What’s the problem? River management, education and public beliefs.
This paper invokes the theory of planned behavior (TPB) as a diagnostic tool to explain an existing public education program’s limited success at improving river water quality in the City of Perth, Western Australia. A reflective, client-driven research approach was used. A facilitated expert worksh...
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| author | Hughes, Michael Weiler, B. Curtis, J. |
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| description | This paper invokes the theory of planned behavior (TPB) as a diagnostic tool to explain an existing public education program’s limited success at improving river water quality in the City of Perth, Western Australia. A reflective, client-driven research approach was used. A facilitated expert workshop defined an environmental problem (excess nutrients leaving gardens and entering waterways) and a desired behavior (residents purchasing environmentally sensitive fertilizer) to address the problem. A TPB-based belief elicitation survey captured respondents’ beliefs regarding the desired behavior. The findings suggest respondents were aware of the links between purchasing environmentally sensitive fertilizer and river water quality. However, this behavior is compromised by the challenges in identifying appropriate products, product quality concerns and cost. Viewing the content of a public education program through the lens of the TPB reveals insights into how and why the program fell short in achieving one of its key behavioral change goals. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-326232017-09-13T15:56:20Z What’s the problem? River management, education and public beliefs. Hughes, Michael Weiler, B. Curtis, J. river management water quality human behavior in the environment urban water catchment theory of planned behavior This paper invokes the theory of planned behavior (TPB) as a diagnostic tool to explain an existing public education program’s limited success at improving river water quality in the City of Perth, Western Australia. A reflective, client-driven research approach was used. A facilitated expert workshop defined an environmental problem (excess nutrients leaving gardens and entering waterways) and a desired behavior (residents purchasing environmentally sensitive fertilizer) to address the problem. A TPB-based belief elicitation survey captured respondents’ beliefs regarding the desired behavior. The findings suggest respondents were aware of the links between purchasing environmentally sensitive fertilizer and river water quality. However, this behavior is compromised by the challenges in identifying appropriate products, product quality concerns and cost. Viewing the content of a public education program through the lens of the TPB reveals insights into how and why the program fell short in achieving one of its key behavioral change goals. 2012 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/32623 10.1007/s13280-012-0282-5 Springer fulltext |
| spellingShingle | river management water quality human behavior in the environment urban water catchment theory of planned behavior Hughes, Michael Weiler, B. Curtis, J. What’s the problem? River management, education and public beliefs. |
| title | What’s the problem? River management, education and public beliefs. |
| title_full | What’s the problem? River management, education and public beliefs. |
| title_fullStr | What’s the problem? River management, education and public beliefs. |
| title_full_unstemmed | What’s the problem? River management, education and public beliefs. |
| title_short | What’s the problem? River management, education and public beliefs. |
| title_sort | what’s the problem? river management, education and public beliefs. |
| topic | river management water quality human behavior in the environment urban water catchment theory of planned behavior |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/32623 |