Assessing the awareness and willingness of European experts to reduce their carbon footprint in everyday consumption

dc.contributorAalto-yliopistofi
dc.contributorAalto Universityen
dc.contributor.authorKhanam, Tahaminaen_US
dc.contributor.authorRahman, Abulen_US
dc.contributor.authorXiaoqian, Xuen_US
dc.contributor.authorMola-Yudego, Blasen_US
dc.contributor.authorMoula, Md Munjur E.en_US
dc.contributor.authorPelkonen, Paavoen_US
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Built Environmenten
dc.contributor.groupauthorWater and Environmental Engineeringen
dc.contributor.organizationUniversity of Eastern Finlanden_US
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-07T08:48:18Z
dc.date.available2022-09-07T08:48:18Z
dc.date.issued2022-11en_US
dc.descriptionFunding Information: The authors would like to thank the Finnish Cultural Foundation for providing financial support as a grant to TK to accomplish this manuscript. The grant number was 00210526. Publisher Copyright: © 2022 The Authors
dc.description.abstractThis study investigates and evaluates the European expert's selection and conjoined degree of willingness to decrease the carbon footprint (WDC) of consuming products and services to mitigate climate change. The survey respondents were segregated into four European regions based on their nationality viz. Nordic, Baltic, and Eastern Europe (NBE), Central and South-eastern Europe (CSE), Western and southern Europe (WSE), and North-western Europe (NWE). The WDC are represented by four index categories viz. low willing, moderate willing, willing, and highly willing. The WDC indicators such as housing, food, energy, waste and transport were used to identify the trend and correlation, gender-specific density distribution, and overall regional comparison analysis. The trend and correlation analysis between energy vs. transport, waste vs. food, and a separate state of housing represented the current global carbon emission situation, where four overlapping clusters indicated the respondent's closest or similar selection at their consumption level. The gender-specific density suggests that the male respondent's average WDC for housing and food index ranges from moderate to highly willing. In contrast, the female average WDC for food, waste, energy and transport index ranges from moderate willing to willing and bimodal for other scenarios. Among the regional comparisons, NBE in housing (moderate willing to willing), CSE in food (willing to highly willing), WSE and CSE in energy and all the regions in waste management (willing to highly willing) presented better indices. In transport, Europe as a whole exhibits poor index. In case of WDC index, the regional comparison indicates that the CSE region exhibited better outcomes than the other regions, except for housing. The findings of this study will be beneficial for the common people, researchers, policymakers, and regulators to enrich their future thoughts and contributes to the development and improvement of the existing carbon reduction policies, especially in the transport sector.en
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dc.identifier.citationKhanam, T, Rahman, A, Xiaoqian, X, Mola-Yudego, B, Moula, M M E & Pelkonen, P 2022, ' Assessing the awareness and willingness of European experts to reduce their carbon footprint in everyday consumption ', Environmental Impact Assessment Review, vol. 97, 106889 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2022.106889en
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.eiar.2022.106889en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttps://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/handle/123456789/116584
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi:aalto-202209075394
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherElsevier Inc.
dc.relation.ispartofseriesENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REVIEWen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVolume 97en
dc.rightsopenAccessen
dc.subject.keywordCarbon footprinten_US
dc.subject.keywordClimate change mitigationen_US
dc.subject.keywordPrincipal component analysis (PCA)en_US
dc.subject.keywordWillingness to decrease carbon footprint index (WDC)en_US
dc.titleAssessing the awareness and willingness of European experts to reduce their carbon footprint in everyday consumptionen
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