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Pro-environmental Behavior among a Sample of Rural People in Gharbia Governorate

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Agriculture and rural economy interactions

Abstract

Human environmental behavior is a result of human-environment interaction. This interaction faces a wide variety of environmental problems. Solving these problems require understanding the environmental behavior. This research aimed to develop and test a causal model of pro-environmental behavior of rural people. The hypothesised causal model consists of 15 exogenous and endogenous variables, which are traditional values, altruism and biosphere values, self-interest values, openness to change values, age, education level, family size, housing level, monthly family income, the new ecological paradigm, awareness of the consequences of environmental problems, personal normative beliefs, environmental citizenship, willingness to sacrifice economically for the environment and environmental behavior of the consumer. Data were collected from a sample of 390 male and female of household's heads in Gharbia Governorate through personal interviews. Results showed that the most important results indicated that the main variables that have a unique significant effect in explaining the variance in the causal model and the largest in terms of direct causal effect in the causal model are openness to change values; traditional values; personal normative beliefs; housing level and family size variables. The findings of this research to understanding pro-environmental behavior of rural people are discussed.

DOI

10.21608/asejaiqjsae.2022.260100

Keywords

Causal Model, Egypt, Environmentally significant behavior, Sustainable rural development, Value-Belief-Norm Theory (VBN)

Authors

First Name

Mohammed

Last Name

Ebad-Allah

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Affiliation

Associate Professor of Rural Sociology- Faculty of Agriculture-Tanta University

Email

mohammed.ebadallah@agr.tanta.edu.eg

City

Tanta

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Volume

43

Article Issue

3

Related Issue

35754

Issue Date

2022-09-01

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2022-08-10

Publish Date

2022-09-01

Page Start

1,055

Page End

1,087

Print ISSN

1110-0176

Online ISSN

2536-9784

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https://asejaiqjsae.journals.ekb.eg/article_260100.html

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Original Article

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53

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Publication Title

Alexandria Science Exchange Journal

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https://asejaiqjsae.journals.ekb.eg/

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Pro-environmental Behavior among a Sample of Rural People in Gharbia Governorate

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22 Jan 2023