The spatial distribution of carbon footprints and engagement in pro-climate behaviors – Trends across urban-rural gradients in the nordics

IF 3.7 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Cleaner and Responsible Consumption Pub Date : 2023-10-13 DOI:10.1016/j.clrc.2023.100139
Henna Anttonen , Antti Kinnunen , Jukka Heinonen , Juudit Ottelin , Seppo Junnila
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Climate change mitigation to the 1.5 °C calls for significant and extensive climate actions. Nordic countries are showing high engagement to climate change mitigation while the consumption and lifestyle-based carbon footprints are among the global highest. Majority of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are connected to household consumption where various behavioral changes have been presented in order to reduce the personal carbon footprints. Previous research has shown how behaviors are connected to the living environment and urban structure, which have shown having an impact in forming variations in our lifestyles and behavioral patterns. In this study, with a survey dataset of ∼8000 respondents across the five Nordic countries, the engagement of respondents to different climate and carbon mitigation actions were analyzed and linked to their calculated carbon footprints. Three types of behavioral clusters were found among the respondents, one presenting conscious pro-climate behavior, one relating to frugality behavior, and one cluster related to self-sufficient behavior. The pro-climate behavioral intentions were present more in urbanized areas together with high climate motivation, whereas frugality behavior was level across the urban gradient, and finally respondents from less urbanized areas emphasized self-sufficient behavior. The stated behavioral intentions of the respondents were in contrast to their carbon footprints. Carbon footprints related to leisure consumption were highest in the urban regions and everyday consumption related footprints in the rural regions. Interestingly, only frugality behavior was associated with lower carbon footprints both in everyday and leisure consumption categories, whereas climate conscious behavior was positively related to leisure consumption footprint but negatively related to everyday consumption. The findings emphasize the variation of lifestyles based on different actions in different urban forms where the engagement to climate change mitigation presents differently. The results underline the importance of understanding the role that the built environment plays in being linked to the behavioral patterns and the need to increase the knowledge of the climate impacts of behavioral choices.

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碳足迹的空间分布和亲气候行为的参与——北欧城乡梯度的趋势
将气候变化减缓到1.5°C需要采取重大而广泛的气候行动。北欧国家在缓解气候变化方面表现出高度参与,而基于消费和生活方式的碳足迹是全球最高的。全球温室气体排放的大部分与家庭消费有关,为了减少个人碳足迹,家庭消费出现了各种行为变化。先前的研究表明,行为是如何与生活环境和城市结构联系在一起的,这对我们的生活方式和行为模式的变化产生了影响。在这项研究中,利用五个北欧国家约8000名受访者的调查数据集,分析了受访者参与不同气候和碳减排行动的情况,并将其与计算的碳足迹联系起来。在受访者中发现了三种类型的行为集群,一种表现为有意识的亲气候行为,一种与节俭行为有关,另一种与自给自足行为有关。亲气候的行为意图更多地出现在城市化地区,同时具有较高的气候动机,而节俭行为在整个城市梯度中是水平的,最终来自城市化程度较低地区的受访者强调自给自足的行为。受访者陈述的行为意图与他们的碳足迹形成对比。与休闲消费相关的碳足迹在城市地区最高,与日常消费相关的足迹在农村地区最高。有趣的是,在日常和休闲消费类别中,只有节俭行为与较低的碳足迹相关,而气候意识行为与休闲消费足迹呈正相关,但与日常消费负相关。研究结果强调了不同城市形式中基于不同行动的生活方式的变化,在这些城市形式中,对气候变化缓解的参与表现不同。研究结果强调了理解建筑环境在与行为模式联系中所起作用的重要性,以及增加对行为选择对气候影响的认识的必要性。
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Cleaner and Responsible Consumption
Cleaner and Responsible Consumption Social Sciences-Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
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