'Green' on the ground but not in the air: Pro-environmental attitudes are related to household behaviours but not discretionary air travel.

ABSTRACT: The rise in greenhouse gas emissions from air travel could be reduced by individuals voluntarily abstaining from, or reducing, flights for leisure and recreational purposes. In theory, we might expect that people with pro-environmental value orientations and concerns about the risks of climate change, and those who engage in more pro-environmental household behaviours, would also be more likely to abstain from such voluntary air travel, or at least to fly less far. Analysis of two large datasets from the United Kingdom, weighted to be representative of the whole population, tested these associations. Using zero-inflated Poisson regression models, we found that, after accounting for potential confounders, there was no association between individuals' environmental attitudes, concern over cl

SUBMITTER: Alcock I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5373105 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature