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Developing Low-Carbon Awareness and Low-Carbon Behavior Framework for Tackling CO₂Emission in a City

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Low-carbon community (LCC) has recently attracted attention of many researchers and tackled the government attention from various countries, which ones may give different interpretations on the concept. Thus, awareness of low carbon behavior among residents should be accurately measured. But first, residents’ need to have a thorough understanding of what is the real definition of low-carbon awareness and behavior. This paper proposed an analysisof low-carbon awareness and low-carbon behavior concepts. We first divide the types of residents’ low-carbon main concepts into two categories; low carbon awareness and low carbon behavior through which the components to each category are identified. Then we provide a systematic comparison of allthree most frequently mentioned components in low-carbon awareness including low-carbon value, low-carbon attitude, low-carbon knowledge and finallyabout low-carbon behavior.The residents’ low-carbon awareness-behavior gap will then beingidentified and discussed.Finally, differences and similarities among the two residents’ concepts have been summarized.

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Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 747)

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265-268

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https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.747.265

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March 2015

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Nor Juliana Abdul Aziz, Mohd Yazid Mohd Yunos*, Nor Atiah Ismail, Md Azree Othuman Mydin

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Behaviour, Climate Change, CO₂ Emission, Low-Carbon Awareness, Low-Carbon Community

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