Islamic Environmentalism - An empirical investigation and recommendations

Abstract

This research looks at the psychological antecedents, namely religion and attitudes, that lead to environmentally significant behaviours of Muslims in the Netherlands. By drawing upon and incorporating Value-Belief-Norm theory, the Post Critical Belief scale and the Environmental Attitudes Inventory, the Islamic Environmentalism Model is the first comprehensive attempt at constructing a predictive model of environmental behaviours of Muslims. While the results do not enable this research in definitively accepting or rejecting the model, interesting observations arise that could provide policy recommendations as well as set the direction for future research in this nascent field.