Benefits of small scale projects such as Ekokoti on the Environmental Status
Edahbi, Youssef (2014)
Yrkeshögskolan Novia
2014
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201405239517
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201405239517
Tiivistelmä
Understanding the household behavior on its consumptions patterns has become an indispensable tool to achieve sustainability (Mohan, 2010). Therefore many countries started taking into consideration household lifestyle choices. In Finland, Finnish Ministry of Environment has launched programmes of sustainable consumption and production.
Ekokoti is a small scale project, where the authorities will try to help the households to understand the connection between their lifestyle choices, behavior and the environment status. With close monitoring, it is possible to estimate household environmental effects, to identify the most essential development procedures and to follow the changes (Valonia, 2013). In this Study we found that the household have learned a lot about their actions on the environmental status, although the effect of the project was not that big on their behavior. Thus, the motivation to adapt the changes did not last for a long time.
Ekokoti is a small scale project, where the authorities will try to help the households to understand the connection between their lifestyle choices, behavior and the environment status. With close monitoring, it is possible to estimate household environmental effects, to identify the most essential development procedures and to follow the changes (Valonia, 2013). In this Study we found that the household have learned a lot about their actions on the environmental status, although the effect of the project was not that big on their behavior. Thus, the motivation to adapt the changes did not last for a long time.