Environmental issues and human behaviour in low-income areas in the UK

Existing evidence showed that:- local environmental problems are widespread but worse in low-income areas- there is little evidence that wider environmental concerns are less in low-incomecommunities- residents in low-income areas often face different barriers and incentives for action fromthose in higher income areas- local environmental neglect can have much wider impacts, contributing to area declineand abandonment- environmental behaviour change is limited by unclear solutions and low political profile,but models of human behaviour can help in understanding how to support change[...]

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Year of publication:	2005-11-01
Authors:	Power, Anne T. ; Elster, Jake
Institutions:	London School of Economics and Political Science
Published in:	London School of Economics and Political Science - CASE Reports Anne Power and Jake Elster
Subject:	Verhalten \| optimising behavior \| Umweltveränderung \| environmental change \| changement de l’environnement \| Schadstoffemission \| Umweltethik \| Einkommen \| income

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Non-technical Summary
1. Background
2. Objectives
3. Methods
- Overview of existing evidence
- Low-income areas study
- In our interviews with local managers
- Think-tank event
- Analysis
- Ethical considerations
4. Results
A) Overview of existing evidence
- Environmental issues in low-income areas – environmental inequality
- Wider environmental issues
- Environmental actions in the UK
- Attitudes, concerns and actions in low-income communities
- How local environmental problems interact with global environmental problems
- Knowledge about human behaviour and influencing how people act
B) Results from our focus groups study
- Local environmental problems
- Wider environmental problems
- Responsibility for environmental problems
- Environmental action
- What people think government should be doing to help
- The relationship between local and global problems
C) Findings from local managers
5. Conclusions
6. Impacts
7. Future research
8. References
9. Annexes

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