Friday 13th March 2015
We use data from a 2011 household survey (12,202 households surveyed in 11 OECD countries) on individual environmental behaviour by the OECD Environment Directorate. The 11 OECD countries included were Australia, Canada, Chile, France, Israel, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. Indexes of households’ behaviour related to the environment in five main areas were created: waste recycling, water use, energy use, choice of transportation, and food consumption. The main variable of interest in our study is individuals’ perception about the seriousness of climate change and its role as a potential driver of environmental behaviour.
Sarah Wheeler is an Associate Professor of Applied Economics and an ARC Future Fellow at University of South Australia. She has over 80 peer-reviewed publications in the research areas of irrigated farming, climate change adaptation, organic farming, water markets, water scarcity, crime and gambling. She is an Associate Editor of the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, an Associate Editor of Water Resources and Economics, she is on the editorial board of Economics and Agricultural Science and is the Chair of the Murray-Darling Basin working group of the Food, Energy, Environment and Water (FE2W) Network.
