Can Protection Motivation Theory predict pro-environmental behavior? Explaining the adoption of electric vehicles in the Netherlands     

《Global Environmental Change》2014

Scholars have proposed that the Protection Motivation Theory provides a valuable framework to explain pro-environmental choices, by employing a wide set of predictors, such as the costs and benefits of current (maladaptive) behavior as well as prospective adaptive behavior. However, no comprehensive empirical tests of the Protection Motivation Theory in the slow onset environmental risk domain have been published yet to our knowledge. This paper aims at closing this gap. We first conceptualized the Protection Motivation Theory for the use in this environmental domain. Next, we present results of a questionnaire study among a large representative sample of Dutch drivers that showed that the Protection Motivation Theory is a relevant theory for modeling different indicators of full electric vehicle adoption. Notably, all theoretical antecedents proved to be significant predictors of different adoption indicators. Respondents were particularly more likely to adopt an electric vehicle when they perceived the negative consequences caused by conventional vehicles as more severe, and when they expected electric vehicles to decrease these consequences. The most important barriers for electric vehicle adoption were perceived high monetary and non-monetary costs of electric vehicles, and benefits associated with the use of a conventional vehicle. Interestingly, we found that environmental risks are more prominent in predicting close adoption indicators; while energy security risks are more prominent in predicting distant adoption indicators. As expected, our findings suggest that both collective concerns and individual concerns predict different indicators of adoption. Individual concerns (in particular perceived costs of driving an electric vehicle) played a more prominent role when predicting close measures of adoption, while collective concerns (e.g., perceived severity of environmental and energy security risks) played a somewhat more prominent role when predicting distant measures of adoption. Implications for research and practice are provided.  相似文献   

Water on an urban planet: Urbanization and the reach of urban water infrastructure     

《Global Environmental Change》2014

Urban growth is increasing the demand for freshwater resources, yet surprisingly the water sources of the world's large cities have never been globally assessed, hampering efforts to assess the distribution and causes of urban water stress. We conducted the first global survey of the large cities’ water sources, and show that previous global hydrologic models that ignored urban water infrastructure significantly overestimated urban water stress. Large cities obtain 78 ± 3% of their water from surface sources, some of which are far away: cumulatively, large cities moved 504 billion liters a day (184 km³ yr⁻¹) a distance of 27,000 ± 3800 km, and the upstream contributing area of urban water sources is 41% of the global land surface. Despite this infrastructure, one in four cities, containing $4.8 ± 0.7 trillion in economic activity, remain water stressed due to geographical and financial limitations. The strategic management of these cities’ water sources is therefore important for the future of the global economy.  相似文献   

基于PCA和LOGIT模型的网络入侵检测方法   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

李蕊 《成都信息工程学院学报》2014,29(3):261-267

针对高维度网络数据进行多类攻击行为检测的需求,提出一种基于PCA和Logit模型的网络入侵检测方法,通过PCA对网络数据降维、简化数据集和多项式Logit模型实现对不同攻击行为的识别并判别其类型。实验结果表明,方法在网络入侵识别上具有较理想的效果。  相似文献   

粮食安全视角下中国历史气候变化影响与响应的过程与机理   总被引：12，自引：2，他引：10  

方修琦  郑景云  葛全胜 《地理科学》2014,(11):1299-1306

基于现代全球变化研究中关于脆弱性和粮食安全的概念,把历史时期的粮食安全分解为粮食生产安全、粮食供给安全、粮食消费安全3个层次,以气候变化直接影响粮食生产水平为起点,分析气候变化-农(牧)业收成-食物的人均供给量-饥民-社会稳定性的驱动-响应链中的关键过程,指出气候变化影响的驱动-响应关系不能归结为简单的因果关系,诸如耕地、人口、政策、外来势力都会对气候变化的影响起着放大或抑制的作用。  相似文献   

Use of the Stinkbug,Encosternum delegorguei (Hemiptera,Tessaratomidae), for Food and Income in South Africa     

Cathy M. Dzerefos  Ed T. F. Witkowski  Rob Toms 《社会与自然资源》2014,27(8):882-897

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The Role of Coffee in the Development of Southwest Ethiopia's Forests: Farmers' Strategies,Investor Speculation,and Certification Projects     

Samir El Ouaamari  Hubert Cochet 《社会与自然资源》2014,27(2):200-214

This article examines the role of coffee in the agriculture of southwest Ethiopian highlands, a context characterized by recent huge private coffee estate developments, coffee certification projects and smallholdings. The analysis shows that smallholder farmers prioritize staple crops, and allocate land and labor to coffee only once food production objectives have been reached. It also underscores the diversity of the local peasantry, often treated as a homogeneous group in development projects designed to boost farmers' income through coffee production. Based on this analysis, the article evaluates the effects of recent coffee-oriented development policies: state forest concessions for coffee investment, and two coffee certification projects (UTZ-Certified and Fair-Trade/Organic). Because they omit the differentiated farmers' strategies, these certification initiatives fail to improve local populations' livelihoods and accelerate incipient socioeconomic inequalities. Moreover, when applied to big private plantations, they participate in farmers' dispossession from critical forest resources essential to households' food self-sufficiency.  相似文献   

水权制度冲突与水资源安全   总被引：6，自引：1，他引：5  

宁立波  肖春娥 《地理与地理信息科学》2004,20(3):61-63,112

威胁我国水资源安全的根源在于社会转型期的水权制度冲突,主要表现在：水资源的权属冲突、管理体制冲突、取水许可制度与水权交易的冲突、收益分配权的冲突、“以人为本”原则与水资源承载力的冲突等。解决制度冲突的最佳的、也是唯一的途径是实施制度创新。  相似文献   

Geographies of folded life: How immunity reframes biosecurity     

《Geoforum》2014

Biosecurity, in broad terms, aims to reduce the impact and incidence of threats to life through regulatory means. For reasons we raise in this paper, such regulation can often lead to the specification of disease free processes within the food and farming industry, with biosecurity success measured in terms of the degree of compliance with and allegiance to modern farming practice. We counter this progressive narrative in three ways. First we draw on UK-based qualitative fieldwork with vets, farmers and pigs to demonstrate how biosecure farming and disease freedom are translated and qualified, in practice, to pathogen free, pathogen management and ultimately to configuring health through immunity management. Second, these translations demonstrate how building health is dependent on spatial and microbiological diversity rather than uniformity. Crucially, health involves patch-work and situated knowledge practices that are under threat within an industry increasingly marked by control and homogeneity. Third, in conceptual terms, we argue that while pig farming is organised through both biosecurity and a biopolitical regulation of life, immunity opens up political space for exploring an alternative politics of life, one where farmers and others are not so much made responsible for disease prevention, but make valued contributions to understandings of animal health and food security.  相似文献   

我国硫资源供需状况及需求预测     

赵明  陈春琳  高鹏  孙小红 《化工矿产地质》2014,36(3):173-181

全球硫资源特征及国内硫资源供需现状表明,国内硫资源贫乏,硫资源生产与消费逐年增加,尤其磷肥生产对硫资源的需求越来越迫切,预计到2020~2025年磷肥用硫量将达到峰值1620万t左右,不包括出口磷肥耗硫量。因此,加强硫资源的综合利用、加大硫铁矿找矿及矿山设计是非常有必要的。  相似文献   

褐藻多酚的毒理学研究   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

娄清香  严小军 《海洋科学》2000,24(9):53-55

目目前前的的研研究究普普遍遍认认为为 ,,人人体体老老化化导导致致癌癌症症、、心心脏脏病病、、脑脑中中风风等等疾疾病病主主要要是是由由于于自自由由基基未未能能得得到到有有效效清清除除造造成成的的。。因因此此 ,,如如果果食食物物中中含含有有丰丰富富的的抗抗氧氧化化物物质质 ,,就就具具有有益益寿寿延延年年的的作作用用 ,,在在某某种种程程度度上上 ,,可可以以将将现现代代抗抗氧氧化化与与抗抗自自由由基基理理论论看看作作““药药食食同同源源””的的分分子子水水平平解解释释。。植植物物含含有有丰丰富富的的自自由由…  相似文献