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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"environmental values"”.
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Environmental Values and Technological Specialization
… modern industrial technology on the strength of environmental values, and tested the occupation-centered alienation from technology hypothesis. The sample consisted of 300 workers employed with small machine-tool companies in western Pennsylvania. The data were collected using a survey …
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Development of an Environmental Values Typology
The result of my analysis is an environmental values typology consisting of 68 different environment-related values organized within seven different value realms. The value realms encompass the inner self, the outer self; society/humanity, human-nature interactions, the ecosphere, physical elements …
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Environmental values, animals, and the ethical life
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Environmental Values Reconsidered: Articulating Conservation and Other More-than-human Relations
Talk of values has become ubiquitous in conservation and, more broadly, in conceptualisations of and discourses about human relations with the living world. The recently released Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Values Assessment makes the …
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The wired wilderness : electronic surveillance and environmental values in wildlife biology
… animals, hunters, animal rights activists, environmentalists, and others involved in wildlife conservation could be embodied and contested. While scholars have tended to interpret surveillance technologies in terms of the extension of human control over nature and society, I show how …
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Environmental education at Kwantlen Polytechnic University: Hidden curriculum, informal learning of Pro-environmental Values
… (KPU) campuses influences students’ pro-environmental behaviour and ideas. The study aims to make the invisible visible. A phenomenographic approach involved interviewing 14 KPU students, individually, to collect their perceptions of pro-environmental examples on campus, and potential …
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Psychosocial factors affecting enactment of pro-environmental values by individuals in their work to influence organisational practices
… indicate there is a strong link between pro-environmental values and behaviour, they also show that such values are not necessarily enacted consistently across all areas of our lives. There are many psychosocial factors that can affect congruent enactment. Improving our understanding of what …
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Evaluating social welfare implications of forestry policies when economic and environmental values matter in a British Columbia context
… while revenue, government expenditure, and the values of carbon sequestered and biodiversity accumulated are the components of the social welfare function. The policies include subsidized silviculture, imposed rotation times and compensation for the forest stand’s environmental outputs. The …
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The Interaction between Personal and Company Environmental Values and Their Influence on Pro-Environmental Behaviours in Hospitality Sector Workplace: A Case Study of An International Hotel Company
… and thus there is a growing interest in pro-environmental behaviours. Thus, this has become an increasingly important topic for academics and practitioners in the hospitality sector. Over recent years, theoretical pro-environmental behaviour models have been tested in domestic, public and …
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Environmental impact assessment under NEPA: a redundant mechanism?
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) declared the Federal government's commitment to comprehensive environmental protection. The cutting-edge of NEPA is its requirement for including an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for all major Federal actions significantly affecting the …
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Fashion and sustainability: increasing knowledge about slow fashion through an educational module
… behaviors in society often cause a great deal of environmental impact. Many consumers are unaware of their impact when they purchase low quality, inexpensive apparel items, sometimes referred to as “fast fashion.” The fast fashion business model is based upon inexpensive, low-quality garments, …
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How do the Public's Environmental Attitudes affect Recreation Demand for National Forests and Grassland in the Southwest?
… dissertation studies the relationship between environmental attitudes and National Forest management in the Southwest, specifically the effect that attitudes have on changes to recreation fees. Although there is research on the effect of environmental attitudes on willingness-to-pay for …
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Growing a green job : essays on social movements and the emergence of a new occupation
… to demonstrate how old and new forms of environmental activism have shaped key processes in the development of the occupation. The first piece of empirical work employs historical field analysis to show that three core processes of occupation formation - the creation of new practices and …
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Modeling forest protection values for the southern Appalachian spruce-fir forest
… groups may hold significantly dissimilar values for forest protection. Household and recreation group willingness to pay for southern Appalachian spruce-fir forest protection was estimated using responses from a mail-out referendum style contingent valuation survey. To test the hypothesis …
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Water rights in China: an international and comparative study
… resources, the human right to water, and the environmental right to water. ... this dissertation recommends a well structured water rights system under which the economic, social and environmental values of water resources co-exist equitably in harmony.
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Environmental advertising and food products: Is there an ideal matchup?
… research aims to compare the effectiveness of environmental claims with informational and emotional appeals when applied to utilitarian and hedonic food products. The theoretical framework of congruency effects indicates that under matching conditions consumers are more likely to have stronger …
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Marking boundary : a didactic base camp facility between desert and mountain, along the Los Angeles aqueduct in Owens Valley, California
… The purpose of this thesis is to restore lost environmental values by creating an understanding of what is involved in bringing an adequate supply of water to Los Angeles, in order that the general public is more aware of the importance to conserve and use water wisely. The execution of the …
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What Does Music Have To Do With It? - A Conceptual Framework For Designing Music Performance Centered Projects Embedding Regenerative Sustainability Practices
Addressing environmental challenges is a shared responsibility across all industries, with each sector holding a duty to innovate, adapt, and reduce its ecological impact. There is potential for musicians and the music industry to play a proactive role in advancing regenerative sustainability …
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Tvarumas Japonijos dovanų kultūroje /
… to achieve. Although people are aware of environmental values and make sustainable choices in their daily lives, they are rarely interested in sustainable gifting solutions. Incorporating environmental awareness into a gift-giving process that is influenced by social norms causes …
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ASSESSING THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN ATTENTIONAL BIAS TO CLIMATE CHANGE IMAGES AND CLIMATE ANXIETY
… completed several questionnaires assessing their environmental values as well as their depressive and anxious symptoms. They also completed a questionnaire measuring their climate anxiety. It was hypothesized that, on average, participants would dwell more on climate change images compared to …
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