688.2011.597774 · Cited by 60
“For example, females and older visitors tended to be more concerned about environmental issues, such as ‘cliff erosion’ and ‘beach litter’, than males and younger visitors, consistent with the findings of some previous studies (Barr 2007).”
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Household food waste: attitudes, barriers and motivations
Nunkoo, R., Bhadain, M., & Baboo, S. (2021) · British Food Journal · doi:10.1108/bfj-03-2020-0195 · Cited by 85
Influences on the water testing behaviors of private well owners.
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Recycling behaviour: Mapping knowledge domain through bibliometrics and text mining
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The social dimensions of smart meters in the United States: Demographics, privacy, and technology readiness
Hmielowski, J. D., Boyd, A. D., Harvey, G. M., & Joo, J. (2019) · Energy Research & Social Science · doi:10.1016/j.erss.2019.05.003 · Cited by 77
Characteristics and influencing factors of mulch film use for pollution control in China: Microcosmic evidence from smallholder farmers
Li, C., Sun, M., Xu, X., & Zhang, L. (2020) · Resources Conservation and Recycling · doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2020.105222 · Cited by 56
The importance of consumer motives for green mobility: A multi-modal perspective
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Internal Motivations, External Contexts, and Sustainable Consumption Behavior in China—Based on the TPB-ABC Integration Model
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Combining threat and efficacy messaging to increase public engagement with climate change in Beijing, China
Xue, W., Hine, D., Marks, A. D. G., Phillips, W. J., Nunn, P. D., & Zhao, S.-Y. (2016) · Climatic Change · doi:10.1007/s10584-016-1678-1 · Cited by 56
“The scales have been shown to be useful predictors of both self-reported and observed behaviour (e.g., Barr 2007; Casey and Scott 2006; Olli, Grendstad, and Wollebaek 2001; Vining and Ebreo 1992).”
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Attitude components affecting adoption of soil and water conservation measures by paddy farmers in Rasht County, Northern Iran
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Understanding Factors Influencing Project Managers’ Behavioral Intentions to Reduce Waste in Construction Projects
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Determinants of Plate Leftovers in One German Catering Company
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An evaluation of four key methods for monitoring household waste prevention campaigns in the UK
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Racial Differences in Perceptions of Air Pollution Health Risk: Does Environmental Exposure Matter?
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The Effect of Nature-based Tourism, Destination Attachment and Property Ownership on Environmental-friendliness of Visitors: A Study in Thailand
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“While on holidays and away from normal social norms, these individual barriers may obstruct international visitors from acting pro-environmentally. This research found that the lack of environment-friendly infrastructure is a significant barrier which obstructs international visitors from exhibiting both pro-environme…”
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Solid Waste Management in Malaysia – A Move Towards Sustainability
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“Barr (2007) defines waste hierarchy order as a waste management behaviour which relates to recycling, reusing and reduction.”
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Environmental management intentions: an empirical investigation of Argentina's polluting firms.
Vazquez-Brust, D., & Liston‐Heyes, C. (2010) · Journal of Environmental Management · doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2010.01.005 · Cited by 54
Environmental Problems and Quality of Life: Situational Factor as a Predictor of Recycling Behaviour
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What Shapes Public Reactions to Climate Change? Overview of Research and Policy Implications
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A system dynamics approach for enhancing social behaviours regarding the reuse of packaging
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“Later on another study was conducted by Barr (2007) to investigate the factors influencing environmental attitudes and behaviour.”
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Can digital solutions help in the minimization of out-of-home waste? An analysis from the client and business perspective
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The Negative Associations Between Materialism and Pro-Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors: Individual and Regional Evidence From China
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“It has been shown that individuals tend to overreport their pro-environmental behaviors as a result of social desirability bias (Barr, 2007; Fuj, Hennessy, & Mak, 1985; Kormos & Gifford, 2014).”
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How Environmental Knowledge and Green Values Affect the Relationship between Green Human Resource Management and Employees’ Green Behavior: From the Perspective of Emission Reduction
Zhu, S., Wu, Y., & Shen, Q. (2021) · Processes · doi:10.3390/pr10010038 · Cited by 57
Public understanding of protected area designation
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The future of food waste: Application of circular economy
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Variables that influence the environmental behavior of adults
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“This finding supports the assumption that both environmental knowledge/thinking and attitudes toward the environment are influential in promoting environmental behavior (Kaiser, Wolfing, and Fuhrer 1999; Stern 2000; Morrone, Mancl, and Carr 2001; Barr 2007).”
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Transforming consumption: The role of values, beliefs, and norms in promoting four types of sustainable behavior
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Intrinsic incentives in household waste recycling: The case of Italy in the year 1998
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Consuming Responsibly: Exploring Environmentally Responsible Consumption Behaviors
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“Studies have been undertaken to investigate the relationship/s between psychographic and demographic factors, and environmental or green behavior (e.g., Barr, 2007; Khare, 2014, 2015).”
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Understanding proenvironmental intentions and behaviors: The importance of considering both the behavior setting and the type of behavior
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“…correlations between different proenvironmental behaviors do exist, but that the strength of these correlations can vary considerably (see also Barr, 2007; Barr, Gilg, & Ford, 2005; Bratt, Stern, Matthies, & Nenseth, 2015; Harland, Staats, & Wilke, 1999; Kaiser & Wilson, 2004; Thøgersen &…”
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From social interactions to private environmental behaviours: The case of consumer food waste
Piras, S., Righi, S., Setti, M., Koseoglu, N., Grainger, M., Stewart, G. B., & Vittuari, M. (2021) · Resources Conservation and Recycling · doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.105952 · Cited by 62
“To the best of our knowledge, the individual vs household issue has never been investigated in the food waste literature where instead household size has been identified as one of the main determinants of waste levels (Grainger et al., 2018a,b; Setti et al., 2016; Stancu et al., 2016; Parizeau et al., 2015; Secondi et…”
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How to prevent food waste behaviour? A deep empirical research
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Public attitudes about urban forest ecosystem services management: A case study in Oregon cities
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From the shopping basket to the landfill: Drivers of consumer food waste behaviour.
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Measuring Actions for Nature—Development and Validation of a Pro-Nature Conservation Behaviour Scale
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Authors: Barr, S.
Affiliations: University of Exeter (GB)
Corresponding author: Barr, Stewart
ORCID: Barr, Stewart
Venue: Environment and Behavior
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2007-07
Volume: 39
Issue: 4
Pages: 435-473
ISSN: 0013-9165 (ISSN-L)
1552-390X
DOI: 10.1177/0013916505283421
OpenAlex: W1989535098
Cited by: 849
References: 0
Citations by year: 2026: 47 · 2025: 40 · 2024: 46 · 2023: 59 · 2022: 52 · 2021: 65 · 2020: 67 · 2019: 60 · 2018: 71 · 2017: 46 · 2016: 44 · 2015: 39 · 2014: 45 · 2013: 41 · 2012: 34
FWCI: 76.66
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations: Environment and Behavior (publishedVersion)
Topics: Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Pro-Environmental Behavior and Attitudes
Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Waste Management and Disposal › Waste Management and Recycling
Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Waste Management and Disposal › Municipal Solid Waste Management
Keywords: environmental attitudes, environmental behavior, waste management behavior, waste reduction, reuse, recycling, environmental values, situational characteristics, psychological factors, intention-behavior relationship, normative behavior, environmental concern, environmental knowledge

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