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Title: | Applying behavioural strategies to promote household water-conservation strategies | Contributor(s): | Addo, Isaac (author); Thoms, Martin (supervisor) ; Parsons, Melissa (supervisor) | Publication Date: | 2018-06-25 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/215338 | Related Research Outputs: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/27375 | Abstract/Context: | Water is an essential resource to society. Conserving water is an intrinsic part of human behaviour. Traditional water conservation approaches typically adopt command-and-control strategies that are restrictive, and do not always achieve long term sustainable water conservation. Understanding the causal mechanisms of behaviour that result in changes to an individual’s attitudes, desires, and motivations offers an alternative approach to conserving water. The nature of sustainable water conservation is revealed in three behavioural mechanisms: capability - the capacity to engage in conservation activities; opportunity - external conditions that enable behaviour to occur; and, motivation -internal factors that energise or direct behaviour. | Publication Type: | Dataset | Fields of Research (FOR): | 160403 Social and Cultural Geography 050209 Natural Resource Management |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 440404 Political economy and social change 410406 Natural resource management |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO): | 970116 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society 970105 Expanding Knowledge in the Environmental Sciences |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 280114 Expanding knowledge in Indigenous studies 280123 Expanding knowledge in human society 280111 Expanding knowledge in the environmental sciences |
Keywords: | Water capacity Motivation Conservation opportunities Water conservation behaviour |
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