scholarly journals Making Pledges More Powerful: Effects on Pro-Environmental Beliefs and Conservation Behavior

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (17) ◽  
pp. 9894
Author(s):  
Tyler P. Jacobs ◽  
Lauren L. Gottschalk ◽  
Mitchell Dandignac ◽  
Allen R. McConnell
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
The Self ◽  
Environmental Action ◽  
Random Assignment ◽  
Environmental Legislation ◽  
Freedom Of Choice ◽  
Conservation Behavior ◽  
Environmental Beliefs ◽  
Ought Self

We developed pledges that capitalized on several self-related properties (e.g., freedom of choice, actual-ought self-discrepancies, foot-in-door technique) and manipulated two experimental factors: pledge beneficiary and pledge audience. In two studies, participants received a recycling pledge based on a random assignment in a 2 (Beneficiaries: Nature vs. Self) × 2 (Audience: Ingroup vs. Outgroup) design. Afterwards, we assessed their pro-environmental beliefs and provided them with a behavioral opportunity to support conservation (i.e., recycling debriefing forms in Study 1, writing letters to congresspeople regarding an environmental policy in Study 2). In both studies, an interaction between beneficiaries and audience was observed, showing that a recycling pledge framed as benefitting nature and sponsored by a social ingroup led to more progressive environmental beliefs. In Study 2, individuals in the same condition (i.e., the nature-ingroup pledge) wrote more persuasive letters (longer and more sophisticated letters) supporting pro-environmental legislation. Implications for constructing effective pledges and for leveraging the self to promote pro-environmental action are discussed.

scholarly journals The (un)successful EU Environmental Policy

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-67
Author(s):  
Rafael Leite Pinto
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
Environmental Action ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Action Programme ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Environmental Measures ◽  
The Eu

The EU asserts itself as a leader when it comes to climate change policy. In this article, we analyze the EU’s environmental action regarding the 7th Environmental Action Programme 2020 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) 2030 set by the UN. We synthesise the successes and failures of the EU’s environmental policy in the fields of emissions reduction, circular economy, biodiversity, energy policy and agricultural policy, with the goal of understanding where the EU is lacking and what, therefore, needs stronger measures to reach international goals and avoid an environmental catastrophe. We conclude that the EU will not reach most environmental targets set for 2020 and in order to achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, what changes need to be implemented to ensure stronger environmental measures.

scholarly journals Formation of institutional environment in the ecological sphere (by the example of BAT implementation)

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 148-165
Author(s):  
Olga P. Burmatova
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Environmental Legislation ◽  
Management Mechanism ◽  
Best Available Technologies ◽  
Institutional Conditions ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Legislative Framework ◽  
Institutional Aspects

The article analyses institutional aspects of the formation of environmental policy in Russia. It shows a number of inefficient institutional conditions which can hardly contribute to the improvement of modern state environmental policy. Special attention is paid to the development and application of environmental legislation largely determining the state of the institutional environment as a whole, which affects the formation and effectiveness of various environmental protection management elements. The paper explains the main reasons why the Russian environmental legislation is weak, and proposes possible directions for its improvement. The proposed recommendations can be used to develop key elements of the environmental management mechanism. By the example of establishing legislative framework for the transition to best available technologies, the article shows possibilities and problems of such a transition in Russia. The advantages and disadvantages of the accepted categorization of the objects according to the degree of their negative impact on the environment with the issuance of integrated environmental permit as one of the main areas of activity in the transition to the best available technologies are analyzed.

Kierkegaard’s Construction of the Human Self

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-47
Author(s):  
Georgios Patios
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Direct Product ◽  
Dynamic Process ◽  
The Self ◽  
Freedom Of Choice

The purpose of this article is to analyze Kierkegaard’s philosophical views concerning the problem of the nature of the human self. With the help of a close examination of Kierkegaard’s texts The Concept of Anxiety and The Sickness unto Death, we argue that Kierkegaard “constructs” the human self in a specific way. This way reveals, through the examination by Kierkegaard of “anxiety” and “despair,” three main characteristics of the human self: a) the self is a dynamic process, always “becoming” in time through free will and freedom of choice, b) the human self is always a historical self, so that history is then a direct product of “becoming a self,” and c) the human self, in order to be “whole,” must freely ground itself in a transcendental being (God).

Principle of Subsidiarity and the EU Environmental Policy

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas de Sadeleer
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Fundamental Principle ◽  
Maastricht Treaty ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Environmental Legislation ◽  
Member States ◽  
Single European Act ◽  
The Eu

The principle of subsidiarity is a fundamental principle of the European Union. It has first been introduced in the field of environmental policy by the Single European Act in 1987 and extended to all fields of shared competencies by the Maastricht treaty in 1992. Since then much has been done to operationalize the principle, and subsidiarity has received increasing attention by the Union’s institutions and Member States. The following contribution provides a brief appraisal of the role of the principle and of how it has influenced environmental legislation, so far.

Tragedy or Chivalrous Romance? The Swedish Government and the Baltic Sea Pipeline

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 266-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna-Lisa Sayuli Fransson
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Gas Pipeline ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Baltic Sea ◽  
Happy Ending ◽  
Paradoxical Situation ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Baltic

When Sweden was confronted with the idea of building a gas pipeline through the Baltic Sea, the Swedish government found itself in a paradoxical situation. Should it give in to strong foreign interests and abandon its proudly held line of environmental policy, or stick to its profile at the risk of earning a powerful adversary? This narrative analysis, building on the government's official narratives, explains how and why the self-proclaimed environmental guardian of the sea ended up having it both ways. By using strategies of depoliticization, polarization, and parallel storytelling, the Swedish government surrendered narrative power to its antagonist, alternated between incompatible views of its own political capability, and added a happy ending to the pipeline tragedy. These strategies enabled the government to make an environmentally controversial decision without losing prestige or abandoning its ethical profile regarding the Baltic Sea.

I. ENVIRONMENT

2010 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 1129-1141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Kingston
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
The State ◽  
Environmental Action ◽  
Present Survey ◽  
Environment And Health ◽  
Action Programme ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Made In

The period since the last survey published in this journal has been marked by much activity, but also some frustration, in the area of EU environmental policy.1 The present survey comes as the EU nears the end of its Sixth Environmental Action Programme (EAP) setting out the EU's environmental policy directions from 2002 to 2012, where it identified four priority areas for this period: climate change; nature and biodiversity; environment and health; and natural resources and waste.2 While progress has been made in each of these fields, significant setbacks have also occurred and, in a number of important areas, the state of the EU environment continues to deteriorate.

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