Measuring functions and structure of environmental attitudes from environmental educators in public sanitation (Medición de las funciones y la estructura de las actitudes ambientales de los educadores ambientales en el ámbito del saneamiento público)

Psyecology ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Igor Schutz-dos-Santos ◽  
Ariane Kuhnen
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Attitudes ◽  
Environmental Educators

Identifying the Environmental Attitudes of Iowa Businesses

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-66
Author(s):  
Merry L. Rankin ◽  
James L. Pease
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Environmental Attitudes ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
Slight Tendency ◽  
Environmental Survey ◽  
Balance Of Nature ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
Environmental Educators

Businesses play a vital role in the balance of nature, as they use, control, and affect natural resources, wild areas, and wildlife, both directly and indirectly. This study assessed the environmental attitudes and behaviors of Iowa businesses through a 24 question environmental survey administered by mail to over 700 businesses. Results from the 316 respondents provided an understanding and awareness of Iowa business attitudes and opinions and indicated networking and partnering opportunities for interpreters and other environmental educators. Nearly half of respondents identified their businesses as having a role in providing or receiving environmental education. Certain types of industries were also more likely than others to be involved in specific types of activities and interests. Environmental attitudes of respondents were found to cluster around neutrality with a slight tendency toward being more pro-environmental. Recommendations for utilizing the potential of such educational opportunities are discussed.

Political Preferences, Personality Traits, and Environmentalism

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alistair Soutter ◽  
René Mõttus
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Environmental Attitudes ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Political Orientation ◽  
Anthropogenic Climate Change ◽  
Political Preferences ◽  
Party Voting

Although the scientific evidence of anthropogenic climate change continues to grow, public discourse still reflects a high level of scepticism and political polarisation towards anthropogenic climate change. In this study (N = 499) we attempted to replicate and expand upon an earlier finding that environmental terminology (“climate change” versus “global warming”) could partly explain political polarisation in environmental scepticism (Schuldt, Konrath, & Schwarz, 2011). Participants completed a series of online questionnaires assessing personality traits, political preferences, belief in environmental phenomenon, and various pro-environmental attitudes and behaviours. Those with a Conservative political orientation and/or party voting believed less in both climate change and global warming compared to those with a Liberal orientation and/or party voting. Furthermore, there was an interaction between continuously measured political orientation, but not party voting, and question wording on beliefs in environmental phenomena. Personality traits did not confound these effects. Furthermore, continuously measured political orientation was associated with pro-environmental attitudes, after controlling for personality traits, age, gender, area lived in, income, and education. The personality domains of Openness, and Conscientiousness, were consistently associated with pro-environmental attitudes and behaviours, whereas Agreeableness was associated with pro-environmental attitudes but not with behaviours. This study highlights the importance of examining personality traits and political preferences together and suggests ways in which policy interventions can best be optimised to account for these individual differences.

Who Speaks for Nature?

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Todd A. Eisenstadt ◽  
Karleen Jones West
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Oil Spills ◽  
Environmental Attitudes ◽  
Nationwide Survey ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Early Theory ◽  
Oil Drilling ◽  
Indigenous Worldviews ◽  
Individual Vulnerability

Parting from conventional social science arguments that people speak for the ethnic groups they represent or for social or class-based groups, this study argues that attitudes of Ecuador’s Amazon citizens are shaped by environmental vulnerability, and specifically exposure to environmental degradation. Using results of a nationwide survey to demonstrate that vulnerability matters in determining environmental attitudes of respondents, the authors argue that groups might have more success mobilizing on behalf of the environment through geographically based “polycentric rights,” rather than through more traditional and ethnically bound multicultural rights. This book offers among the first methodological bridges between scholarship considering social movements, and predominantly ethnic groups, as primary agents of environmental change in Latin America and those emphasizing the agency of individuals. The authors conduct a nationwide survey to glean respondent positions on a range of environmental issues, then contextualize these findings through scores of in-depth interviews with indigenous, environmental, government, academic, and civil society leaders throughout Ecuador between 2014 and 2017. They find that some abstract issues—like indigenous worldviews—affect peoples’ attitudes, but that concrete experiences—such as that of living in areas of environmental degradation due to oil drilling—is a more important conditioner of environmental attitudes. The authors qualify post-materialism, an early theory of environmentalism, which argues that material well-being makes citizens more protective of the environment. The book concludes that post-materialism must be tempered by individual vulnerability, and that group activism is more successful where people have not yet been adversely impacted by environmental degradation such as oil spills and forest destruction.

Thinking with a landscape: the Australian Alps, horses and pedagogical considerations

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Scott Jukes
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Specific Problem ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Outdoor Environmental Education ◽  
Australian Alps ◽  
Environmental Educators ◽  
Multiple Species ◽  
Constructing Knowledge

Abstract This paper proposes some possibilities for thinking with a landscape as a pedagogical concept, inspired by posthuman theory. The idea of thinking with a landscape is enacted in the Australian Alps (AA), concentrating on the contentious environmental dilemma involving introduced horses and their management in this bio-geographical location. The topic of horses is of pedagogical relevance for place-responsive outdoor environmental educators as both a location-specific problem and an example of a troubling issue. The paper has two objectives for employing posthuman thinking. Firstly, it experiments with the alternative methodological possibilities that posthuman theory affords for outdoor environmental education, including new ways of conducting educational research. Secondly, it explores how thinking with a landscape as a pedagogical concept may help open ways of considering the dilemma that horses pose. The pedagogical concept is enacted through some empirical events which sketch human–horse encounters from the AA. These sketches depict some of the pedagogical conversations and discursive pathways that encounters can provoke. Such encounters and conversations are ways of constructing knowledge of the landscape, covering multiple species, perspectives and discursive opportunities. For these reasons, this paper may be of relevance for outdoor environmental educators, those interested in the AA or posthuman theorists.

Environmental attitudes and behaviour of birdwatchers: a missing link

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Pedro Pintassilgo ◽  
Patrícia Pinto ◽  
Andreia Costa ◽  
António Matias ◽  
M. Helena Guimarães
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Attitudes ◽  
Missing Link

An Investigation into the Impact of Environmental Education Certification on Perceptions of Personal Teaching Efficacy

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-17
Author(s):  
Mandy Harrison ◽  
Lisa Gross ◽  
Jennifer McGee
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Teaching Efficacy ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
The North ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Personal Teaching Efficacy ◽  
Environmental Educators ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this study is to examine how participation in the North Carolina Environmental Educator (NCEE) program influences the individual's perceived self-efficacy. Specifically, this study examines the impact of NCEE certification on participants’ perceived personal teaching self-efficacy. This study compared personal teaching efficacy scores of certified environmental educators, non-certified environmental educators, and licensed schoolteachers. The study found significant differences in teaching efficacy between certified and non-certified environmental educators, as well as certified environmental educators and licensed school teachers. In addition, the study found no significant difference in efficacy scores between NCEE certified licensed school teachers and NCEE certified environmental educators. Results of this study indicate a link between environmental education certification and higher personal teaching efficacy.

scholarly journals Multidimensional Model of Environmental Attitudes: Evidence Supporting an Abbreviated Measure in Spanish

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 4438
Author(s):  
Elena Andrade ◽  
Gloria Seoane ◽  
Luis Velay ◽  
Jose-Manuel Sabucedo
Keyword(s):  
Political Ideology ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Environmental Attitudes ◽  
Environmental Movement ◽  
Measurement Model ◽  
Validity Evidence ◽  
Teaching Platform ◽  
First Order ◽  
Economic Liberalism ◽  
Growth Economic

We conducted three independent studies to support the Spanish version of the Environmental Attitudes Inventory (EAI). The first study consisted of translating and pre-testing on a sample of 125 college students. The second consisted of testing the EAI on a sample of 225 university students in several undergraduate courses. Student data were collected using two different methods, through an online teaching platform and in the classroom. The findings were symmetrical in terms of precision and dimensionality. The third study completed the aforementioned ones testing the items on a representative sample from the general population in Spain. The participants were 630 citizens from 17 regions and responded to the EAI using an online platform. The results of the factor analysis led us to propose a measurement model, with 18 items and six first-order factors: environmental movement activism, conservation motivated by anthropocentric concern, confidence in science and technology, personal conservation behaviour, human dominance over nature, and support for population growth policies. External validity evidence was assessed by the correlation with the following variables: neuroticism, ecological behaviour, limits to economic growth, economic liberalism, sustainability, altruism, and social desirability. These estimations stayed away from demographic and personal aspects such as age, sex, political ideology, and region.

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