The Italian Population behaviour towards environmental sustainability: a study from Istat surveys

he interest of the Scientific Community in environmental protection issues aiming at guaranteeing future sustainability is constantly increasing . For this reason, the environmental social sciences, in recent years, are treating the interrelationships between population and environment. In Italy, an informative contribution comes from both Istat traditional Multipurpose Survey "Aspects of daily life" and Istat more recent Survey on “Energy Consumption of Households”. The aim of the paper is to analyse the determinants of pro-environmental behaviours of Italian citizens, with particular attention to those finalized to reduce the damage on the environment, as well as those directed to encourage energy efficiency, by deepening the direction of the relationships with socio-demographic and other relevant characteristics, proposing easily replicable over time measures and using a multivariate data analysis approach.