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Environmental concerns and switching toward electric vehicles: geographic and institutional perspectives

Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020

Smog pollution deteriorates environmental quality and has severe health risks. This affects the d... more Smog pollution deteriorates environmental quality and has severe health risks. This affects the daily lives of people in China, particularly in urban areas. Along with other factors, a large portion for smog comes from transportations, making it dense and more hazardous in urban areas. The Chinese government aims to reduce air pollution by promoting electric vehicles and green modes for mobility along with other environmental protection measures. The study explores the switching intentions of people from motorized vehicles to electric vehicles by integrating push-pull-mooring model and institutional theory. The study incorporates environmental quality, regulative environment, alternative attractiveness, normative environment, self-(decision)efficacy, and willingness to pay into an integrated framework. The study further analyzes the green behavior of consumers by extending switching intentions for electric vehicles. The integrated framework explains mooring as the most influential factor followed by normative environment from pull factors and environmental quality from push factors. The effect of regulative environment remains weak and significant, but the effect of alternative attractiveness remains weak and insignificant. The switching intentions strongly and significantly explain green behavior. Furthermore, mooring moderates the relationship between push factors, some of the pull factors, and switching intentions.

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Social aspects of ‘climate change communication’ in the 21st century: a bibliometric view

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2019

Climate change communication integrates climate education theory and practices. It indicates the ... more Climate change communication integrates climate education theory and practices. It indicates the public understanding of scientific knowledge on climate change, communicative context, public engagement, and adaption. It is important to communicate climate change messages successfully to various groups in society, including residents, environmental educators, policymakers, researchers, to increase public understanding of climate change. This study examines 454 journals, 1,408 articles and 51,786 references to explore the intellectual development and research fronts in the knowledge area of climate change communication.

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Between green and gray: Smog risk and rationale behind vehicle switching

Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019

Abstract Smog pollution and its health risk have severe effects on the daily lives of people in C... more Abstract Smog pollution and its health risk have severe effects on the daily lives of people in China. Most of the contribution to smog in urban areas comes from transportation, making it more severe, dense, and hazardous for health and routine work. The government of China is struggling to mitigate smog pollution by promoting green vehicles and the mode of transportation along with other policy measures. The current study attempts to investigate the intention of people to switch [or Switching Intention (SI)] from motorized vehicles to green vehicles by incorporating the Push-Pull-Mooring model from migration theory and Institutional Theory. The study integrates Smog Knowledge (SK), Smog Health Risk (SHR), and Regulative Environment (RE) as Push factors; Alternative Attractiveness (AA) and Normative Environment (NE) as Pull factors; and Self-efficacy (SE) and Switching Cost (SC) as Mooring factors. This is the first study of its kind to investigate SI for green vehicles. The model explains that Pull and Mooring effects are more effective than are Push effects, with Mooring factors moderating the relationship between some Push factors, the Pull factors, and SI. The government needs to educate people more about their vehicle use, which lead to smog pollution, simultaneously with adoption measures, which will enhance efficacy both at the social and individual level and help the government to implement their policies in a more effective way.

Climate change communication as political agenda and voters’ behavior

Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2019

Climate change communication" is taking the strategic position in the international and national ... more Climate change communication" is taking the strategic position in the international and national politics around the globe. In the recent decade, different developing nations have started considering "climate change communication" as an integral part of the political campaigns and sustainable development. Specifically, the current document comprised of two sections. In the first section of the study, authors briefly compared the attributes related to "climate change communication" in the mainstream political parties' manifesto for the general election 2018 in Pakistan in a qualitative manner. In the second part, the difference of opinion among voters of mainstream political parties towards "climate change" was examined. In a bird's eye view, the perceived seriousness of "climate change" as a real challenge among voters mapped by the independent factors of "urbanization," "industrialization," "transportation," and "waste management" for sustainable development through the primary quantitative survey of 732 voters in the country. The finding highlights (1) public understanding of "socio-scientific issues," i.e., climate change is easy to communicate, and (2) how political parties are framing and communicating about "climate change" plays a significant role in climate change communication. The study concludes that "climate change communication" holds a critical role in developing regions' future political discourse to shape sustainable development policies. Keywords Climate change communication. Politics. Pakistan. Socio-scientific issues. Pro-environmental behavior biggest hurdle for the United Nations' sustainable development goals which are targeted to be accomplish by the year 2030 (Biagini et al. 2014). The action regarding climate change can be labeled as initiatives to adapt and mitigate. Adaptation measures the effect of climate change over the lives of individuals and society. However, mitigation highlights the causes and sources of climate change worldwide. To communicate the seriousness of climate change, different communication strategies have already been proposed by different researchers in the literature to trigger social and behavioral change (Corner et al. 2010). Moreover, the social and cultural factors affect critically to define the framing strategies for communicating about climate change and for redefining public perception about global warming (Akerlof et al. 2013). For any socio-psychological and behavioral modeling in the case of socio-scientific issues, the micro-and macro-level factors are inevitable to address, as they amplify the effectiveness of any strategic initiative (Abildtrup et al. 2006). Brulle et al. (2012) indicate that the effect of economic conditions and elite cues is much larger than the scientific risk communication when it comes to policy preferences. The Muhammad Azfar Anwar, Rongting Zhou and Aqsa Sajjad contributed equally to this work.

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Knowledge mapping of GMO/GMF research in social sphere

Cogent Food & Agriculture, 2019

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Measuring the Training Effectiveness in University-Industry Linkages: A Case of Pakistan

Pakistan is paying attention in advancement of Science, technology and innovation policies which ... more Pakistan is paying attention in advancement of Science, technology and innovation policies which helps building solid university and industry linkages. As operating cost in Pakistan is increasing constantly, so industries feel it to be going in loss. Indeed, it raises the burden on universities to swap old trends of industries with new technological and innovative skills in Industrial sector of Pakistan. The objective of this study is to identify certain aspects for the training of industrial sector through universities of the particular region. Previous literature shows low interest of university, industry and government collaboration. The study is significant as there is paucity of research work available in such sector of Pakistan. Therefore, this study is restricted to uncover limited explanations of certain aspects of university and industry linkages. A structured focus group method through different managers, technicians from industrial side and academicians from university si...

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