scholarly journals Attitudes of Young People Towards Lakes as a Premise for Their Public Participation in Environmental Management

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Cichoń ◽  
Weronika Warachowska ◽  
Damian Łowicki
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Young People ◽  
Lake Management ◽  
Specific Model ◽  
Participatory Management ◽  
General Development ◽  
Cognitive Component ◽  
Natural Lakes ◽  
The Future ◽  
Emotional Component

Lake protection is a very important element of environmental management. This is especially true of lake districts, where the lakes are an important resting place for residents, especially young people. The crucial is the question whether young people who participate in lake management in the future, are ready for it. It was assumed that their attitude towards lakes would be an indicator of such preparation. This study aimed to define a set of respondents’ features that may condition the specific model of participation. Based on the research conducted among young residents (N = 167) of the Szczecinecki District in Poland, it was found that their pro-environmental attitudes were dominated by high values of the traits that make up the emotional component, average values of the cognitive component and the lowest values of activity. The lower the score of the overall attitude, the more often the respondents chose Recreational Lakes, rather than General Development or Natural Lakes. The most important feature that may determine the level of participation in the future is readiness to act. A comprehensive attitude index was created, which shows that it is worth examining the characteristics of respondents that correlate with the willingness to act, i.e., knowledge, logical thinking, creativity and belief in the effectiveness of actions taken and attachment to the place of residence, when planning participatory management in lakeland areas.

scholarly journals The Australian labour market in 2020

2021 ◽  
pp. 002218562110022
Author(s):  
Elisa Birch ◽  
Alison Preston
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Older People ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Job Loss ◽  
Food Services ◽  
Hours Worked ◽  
The Future

This article provides a review of the Australian labour market in 2020. It outlines the monetary and fiscal responses to COVID-19 (including JobKeeper, JobSeeker and JobMaker policies), describes trends in employment, unemployment and underemployment and summarises the Fair Work Commission’s 2020 minimum wage decision. Data show that in the year to September 2020, total monthly hours worked fell by 5.9% for males and 3.8% for females. Job loss was proportionately larger amongst young people (aged 20–29) and older people. It was also disproportionately higher in female-dominated sectors such as Accommodation and Food Services. Unlike the earlier recession (1991), when more than 90% of jobs lost were previously held by males, a significant share (around 40%) of the job loss in the 2020 recession (year to August 2020) were jobs previously held by females. Notwithstanding a pick-up in employment towards year’s end, the future remains uncertain.

scholarly journals Future of Sustainable Management of Energy Companies in Terms of Attitudes and Preferences of the Younger Generation

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (11) ◽  
pp. 3207
Author(s):  
Arnold Pabian ◽  
Katarzyna Bilińska-Reformat ◽  
Barbara Pabian
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Energy Sector ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
Social Attitude ◽  
Future Activity ◽  
The Future ◽  
Younger Generation ◽  
Energy Companies ◽  
High Degree

The future of the energy sector depends on the younger generation. The paper presents the results of the study, the aim of which was to determine to what extent younger generation is pro-ecological and pro-social, and whether they will include pro-ecological and pro-social activities in the management of energy companies. It is especially important to implement sustainable management in the energy sector. The study found that only 33.9% of young people are highly pro-ecological and 28.6% highly pro-social. As many as 83.0% of the younger generation show low and medium interest in environmental protection. Declarations of young people concerning high degree of inclusion of pro-ecological and pro-social activities in management are at the level of 49.9% and 58.1%. However, in many cases, these intentions do not coincide with the high pro-ecological and pro-social attitude of young people. This means that their future activity for sustainable management may be low. According to the survey, the younger generation to a large extent is not prepared to continue efforts for sustainable development in the future in the energy companies.

scholarly journals Educating for the future: How higher education in environmental management affects pro-environmental behaviour

2021 ◽  
pp. 128972
Author(s):  
Inés Suarez-Perales ◽  
Jesus Valero-Gil ◽  
Dante I. Leyva-de la Hiz ◽  
Pilar Rivera-Torres ◽  
Conchita Garcés-Ayerbe
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Environmental Management ◽  
Environmental Behaviour ◽  
The Future

Millennial fears

2019 ◽  
pp. 113-138
Author(s):  
Jennie Bristow
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Young People ◽  
Direct Consequence ◽  
The Future ◽  
Education Work

This chapter looks beneath the hype and the horror that characterises Millennial myth-making, and explores the reality that confronts young people in their struggles with education, work, and housing. It shows that their experience, like that of the generations before them, is a mixed one. In some respects, they have more opportunities, more stuff, and more choices than young people have ever had; in others, their lives, aspirations, and freedoms are extraordinarily constrained. The much-discussed elements of Millennial angst can similarly be compared to the difficulties faced by young people at various points throughout history, and declared to be nothing particularly new, or even all that bad. But Millennials experience these problems as new to them, and in a particular context. They have grown up at a time when cautious hopes for the future jostle with a heightened sense of fear; when ‘the young’ are hailed as the answer to questions that nobody has quite worked out; when a prevalent generationalist outlook presents young people's problems as a direct consequence of the mistakes made by their parents' generation, which they are expected to suffer from rather than overcome. These features of our ‘millennial moment’ affect both how young adults make sense of the Zeitgeist, and how they express it.

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