Self-interest versus collective action: understanding cross-class environmental perception, knowledge and behavior in Brazil

This paper aims to seek evidence of environmentalism among the poor by asking two questions: i) is environmental perception, knowledge and behavior positively influenced by thesocioeconomic status and objective environmental conditions of individuals?; ii) Does the nature of behavior (collective ver...

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Autores principales:	Gilvan RAMALHO-GUEDES, Roberto LUIZ-DO-CARMO
Formato:	Artículo científico
Publicado:	Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México 2013
Materias:	Demografía Environmental perception environmental behavior Brazil grade of membership environmentalism
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Aporte de:	Red de Bibliotecas Virtuales de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO) de Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales

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spellingShingle	Demografía Environmental perception environmental behavior Brazil grade of membership environmentalism Gilvan RAMALHO-GUEDES Roberto LUIZ-DO-CARMO Self-interest versus collective action: understanding cross-class environmental perception, knowledge and behavior in Brazil
topic_facet	Demografía Environmental perception environmental behavior Brazil grade of membership environmentalism
description	This paper aims to seek evidence of environmentalism among the poor by asking two questions: i) is environmental perception, knowledge and behavior positively influenced by thesocioeconomic status and objective environmental conditions of individuals?; ii) Does the nature of behavior (collective versus private) influence pro-environmental actions among the poor? Using novel household-level data representative of two metropolitan regions in the State of São Paulo, Brazil, we measure and describe perceptions and behavior about several environmental issues using the Grade of Membership (GoM) technique and fixed-effect logistic regression. Based on our findings, we argue that past evidence on low levels of pro-environmental behavior in low-income settings may reflect the inability of differentiating private (individual) from public (collective) environmental behavior. We address these limitations by including questions about actual and intended environmental behavior that explicitly differentiates individual from collective actions. This difference is key to understanding how low-income individuals overcome budget constraints, reducing the unitary cost of action.
format	Artículo científico Artículo científico
author	Gilvan RAMALHO-GUEDES Roberto LUIZ-DO-CARMO
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title	Self-interest versus collective action: understanding cross-class environmental perception, knowledge and behavior in Brazil
title_short	Self-interest versus collective action: understanding cross-class environmental perception, knowledge and behavior in Brazil
title_full	Self-interest versus collective action: understanding cross-class environmental perception, knowledge and behavior in Brazil
title_fullStr	Self-interest versus collective action: understanding cross-class environmental perception, knowledge and behavior in Brazil
title_full_unstemmed	Self-interest versus collective action: understanding cross-class environmental perception, knowledge and behavior in Brazil
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publisher	Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México
publishDate	2013
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Self-interest versus collective action: understanding cross-class environmental perception, knowledge and behavior in Brazil

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