INVESTIGATION OF CARBON FOOTPRINT AWARENESS USING TRAVEL DIARY METHOD

Authors

  • Nur Sabahiah Abdul Sukor
  • Nur Khairiyah Basri

Keywords:

Carbon Footprint, Travel Diary, Theory of Planned Behavior, Pro-Environment

Abstract

In this study,100 university students were recruited to complete a seven day travel diary that
described their use of privately owned motor vehicles in order to discover their underlying psychological factors
that affected the production of individual carbon footprints through travel patterns. The diaries were collected
and the respondents were given a motivation session related to carbon emissiona caused by motor vehicles. They
were then asked to record their travel patterns for a further seven days and encouraged to change their travel
patterns to be more pro-environment. A statistical analysis was performed to examine the differences of these
individual’s carbon footprints; before and after the motivation session. The results revealed significant
differences in carbon footprints between first and second travel diaries. The structural equation modeling
demonstrated that among the psychological variables, pro-environment attitude was the most significant factor
affecting the respondent’s intention to reduce their usage of motor vehicles; thus influencing the respondents’
behavior to be more pro-environmentalist. As a conclusion, this study suggests that individual carbon footprint
can be measured through travel diary method.

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Published

2015-12-13

How to Cite

Nur Sabahiah Abdul Sukor, & Nur Khairiyah Basri. (2015). INVESTIGATION OF CARBON FOOTPRINT AWARENESS USING TRAVEL DIARY METHOD. GEOMATE Journal, 7(14), 1090–1095. Retrieved from https://geomatejournal.com/geomate/article/view/2988

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