TY - JOUR
T1 - Australian residents' attitudes toward pro-environmental behaviour and climate change impacts on the Great Barrier Reef
AU - van Riper, Carena J.
AU - Kyle, Gerard T.
AU - Sutton, Stephen G.
AU - Yoon, Jee In
AU - Tobin, Renae C.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank Roger Beeden, Ingrid van Putten and Antasia Azure from the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority for their assistance throughout this project. Thanks are due to Lucia Papa and Manisha Mehta at Roy Morgan Research for their assistance with data collection. Special thanks to all of the respondents who gave their time to participate in the survey. This study was funded jointly by grants from the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and the Australian Government’s Marine and Tropical Sciences Research Facility to SGS.
PY - 2013/5
Y1 - 2013/5
N2 - Climate changeand associated environmental impacts are increasingly important issues. Effective communication with residents of coastal communities is critical to mitigate and adapt to changing conditions; however, this can be a challenging feat without an understanding of attitudes toward pro-environmental behaviour. Drawing on three dimensions of the Theory of Planned Behaviour, this paper: (1) explores the Australian public's perceptions of climate change impacts on the Great Barrier Reef; (2) segments respondents into homogenous groups based on their environmental attitudes; and (3) profiles the emergent segments using managerially-relevant indicators. Study findings illustrate that respondents can be organised into five distinct segments according to their attitudes toward pro-environmental behaviour that could potentially stem climate change-related impacts. These segments perceive a variety of threats to the health of the Great Barrier Reef ecosystem, underestimate the performance of behaviours that help to mitigate impacts and face a variety of internal and external constraints on behavioural engagement.
AB - Climate changeand associated environmental impacts are increasingly important issues. Effective communication with residents of coastal communities is critical to mitigate and adapt to changing conditions; however, this can be a challenging feat without an understanding of attitudes toward pro-environmental behaviour. Drawing on three dimensions of the Theory of Planned Behaviour, this paper: (1) explores the Australian public's perceptions of climate change impacts on the Great Barrier Reef; (2) segments respondents into homogenous groups based on their environmental attitudes; and (3) profiles the emergent segments using managerially-relevant indicators. Study findings illustrate that respondents can be organised into five distinct segments according to their attitudes toward pro-environmental behaviour that could potentially stem climate change-related impacts. These segments perceive a variety of threats to the health of the Great Barrier Reef ecosystem, underestimate the performance of behaviours that help to mitigate impacts and face a variety of internal and external constraints on behavioural engagement.
KW - environmental attitudes
KW - marine protected areas
KW - perceptions of climate change
KW - theory of planned behaviour
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U2 - 10.1080/09640568.2012.688650
DO - 10.1080/09640568.2012.688650
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84876330880
SN - 0964-0568
VL - 56
SP - 494
EP - 511
JO - Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
JF - Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
IS - 4
ER -