How to Reduce Individuals’ Ecological Footprint without Harming Their Well-Being: An Application to Belgium
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Human activities are a key driver of many environmental problems the world is facing today, including climate change, disruption biogeochemical cycles, and biodiversity loss. Behavioural changes at individual household level needed to reduce humanity’s impact, but people also need capacity behave in sustainable way. If their well-being negatively impacted or if behaving sustainably too time consuming expensive, might be less inclined change behaviour. In this article, we look determinants different types pro-environmental behaviour how these associated with experienced levels well-being. More specifically, focus on behaviours that influence both ecological footprint (EF) satisfaction life. our analysis include socio-demographic characteristics number psychological antecedents (PEB). The data use was collected Flanders (Belgium) allows us calculate EF each respondent individually. Our main conclusions threefold. First, even individuals provided opportunities more way, they do not always so (e.g., richer average have higher EF). Efforts could put place collective side public infrastructure) stimulate impact. Second, as distinguish seven components, able show differential effects determinants. Third, association between PEB life strong: only type housing significantly Related that, EF,
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Sustainability
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2071-1050']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su14095232