In contemporary urbanised society, people are increasingly disconnected from nature. Environmental identity, as a promoter of various pro‐environmental outcomes, may bridge the human‒nature gap. However, it is less clear how environmental identity helps people to navigate sustainably within the urban environment. In three studies, we investigate how environmental identity relates to evaluations of the functions of two different types of items that populate the human‐made environment: signs that communicate environmentally appropriate behaviours (e.g., recycling signs) and objects that are instrumentally used in everyday life (e.g., plastic bags). We also examine how environmental identity differs from other related environmental constructs (i.e., environmental attitudes and behaviours) in terms of their relationship with evaluations of signs and objects. Heider’s balance theory helps us clarify this conceptual distinction; in line with this analysis, we find that explicit environmental identity was associated with more positive evaluations of environmental signs’ communicative functions, but not objects’ instrumental functions. In contrast, pro‐environmental attitudes are associated with judgements of environmentally harmful objects as a greater hindrance to sustainability. Thus, environmental identity and environmental attitudes help people to respond more pro‐environmentally in the urbanised environment by informing them of the environmental implications of signs and objects.

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在城市环境中可持续发展：环境特性和态度在标志和物体评估中的作用

在当代的城市化社会中，人们越来越与自然脱节。作为各种有利于环境的结果的推动者，环境认同可以弥合人与自然之间的鸿沟。然而，还不清楚环境身份如何帮助人们在城市环境中可持续地航行。在三个研究中，我们研究了如何识别环境涉及两种不同类型的项目的填充所人为环境功能评价：迹象通信的环境适宜的行为（例如，回收标志）和对象日常使用的工具（例如塑料袋）。我们还研究了环境身份与其他相关环境构造（即环境态度和行为）在与标志和物体的评估之间的关系方面有何不同。海德的平衡理论有助于我们阐明这一概念上的区别；根据这一分析，我们发现明确的环境身份与对环境标志的交流功能的更积极评价有关，而与物体的工具功能无关。相反，亲环境态度与对环境有害物体的判断相关联，这是对可持续性的更大障碍。从而，