Attitudes toward Environment Issues and Behavioral Intentions towards Reducing Carbon Footprints: An Empirical Study of Fiji
- DOI
- 10.2991/ssemse-15.2015.336How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Attitudes; Behavioral Intentions; Sustainability; Environment; Carbon footprints; Awareness
- Abstract
Global warming is a worldwide issue but it is developing island countries like Fiji and Kiribati who suffer first-hand impacts. This study seeks to study attitudes of educated Fijians towards environmental issues particularly Tourism and their intentional behaviour in reducing these impacts by minimizing their carbon footprints. The attitudes and behavioral intentions are ranked in averages to show the most to least important issues and intentions. It concludes that Tourism is not regarded as a high impact environment issue because of either lack of awareness or an intentional lack of awareness. Awareness campaigns in Fiji are generic in nature as most mentioned behaviours were unspecific meaning most Fijians know what to do but do not how to. The two aspects acting as Fijian peoples’ contribution towards a Sustainable Future of Fiji.
- Copyright
- © 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - N. S. Prasad AU - A. R. Asa AU - X. Hongyi PY - 2015/11 DA - 2015/11 TI - Attitudes toward Environment Issues and Behavioral Intentions towards Reducing Carbon Footprints: An Empirical Study of Fiji BT - Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Social Science, Education Management and Sports Education PB - Atlantis Press SP - 1306 EP - 1310 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/ssemse-15.2015.336 DO - 10.2991/ssemse-15.2015.336 ID - Prasad2015/11 ER -