Choosing not to have children can be considered a pro-environmental behaviour with a very
high environmental impact. However, such impact calculations have been criticised for …

Over the past decade, the choice of living childfree has increasingly been viewed as a pro-
environmental behaviour. Recent research has investigated statistical relations between …

Calculating the ecological impact of different types of proenvironmental behavior has shown
that having one child less is the behavior with the largest ecological impact. Despite this …

It is well documented that parents' behaviour and family norms exert a significant influence
on young people's pro-environmental attitudes and behaviour. But what is the role of …

Abstract Are'green'environmental concerns--about climate change, biodiversity, pollution--
deterring today's citizens from having children? This paper, which we believe to be the first …

This paper exploits a new large data source on environmental behaviours and attitudes of
people living in the UK to analyse to what extent the household context affects pro …

Environmental values, self-identity and personal norms are relevant factors predicting
individuals' environmentally-friendly behaviors. These environmental motivations do not …

Recent research on how best to support the development of pro-environmental behaviours
has pointed towards the household as the scale at which interventions might be most …

Objective This article explores how different motives affect behavior, and attempts to explain
how the causal chain of values and beliefs forms our understanding of and motives for …

Policy-makers are interested in cost-effective and socially acceptable ways of encouraging
the public to adopt more environmentally-friendly lifestyles. One area which UK policy …