Exploring public attitudes to personal carbon dioxide emission information
Table of contents
- Front page
- Executive summary
- Attitudes and understanding of environmental issues
- Views on carbon calculators
- Attitudes towards personal carbon emissions information
- Introduction
- Background
- Methodology
- Attitudes and understanding of environmental issues
- Environmental awareness and terminology
- Broad environmental terminology
- Emissions-related terminology
- Personal carbon emissions quantification and measurement
- Summary
- Views on carbon calculators
- Calculator development and management
- Motivation of users
- Features of carbon calculators
- Accuracy and reliability
- Summary
- Attitudes towards personal carbon emissions information
- Reaction to using a carbon calculator
- Engagement with carbon calculators
- Role of calculating carbon emissions in terms of travel behaviour
- Summary
- Conclusions
- Public attitudes and understanding of environmental issues and personal emissions information
- Effects of carbon calculators on attitudes and behaviour
- The uniqueness of travel behaviour change
- Summary
- Carbon calculator good practice recommendations
- Recommendations for carbon calculator development
- Recommendations for carbon calculator design
- Recommendations for carbon calculator accuracy and reliability
- Appendices
- Sample details
- Fieldwork materials
- Recruitment process
- Analytical methodology
- Assessment of strengths and weaknesses of adopted approach
