We often hear about ecological catastrophies - water polluted by company waste, deforestation, and a growing increase of degraded land that will take moe than one decade to regenerate. At the European level, the aim is to promote ecological ideas, which will help reduce consumption flows and change people´s habits in the search for alternative renewable energy sources.
What is the situation in Lithuania? How do Lithuanians contribute to implementation of environment safety and the search for new ways to reduce consumption in daily life? The answers to these and other questions will be provided in part by Mykolas Romeris University´s (MRU) Psychology Research Centre academics: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Goda Kaniušonytė, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mykolas Simas Poškus, Dr. Inga Truskauskaitė-Kunevičienė, Dr. Lina Jovarauskaitė, Dr. Oksana Malinauskienė and PhD student Audra Balundė led by Prof. Rita Žukauskienė. They are participating in the project, ¨Act Responsibly¨.
The MRU academics, conducting research, tried to determine the development of various forms of environmentally-friendly behaviour in Lithuania. They researched a wide spectrum of psychological and other factors, which can potentially explain behaviour and prepared recommendations to governmental and also to NGO´s about environmentally-friendly behaviour peculiarities in Lithuania.
¨In this research project we tried to systematically research various actions of Lithuanian citizens regarding environmentally-friendly behaviour and the main factors influencing this. In addition, we created interventions to encourage environmentally-friendly behaviour,¨noted MRU Centre researcher PhD student Audra Balundė.
