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This study evaluates people’s preferences regarding the proximity of their residence to agricultural urban green infrastructure (UGI), such as agricultural land and satoyama, and discusses the availability of these types of land as UGI. UGI is vital for reducing the negative environmental impacts of urban areas, as these impacts are too large to ignore. In this study, we conducted an online survey and a choice experiment to investigate people’s perceptions regarding the proximity of their residence to agricultural UGI (AUGI). The respondents of the choice experiment were 802 inhabitants of Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, which has rich agricultural resources. To examine explicitly the spatial autocorrelation of people’s preferences, in this study, we used the spatial econometrics method. The main empirical findings are that people prefer agricultural land far away from their residence—more than 1000 m, not within 1000 m—which reflects the not-in-my-backyard phenomenon. Meanwhile, people’s preferences regarding proximity to satoyama are complicated and their preferences are positively spatially autocorrelated. The results indicate that policymakers and urban planners should manage and provide AUGI far away from residential areas; otherwise, they must address people’s avoidance of neighboring AUGI.
Shinsuke Kyoi. People’s Avoidance of Neighboring Agricultural Urban Green Infrastructure: Evidence from a Choice Experiment. Sustainability 2021, 13, 6930 .
AMA StyleShinsuke Kyoi. People’s Avoidance of Neighboring Agricultural Urban Green Infrastructure: Evidence from a Choice Experiment. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (12):6930.
Chicago/Turabian StyleShinsuke Kyoi. 2021. "People’s Avoidance of Neighboring Agricultural Urban Green Infrastructure: Evidence from a Choice Experiment." Sustainability 13, no. 12: 6930.
The purpose of this study is to identify factors that can change the environmental friendliness of individuals in the context of climate change issues in terms of values, beliefs, controllability, concern, attitude, intention, and behavior through a survey experiment, and to test the hypothesis that providing information about the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions attributable to an individual with its threshold value motivates him/her to reduce that amount using statistical analyses (the Mann–Whitney test) and multivariate regressions (the ordered logit model). It is crucial to change the behavior of individuals as well as organizations to reduce the emissions of CO2 for solving climate change issues, because the aggregate amount of individual CO2 emissions is too large to ignore. We conducted a survey experiment to detect factors affecting the environmental friendliness of individuals. Subjects of the experiment were 102 students at Shiga University in Japan. They were randomly provided with communication opportunities, information about individual or group CO2 emissions, and information about their threshold value. The finding is that provision of information about the amount of individual and group CO2 emissions may be able to improve that person’s environmental friendliness in terms of values, beliefs, concern, attitude, intention, and behavior.
Hideki Yamashita; Shinsuke Kyoi; Koichiro Mori. Does Information about Personal Emissions of Carbon Dioxide Improve Individual Environmental Friendliness? A Survey Experiment. Sustainability 2021, 13, 2284 .
AMA StyleHideki Yamashita, Shinsuke Kyoi, Koichiro Mori. Does Information about Personal Emissions of Carbon Dioxide Improve Individual Environmental Friendliness? A Survey Experiment. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (4):2284.
Chicago/Turabian StyleHideki Yamashita; Shinsuke Kyoi; Koichiro Mori. 2021. "Does Information about Personal Emissions of Carbon Dioxide Improve Individual Environmental Friendliness? A Survey Experiment." Sustainability 13, no. 4: 2284.