TY  - JOUR
AU  - Zsóka, Ágnes
AU  - Marjainé Szerényi, Zsuzsanna
AU  - Széchy, Anna Zsófia
AU  - Kocsis, Tamás
TI  - Greening due to environmental education? Environmental knowledge, attitudes, consumer behavior and everyday pro-environmental activities of Hungarian high school and university students
JF  - JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
J2  - J CLEAN PROD
VL  - 48
PY  - 2013
SP  - 126
EP  - 138
PG  - 13
SN  - 0959-6526
DO  - 10.1016/j.jclepro.2012.11.030
UR  - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/2268168
ID  - 2268168
N1  - N1 Funding Details: EEA, European Environment Agency
AB  - Environmental education is assumed to have a significant influence on the environmental awareness, everyday lifestyles and consumer behavior of students. Several higher education institutions have recently recognized the importance of integrating sustainability issues into education to make this impact focused and explicit. This paper explores the relationship strength between environmental education and environmental knowledge, attitudes and reported actual behavior of university and high school students, providing a comparative questionnaire survey analysis which is unique in the literature. The results show a strong correlation between the intensity of environmental education and the environmental knowledge of students. This is partly due to the environmental education itself and partly due to the higher intrinsic motivation of committed students who voluntarily participate in environmental education, primarily at university level. The focus of the environmental education appears to be important in shaping attitudes about sustainable consumption. Addressing the issue of consumerism in environmental education clearly increases awareness of the need for consumption-related lifestyle changes. Based on Multidimensional Scaling methodology, the interdependence of several influencing variables is explored and illustrated graphically. Respondents are classified into five clusters - hedonist, techno-optimist, active environmentalist, familiar and careless - according to their environmental knowledge, attitudes, consumer behavior and everyday environmental awareness. Consistencies and inconsistencies in behavior are then identified in order to promote the creation of more effective educational instruments for supporting sustainable consumption and lifestyles. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
LA  - English
DB  - MTMT
ER  - 

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Málovics, György
AU  - Csigéné Nagypál, Noémi
AU  - Kraus, S
TI  - The role of Corporate Social Responsibility in strong sustainability
JF  - JOURNAL OF SOCIO-ECONOMICS
J2  - J SOCIO-ECON
VL  - 37
PY  - 2008
IS  - 3
SP  - 907
EP  - 918
PG  - 12
SN  - 1053-5357
DO  - 10.1016/j.socec.2006.12.061
UR  - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/2686669
ID  - 2686669
AB  - The aim of this paper is to analyze to what extent corporate social responsibility (CSR) contributes to strong sustainability, i.e. to what extent the use of natural resources and the environment is possible, given the current level of economic activity. We therefore examine responsibilities that corporations should take in order to fulfil the requirements of strong sustainability. Based on current CSR practices and theory as well as on businesses motivations regarding environmental and social investments, we will introduce the role of corporations in influencing consumption patterns. Furthermore, we will attempt to answer to what extent responsible corporate behaviour is determined by the current economic system.
LA  - English
DB  - MTMT
ER  -