As the world becomes increasingly interconnected, exposure to global cultures affords individuals opportunities to develop global identities. In two studies, we examine the antecedents and outcomes of identifying with a superordinate identity--global citizen. Global citizenship is defined as awareness, caring, and embracing cultural diversity while promoting social justice and sustainability, c...

To effectively limit climate change, we need people to both behave pro-environmentally and support environmental policy. However, there are conflicting results about whether likely do these actions. Extending previous research, propose that policy because expressions of intrinsic pro-environmental motivation. We tested our reasoning in three studies which vary the order measuring behaviour supp...

Highlights Using a new concept of “a plate food” (aPoF), symbol meaningful chemical reaction products, this article addresses the Grade 10 students’ chemistry anxiety in Indonesia. In line with ecological citizenship and pro-environmental behavior perspectives, aPoF is conceptualized based on environmental concerns such as food sustainability, food-critical consciousness, earth's carrying capac...

This report presents a review of the literature that underpins the different pathways through which the transition between two pro-environmental behaviours can occur. Its primary aim is to inform the theoretical part of a 2012 linkage project grant application for the Australian Research Council to be submitted by BehaviourWorks Australia. A special emphasis is on research where interventions h...

1 In 1972, the then Prime Minister of India, Mrs. Indira Gandhi emphasized, at the UN Conference on Human Environment at Stockholm, that the removal of poverty is an integral part of the goal of an environmental strategy for the world. The concepts of interrelatedness, of a shared planet, of global citizenship, and of ‘spaceship earth’ cannot be restricted to environmental issues alone. They ap...

Sustainable consumption is gaining in currency as a new environmental policy objective. This paper presents new research findings from a mixed-method empirical study of a local organic food network to interrogate the theories of both sustainable consumption and ecological citizenship. It describes a mainstream policy model of sustainable consumption, and contrasts this with an alternative model...