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Sustainable behavior : incentives, practice, and education

Author
Drayton, Annabel
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[University Park, Pennsylvania] : Pennsylvania State University, 2017.
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Bird, Rebecca (Rebecca Bliege) and Schreyer Honors College
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Summary
As luxurious consumer lifestyles have grown more extravagant, creating a system of runaway consumption, and as populations continue to grow faster than the carrying capacity could ever evolve, ecological destruction will continue to worsen. This thesis looks at proenvironmental behavior and strategic altruism as one opportunity to create a more sustainable future. Understanding where, how, and why unsustainable consumption occurs from an evolutionary perspective, as one piece of an interdisciplinary approach to creating sustainable futures, can help us find holistic solutions to our worlds climate dilemmas. This is done by introducing the evolutionary theory driving human behavior and existing research in order to address the role of gender, education, and proenvironmental practice in incentivizing sustainable consumer behavior.
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B.A. Pennsylvania State University, 2017.
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The full text of the dissertation is available as an Adobe Acrobat .pdf file ; Adobe Acrobat Reader required to view the file.
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