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Tyson, Ben; Unson, Christine; Edgar, Nick – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2017
Three community engagement projects on the South Island of New Zealand are enacting education and communication initiatives to improve the uptake of best management practices on farms regarding nutrient management for improving water quality. Understanding the enablers and barriers to effective community-based catchment management is fundamental…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Involvement, Agricultural Production, Water Quality
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Karakaya, Ferhat; Yilmaz, Mehmet – International Electronic Journal of Environmental Education, 2017
The purpose of the present research is to determine science teachers' and biology teachers' awareness levels of environmental ethics in relation to different variables. The "Environmental Ethics Awareness Scale" developed by Özer and Keles (2016) was used in the research. The research is consisted of 237 people, including 130 science…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Environmental Standards, Ethics, Familiarity
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Moretti, Enrico; Neidell, Matthew – Journal of Human Resources, 2011
A pervasive problem in estimating the costs of pollution is that optimizing individuals may compensate for increases in pollution by reducing their exposure, resulting in estimates that understate the full welfare costs. To account for this issue, measurement error, and environmental confounding, we estimate the health effects of ozone using daily…
Descriptors: Pollution, Costs, Evidence, Environmental Standards
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Owen, Ann L.; Conover, Emily; Videras, Julio; Wu, Stephen – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2012
Using data from a new household survey on environmental attitudes, behaviors, and policy preferences, we find that current weather conditions affect preferences for environmental regulation. Individuals who have recently experienced extreme weather (heat waves or droughts) are more likely to support laws to protect the environment. We find…
Descriptors: Evidence, Weather, Climate, Conservation (Environment)
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Carley, Sanya – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2012
Over the past decade and a half, state governments have assumed greater responsibility over demand-side management (DSM) operations. Whereas DSM programs formerly were initiated primarily by utilities or state public utility commissions, they are now becoming increasingly state-initiated and incentivized through funding mechanisms or…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Research Design, Educational Research, Energy Conservation
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Hamilton, Lawrence C.; Colocousis, Chris R.; Duncan, Cynthia M. – Rural Sociology, 2010
How people respond to questions involving the environment depends partly on individual characteristics. Characteristics such as age, gender, education, and ideology constitute the well-studied "social bases of environmental concern," which have been explained in terms of cohort effects or of cognitive and cultural factors related to social…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Individual Characteristics, Conservation (Environment), Audience Awareness