Investing in Climate Change Adaptation: Motivations and Green Incentives in the Fiji Islands

We investigate the interplay between individual's intrinsic motivation and green incentives on stated climate change adaptive behavior. Using experimental and survey data in the Fiji Islands, we find that intrinsic motivations favoring pro-environmental [beliefs] positively influence the intent...

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Published in:Ecological economics 2018-12, Vol.154, p.394-408
Main Authors: Di Falco, Salvatore, Sharma, Sindra
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptation
Conditionality
Experiment
Framed Field Experiment
Investment
Microloans
Psychology
Small Islands States
Theory of Planned Behavior
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Summary:We investigate the interplay between individual's intrinsic motivation and green incentives on stated climate change adaptive behavior. Using experimental and survey data in the Fiji Islands, we find that intrinsic motivations favoring pro-environmental [beliefs] positively influence the intention to adapt. Moreover we find that green incentives crowd-in intrinsic pro-environmental motivations and further facilitate the uptake of adaptive investments. Demographic factors of ethnicity, occupation, participation in and access to credit also influence cognitive and behavioral constructs to varying degrees.
ISSN:0921-8009
1873-6106
DOI:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.08.015