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Romanian Students’ Environment-Related Routines during COVID-19 Home Confinement: Water, Plastic, and Paper Consumption
- Source :
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 18, Iss 8209, p 8209 (2021), International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Volume 18, Issue 15
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- MDPI AG, 2021.
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Abstract
- The disruptive force of the COVID-19 pandemic is lessening in power and plans are being made for the postcrisis period, among which increasing the sustainability of higher education is of significant importance. The study aims at establishing students’ existing environment-related routines during their home confinement, as a basis for applying green measures to campus living once academic life is resumed with the physical presence of students. The collected data rely on self-reported information provided by 816 students from Politehnica University of Timisoara (Romania), collected via an online, anonymous survey. The novelty of the approach is that household environment-related routines are investigated during a crisis period, with the possibility to build upon the results to implement tailored measures to encourage or diminish environmentally relevant consumption by young, highly skilled individuals. The students display a moderate awareness of environmental issues and indicate consumption routines that may be steered towards an increased sustainability-conscious campus life, through the combined intervention of the university, city administration, and stakeholder involvement. The findings are used to explore the possible directions for action towards increasing or contributing to the territorial sustainability in the socio-ecological context of Timisoara, the largest university city in the western part of Romania via educational, managerial and policy interventions.
- Subjects :
- territorial sustainability
Universities
Higher education
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Psychological intervention
Context (language use)
010501 environmental sciences
socio-ecological system
01 natural sciences
Article
environment-related routine
environmental policy
Humans
paper consumption
Marketing
post-COVID-19 higher education
Students
Pandemics
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Consumption (economics)
Romania
SARS-CoV-2
business.industry
05 social sciences
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Novelty
Stakeholder
COVID-19
Water
050301 education
student campus
Sustainability
green university
Medicine
Socio-ecological system
Business
Plastics
0503 education
plastic consumption
water consumption
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 16617827 and 16604601
- Volume :
- 18
- Issue :
- 8209
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....0f333c603b967d2bf4be685f71c0508b