Pro-environmental attitudes of users and non-users of fuelwood in a rural area of Greece

Concern for the environment has been a dominant social theme over the last decades, and public awareness regarding environmental risks is today greater than ever before. The present study aims to investigate the association between environmental attitudes and the use of biomass energy (bioenergy), especially fuelwood. To achieve this objective, firstly, a measure derived from the survey responses is used to classify individuals according to their evaluation of a number of selected items and secondly, the relation between individual pro-environmental measurements and the use of fuelwood is examined. Thirdly, the introduction of other factors into the analysis, such as income, age, gender and educational level serves to provide further evidence.