Investigating Sustainable Consumption Behavior Vis-à-vis Islamic Values: A systematic review

This paper aims to develop a rigorous, systematic exploration of the literature investigating the nexus between sustainable consumption behavior and Islamic values and identify the types of respondents used in the previous studies. Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) is used to structure the research field. This paper identified eight articles that report empirical evidence of the proposed research topic. Prior studies focused on three respondents: students, consumers in major cities, and consumers in the clothing industry. The assemblage of reviewed research papers is necessary for academia and government to achieve the shared prosperity vision by 2030. Keywords: Sustainable consumption behavior; Islamic Values; Religiosity; Muslim consumers eISSN: 2398-4287 © 2022. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC-BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under the responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians/Africans/Arabians), and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v7i21.347

Nursing students' attitudes towards climate change and sustainability: A cross-sectional multisite study

Background: Education is a social tipping intervention necessary for stabilising the earth's climate by 2050. Integrating sustainable healthcare into healthcare professions curricula is a key action to raise awareness. Objectives: This study aimed to: i) investigate nursing students' attitudes towards and awareness of climate change and sustainability issues and its inclusion in nurse education, ii) explore differences across a range of countries, and iii) compare attitudes in 2019 with those of a similar sample in 2014. Design: A cross-sectional multicentre study. Data were collected through the Sustainability Attitudes in Nursing Survey (SANS_2) questionnaire. Settings: Seven different universities and schools of nursing in five countries (UK, Spain, Germany, Sweden, and Australia). Participants: A convenience sample of first-year undergraduate nursing students. Methods: The SANS_2 questionnaire was self-administered by nursing students at the seven participating universities at the start of their undergraduate degree, between September 2019 and February 2020. Results: Participants from all seven universities (N = 846) consistently showed awareness and held positive attitudes towards the inclusion of climate change and sustainability issues in the nursing curriculum (M = 5.472; SD: 1.05; min-max 1–6). The relevance of climate change and sustainability to nursing were the highest scored items. Esslingen-Tübingen students scored the highest in the ‘inclusion of climate change and sustainability in the nursing curricula’. Students at all universities applied the principles of sustainability to a significant extent at home. Nursing students' attitudes towards climate change and sustainability showed significantly higher values in 2019 (Universities of Plymouth, Brighton, Esslingen-Tübingen, Jaen, Murcia, Dalarna, and Queensland) than in 2014 (universities of Plymouth, Jaen, Esslingen, and Switzerland). Conclusions: Nursing students have increasingly positive attitudes towards the inclusion of sustainability and climate change in their nursing curriculum. They also recognise the importance of education regarding sustainability and the impact of climate change on health, supporting formal preparation for environmental literacy. It is time to act on this positive trend in nursing students' attitudes by integrating these competencies into nursing curricula.</p

Norm-based Governance for a New Era: Lessons from Climate Change and COVID-19

The world has surpassed three million deaths from COVID-19, and faces potentially catastrophic tipping points in the global climate system. Despite the urgency, governments have struggled to address either problem. In this paper, we argue that COVID-19 and anthropogenic climate change (ACC) are critical examples of an emerging type of governance challenge: severe collective action problems that require significant individual behavior change under conditions of hyper- partisanship and scientific misinformation. Building on foundational political science work demonstrating the potential for norms (or informal rules of behavior) to solve collective action problems, we analyze more recent work on norms from neighboring disciplines to offer novel recommendations for more difficult challenges like COVID-19 and ACC. Key insights include more attention to (1) norm-based messaging strategies that appeal to individuals across the ideological spectrum or that reframe collective action as consistent with resistant subgroups’ pre-existing values, (2) messages that emphasize both the prevalence and the social desirability of individual behaviors required to address these challenges, (3) careful use of public policies and incentives that make individual behavior change easier without threatening norm internalization, and (4) greater attention to epistemic norms governing trust in different information sources. We conclude by pointing out that COVID-19 and climate change are likely harbingers of other polarized collective action problems that governments will face in the future. By connecting work on norms and political governance with a broader, interdisciplinary literature on norm psychology, motivation, and behavior change, we aim to improve the ability of political scientists and policy makers to respond to these and future collective action challenges

Towards sustainable transformation: Research priorities in climate change and biodiversity

Publication metadata By exploring key research gaps and challenges in climate change and biodiversity, this report offers insights into promoting transformative change through research and innovation. Developed through an open and participatory approach, the report builds on the extensive international network of researchers and innovators at Future Earth and beyond. It investigates research needs around topics such as planetary health, societal values, governance, the role of policy instruments, emerging tools, and new ways to work across sectors to implement and drive transformations. Through this transdisciplinary approach, the authors highlight the importance of innovative and inclusive methodologies to tackle sustainability challenges and advocate for collaborative funding initiatives to support these endeavours. The outcomes of this research agenda are crucial in directing and prioritising research funding, emphasising the imperative of systems change in addressing climate change and biodiversity loss

Social tipping dynamics for stabilizing Earth's climate by 2050

Safely achieving the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement requires a worldwide transformation to carbon-neutral societies within the next 30 y. Accelerated technological progress and policy implementations are required to deliver emissions reductions at rates sufficiently fast to avoid crossing dangerous tipping points in the Earth's climate system. Here, we discuss and evaluate the potential of social tipping interventions (STIs) that can activate contagious processes of rapidly spreading technologies, behaviors, social norms, and structural reorganization within their functional domains that we refer to as social tipping elements (STEs). STEs are subdomains of the planetary socioeconomic system where the required disruptive change may take place and lead to a sufficiently fast reduction in anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. The results are based on online expert elicitation, a subsequent expert workshop, and a literature review. The STIs that could trigger the tipping of STE subsystems include 1) removing fossil-fuel subsidies and incentivizing decentralized energy generation (STE1, energy production and storage systems), 2) building carbon-neutral cities (STE2, human settlements), 3) divesting from assets linked to fossil fuels (STE3, financial markets), 4) revealing the moral implications of fossil fuels (STE4, norms and value systems), 5) strengthening climate education and engagement (STE5, education system), and 6) disclosing information on greenhouse gas emissions (STE6, information feedbacks). Our research reveals important areas of focus for larger-scale empirical and modeling efforts to better understand the potentials of harnessing social tipping dynamics for climate change mitigation

Social tipping dynamics for stabilizing Earth's climate by 2050

Safely achieving the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement requires a worldwide transformation to carbon-neutral societies within the next 30 y. Accelerated technological progress and policy implementations are required to deliver emissions reductions at rates sufficiently fast to avoid crossing dangerous tipping points in the Earth's climate system. Here, we discuss and evaluate the potential of social tipping interventions (STIs) that can activate contagious processes of rapidly spreading technologies, behaviors, social norms, and structural reorganization within their functional domains that we refer to as social tipping elements (STE5). STE5 are subdomains of the planetary socioeconomic system where the required disruptive change may take place and lead to a sufficiently fast reduction in anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. The results are based on online expert elicitation, a subsequent expert workshop, and a literature review. The STIs that could trigger the tipping of STE subsystems include 1) removing fossil-fuel subsidies and incentivizing decentralized energy generation (STE1, energy production and storage systems), 2) building carbon-neutral cities (STE2, human settlements), 3) divesting from assets linked to fossil fuels (STE3, financial markets), 4) revealing the moral implications of fossil fuels (STE4, norms and value systems), 5) strengthening climate education and engagement (STE5, education system), and 6) disclosing information on greenhouse gas emissions (STE6, information feedbacks). Our research reveals important areas of focus for larger-scale empirical and modeling efforts to better understand the potentials of harnessing social tipping dynamics for climate change mitigation

Support for sustainable welfare? : A study of public attitudes related to an eco-social agenda among Swedish residents

This thesis explores Swedish residents’ attitudes related to an eco-social agenda from a sustainable welfare perspective. It investigates public support for general policy goals related to an eco-social agenda as well as for specific eco-social policies. The thesis also analyses the significance of the individuals’ socioeconomic characteristics, their values, and the context they are situated in relation to the attitudes they express. It also explores what kind of political activities they are involved in (if at all) to prevent climate change and promote societal change, and how various modes of political action are associated with the attitudes. This kind of study is crucial in times of imperative social-ecological transformations where the strive towards sustainable welfare and the realising of an eco-social agenda can be seen as key in a just and climate-neutral society. Public support and engagement in terms of both attitudes and political action are central components in societal transformations in democratic societies. The thesis is a compilation thesis based on four research articles. It follows a quantitative research design by analysing data from an original cross-sectional survey study by the means of, for example, regression and multiple correspondence analyses. The survey study followed a stratified random sampling strategy targeting residents living in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö, and Sweden at large. The results show that quite a substantial share of Swedish residents express attitudes consistent with an eco-social agenda from a sustainable welfare perspective, even though comparatively large shares of the respondents also express sceptical attitudes. This suggests that the respondents tend to be rather divided in their attitudes, a finding that seemed to be enhanced when the individual-level and contextual-level factors that were associated with the attitudes were taken into account. The individual-level and contextual-level factors – which were categorised in the four analytical concepts of homo economicus, homo sociologicus, homo locus and homo politicus – are in various ways and degrees associated with the attitudes. One factor, i.e., political ideology, stand out in the sense that it is significantly and strongly associated with the attitudes both when measured in terms of support for general policy goals and for specific eco-social policies. The results thus point towards a political polarisation in attitudes related to an eco-social agenda. Consequently, the thesis shows that there are obstacles that need to be overcome in the strive towards sustainable welfare, for example in terms of bridging attitudinal gaps and changing the present political agenda. This thesis contributes, in general, to research and literature that focus on the intersection between climate change and social policy, and in particular to the newly emergent research that explores the intersection between social welfare and environmental attitudes