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Cultural theory meets the community : Worldviews and local issues
Maria Luísa Lima,Paula Castro +1 more
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In this article, a 14-item scale was developed to assess the four views of nature identified by cultural theory, and the results, obtained in a sample of 300 residents of an industrialized area, support the relationships predicted by the theory.About:
This article is published in Journal of Environmental Psychology.The article was published on 2005-03-01. It has received 100 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Place attachment & Belongingness.read more
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Personal and social factors that influence pro-environmental concern and behaviour: a review
Robert Gifford,Andreas Nilsson +1 more
TL;DR: The number of these influences suggests that understanding pro-environmental concern and behaviour is far more complex than previously thought, and a primary goal of researchers now should be to learn more about how these many influences moderate and mediate one another to determine pro-Environmental behaviour.
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Environmental Psychology Matters
TL;DR: This chapter discusses transactions in which nature provides restoration or inflicts stress, and transactions that are more mutual, such as the development of place attachment and identity and the impacts on and from important physical settings such as home, workplaces, schools, and public spaces.
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Temporal pessimism and spatial optimism in environmental assessments: An 18-nation study
Robert Gifford,Leila Scannell,Christine Kormos,Lidia Smolova,Anders Biel,Stefan Boncu,Victor Corral,Hartmut Güntherf,Kazunori Hanyu,Donald W. Hine,Florian G. Kaiser,Kalevi Korpela,Luisa Lima,Angela G. Mertig,Ricardo García Mira,Gabriel Moser,Paola Passafaro,José Q. Pinheiro,Sunil Saini,Toshihiko Sako,Elena Sautkina,Yannick Savina,Peter Schmuck,Wesley Schultz,Karin Sobeck,Eva Lotta Sundblad,David Uzzell +26 more
TL;DR: In this article, personal assessments of the current and expected future state of the environment by 3232 community respondents in 18 nations were investigated at the local, national, and global spatial levels.
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Communicating Climate Change: Closing the Science‐Action Gap
Susanne C. Moser,Lisa Dilling +1 more
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Predicting intention to improve household energy efficiency: the role of value-belief-norm theory, normative and informational influence, and specific attitude
TL;DR: In this paper, a model focusing on the value-belief-norm (VBN) theory and including different kinds of social influence (normative and informational) and attitude towards the target behaviour was tested on the intention to use renewable energy sources at the household level.
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Perception of risk.
TL;DR: This research aims to aid risk analysis and policy-making by providing a basis for understanding and anticipating public responses to hazards and improving the communication of risk information among lay people, technical experts, and decision-makers.
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Sense of community: A definition and theory
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the dynamics of the sense-of-community force and describe the process by which these elements work together to produce the experience of sense of community.
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New Trends in Measuring Environmental Attitudes: Measuring Endorsement of the New Ecological Paradigm: A Revised NEP Scale
TL;DR: The New Ecological Paradigm Scale (NEP) as mentioned in this paper is an improved version of the original NEP Scale, which has been used widely for measuring pro-environmental orientation.
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The “New Environmental Paradigm”
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a new environmental paradigm, the New Environmental Paradigm (NE Paradigm), which they call the "New Environmental Education" paradigm (NEED).
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The affect heuristic in judgments of risks and benefits
TL;DR: In this paper, the inverse relationship between perceived risk and perceived benefit was examined and it was shown that people rely on affect when judging the risk and benefit of specific hazards, such as nuclear power.
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