Web-based application to foster pro-environmental behavior via empathy

Augusta Gaspar; Ana Paula Cláudio

doi:10.1007/978-981-96-9029-9_41

Web-based application to foster pro-environmental behavior via empathy

Augusta Gaspar^*
, Ana Paula Cláudio

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Forests are disappearing at a faster pace than ever. As the problem stems not only from business interests but also from consumer’s lack of knowledge and weak motivation, we put Emotion Psychology into practice, creating a web page that addresses the problems and solutions for the world’s great forests through gamification—to motivate people across the world to make a difference, raising their awareness and empathy, as a means to change small habits that nonetheless have great environmental impact.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Imagining, designing and teaching regenerative futures
Subtitle of host publication	art-science approaches and inspirations from around the world
Editors	Julia Bentz, Jelena Ristić Trajković
Publisher	Springer
Chapter	41
Pages	265-270
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9789819690299
ISBN (Print)	9789819690282
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-9029-9_41
Publication status	Published - 17 Sept 2025

Publication series

Name	Science for Sustainable Societies
Publisher	Springer
ISSN (Print)	2197-7348
ISSN (Electronic)	2197-7356

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 4 Quality Education
SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
SDG 13 Climate Action
SDG 15 Life on Land

Keywords

Proenvironmental behavior
Environmental education
Environmental psychology
Empathy
Forests
Gamification
Emotions

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Gaspar, A., & Cláudio, A. P. (2025). Web-based application to foster pro-environmental behavior via empathy. In J. Bentz, & J. R. Trajković (Eds.), Imagining, designing and teaching regenerative futures: art-science approaches and inspirations from around the world (pp. 265-270). (Science for Sustainable Societies). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-9029-9_41

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Web-based application to foster pro-environmental behavior via empathy. / Gaspar, Augusta; Cláudio, Ana Paula.
Imagining, designing and teaching regenerative futures: art-science approaches and inspirations from around the world. ed. / Julia Bentz; Jelena Ristić Trajković. Springer, 2025. p. 265-270 (Science for Sustainable Societies).

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