Promoting pro-environmental behaviours through induced hypocrisy

The Social Maintenance of Cooperation through Hypocrisy

Cooperation is widespread in human societies, but its maintenance at the group level remains puzzling if individuals benefit from not cooperating. Explanations of the maintenance of cooperation generally assume that cooperative and non-cooperative behavior in others can be assessed and copied accurately. However, humans have a well known capacity to deceive and thus to manipulate how others ass...

Promoting Pro-Poor Growth

Promoting Pro-Poor Growth

The issue Poverty and underdevelopment are closely correlated with lack of functional infrastructure and underemployment (ILO, 2010; OECD, 2005; World Bank, 1994). Infrastructure, including social and economic infrastructure, helps to build the conditions for economic growth and poverty reduction. In addition, the use of Labour Based Approaches (LBAs) to build and maintain infrastructures is cu...

Greening organizations through leaders’ influence on employees’ pro-environmental behaviors

Climate change is a serious global issue that poses many risks to environmental and human systems. Although human activity is cited as the main cause of climate change and organizations significantly contribute to climate change, research that investigates workplace pro-environmental behaviors remains scarce. We develop and test a model that links environmentally-specific transformational leade...

Development of Composite Indices to Measure the Adoption of Pro-Environmental Behaviours across Canadian Provinces

OBJECTIVE The adoption of pro-environmental behaviours reduces anthropogenic environmental impacts and subsequent human health effects. This study developed composite indices measuring adoption of pro-environmental behaviours at the household level in Canada. METHODS The 2007 Households and the Environment Survey conducted by Statistics Canada collected data on Canadian environmental behaviou...