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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Environmental Action"”.
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What does psychology contribute to the understanding of societal transformation? A discussion of motives for collective pro-environmental action
Pro-environmental movements organise collective strikes for actions to limit the global temperature rise and characterise lack of pro-environmental policies as immoral. Against this background, the present dissertation comprises three manuscripts that (1) connect environmental psychological …
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HOW THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT HAS FAILED THE AMERICAN PUBLIC. REVIVING ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION AS PART OF THE PUBLIC CONSCIUSNESS: ADVERTISING IS THE MISSING TOOL
The organizations that make up the environmental movement have a great opportunity and challenge before them. These organizations could lead our nation in a time of great change. They could challenge the public to align personal consumer habits with positive environmental beliefs. However, the …
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HOW THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT HAS FAILED THE AMERICAN PUBLIC. REVIVING ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION AS PART OF THE PUBLIC CONSCIUSNESS: ADVERTISING IS THE MISSING TOOL
The organizations that make up the environmental movement have a great opportunity and challenge before them. These organizations could lead our nation in a time of great change. They could challenge the public to align personal consumer habits with positive environmental beliefs. However, the …
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Youth-adult Partnerships Creating Positive Environmental Change
When youth create positive environmental change in their communities they typically act with adult guidance. The role of adults, however, is largely absent in literature around youth participation in environmental action. This research explored through phenomenological interviews with 33 …
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Pro-environmental behaviours in a high school social network
… challenge facing the world today. Social interactions can shape both collective and individual responses to environmental degradation. During adolescence friends may be particularly influential in pro-environmental behaviour as this is thought to be a time of heightened susceptibility to peer …
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Top Management Team Attention To The Threats From Technological Disasters: Evidence From Polluters In The S&P 1500
Increased public attention to environmental disasters is reducing the likelihood firms can ascribe the consequential damages of stakeholders to "acts of Nature". This phenomenon indicates that the absence of top management team (TMT) attention to natural environmental issues leads a firm to …
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Environmentalism Among Older Adults: Investigating Predictors of Pro-Environmental Behavior in Later Life
<p>Human actions are largely responsible for degradation of the natural environment, and environmental threats due to climate change are increasingly prevalent. Despite the immediate need to conserve the natural environment, the role of older adults in pro-environmental initiatives has largely been …
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Technology against technocracy : toward design strategies for critical community technology
… and draws upon examples from the Civic Lab for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR) in Newfoundland, Data DiscoTechs in Detroit, and the Center for Urban Pedagogy in New York City.
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The Frozen Commons: Possibilities and Limitations in International Environmental Development in the Russian Arctic
… of capacity improvement to assess multilateral, environmental interventions in the Russian Arctic. The case studies reveal the occasions wherein target linking, commitment making, behavioral influence, and knowledge production played significant roles in influencing Russian institutions to take …
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Community: A Simulation Game for Environmental Involvement
… need for a method of communicating concepts of environmental action, reviews environmental movements and simulation gaming theory, proposes methodology and learning objectives and describes an environmental simulation game named ''Community". The game simulates a small town with four industries …
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Environmental Education for Sustainability Projects: Inspiring and Facilitating Implementation
<p>Our world is faced with a vast array of environmental catastrophes ranging everywhere from climate change, to air and water pollution, to mass extinction of species which all threaten the environment and human existence. As of now, students are not being informed on the sustainability issues, or …
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Making Futures, Making Selves: The Future-Oriented Subject in Eco-Political Documentary Films
… as educators of climate futures, inspirers of environmental action and promoters of sustainable lifestyles – as conceptual and practical how-to guides for the future. Building on a grounded theory approach, my reconstructive analysis of feature-length documentaries released between 2006 and …
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Understanding Community Support Towards Three Marine Protected Areas in the Visayas Region of the Philippines
… as the combination of attitudes and relevant environmental action undertaken with regards to the already implemented MPA. This thesis seeks to understand “community support” by determining: 1. What factors influence attitudes towards MPAs? 2. What factors influence actions towards MPAs? 3. …
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EVENT CLOUDS : lighter than air architectural structures
… visual perception of an urban monument and the environmental action of locally producing energy to reduce carbon footprint of large events. EVENT CLOUD defeats gravity by enclosing within its boundaries a gas that weighs less than air to make the whole structure react to the medium it is placed …
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Motivations That Underpin Environmental Response In Business: The Case of the Screen-Printing Sector
… and government regulation demand improved environmental performance. This change of emphasis has profound implications for those responsible for the strategic development of businesses whether it is via the adaption of businesses to the context in which they operate or the accumulation of …
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Constructing Effectiveness: Culture, Legitimacy, and Strategic Planning in Zoos and Aquariums
… communities with nature, and inspiring environmental action—making “effectiveness” difficult to define. What counts as success depends on who is asked and which goals are foregrounded. This study investigated how stakeholders in Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA)–accredited …
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A Review of Environmental Impact Assessment and the Influence upon the Minerals Industry
Over the years Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) has evolved to meet an increasing need for a comprehensive system of environmental protection whereby development in general and minerals extraction in particular, must be balanced with environmental considerations.<br/><br/>The history of …
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