Could a school initiative modify pro-environmental behaviors in an entire village? For three years (2016-2018), the School Agenda 21 program was implemented in a rural primary school in Spain. The study evaluated participants' perceptions (64 students, 48 parents, 11 teachers, and 22 town residents) through qualitative questionnaires after the…

Direct experiences in nature enable us learn and form environmental attitudes. Being influenced by nature as children is thought to help form a connection to nature that can lead to a lifetime of pro-environmental behaviors. A survey of adults in a watershed with a damaged estuary, however, suggests that concern and environmental identity were…

Citizen science is increasingly popular for educating and engaging the public, but few studies test how to achieve individual outcomes including knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors, particularly in the Global South. We operationalize the citizen science participation-behavior model for a hydrologic monitoring program in Mexico to evaluate how…

The concept of "connectedness with nature" is increasingly used in environmental and sustainability discourse. However, this construct has also been critiqued and proponents charged with harboring an ambivalence that paradoxically reinforces a sense of separation from "nature". We respond to one critique by demonstrating that…

Effectively communicating environmental issues to motivate visitors' behavior is critical for zoos to accomplish their missions. We examined the relationship between zoo visitors' environmental concern and agreement with messages framed by environmental concern. Findings from two zoos (N = 298; N = 400), using two message formats, provided nearly…

Among species recovery tools available, re-introduction of animals to the wild is one of the more complex. Since the mid-1990s two successful great ape re-introductions have taken place in the Republic of Congo, leading some conservationists to revisit re-introduction as a strategy. This research explored the role of conservation education and…

Outdoor recreation participation has increased over the past decades and is projected for further growth. Given the increase, it is important to assess recreationists' environmental values, activity style, general, and site-specific attitudes and behaviors to promote environmental stewardship, and to develop effective strategies in natural…

Field studies indicate that attention to environmental issues and involvement in them depends upon community structure. Smaller, homogeneous communities tend to choose those alternatives that are perceived in the community self-interest. Larger, more pluralistic communities choose attitudes in line with general societal beliefs and more often…

A method for scaling attitudes, based upon Fishbein's expectancy-value model, was developed and used in a study in Shenandoah National Park. Individual survey responses on a particular item were placed in one of four quadrants for analysis. Three strategies for developing interpretive messages were suggested to improve mean item scores. (BW)

College biology students were asked to indicate whether they liked, disliked, or were neutral to each of 30 animals. Results indicate that Bart's conclusions (EJ 062 862), based on the assumption that students either like or dislike animals, may be unfounded. (BT)

Evaluates the predictive validity of the original and revised versions of the New Environmental Paradigm (NEP) scale, some abbreviated NEP-derived scales, and a non-NEP environmental attitudes scale. Finds that all scales explain a significant amount of the variance in a measure of intention to engage in pro-environmental behavior. (Contains 33…

Describes a study to develop an attitudinal scale to measure the attitudes of respondents toward water resources. Found that "income" and "education of the head of the household" were possible determinants of attitudes. (SH)

Describes a study to evaluate the effectiveness of a student manual in developing students' attitudes toward the protection of the environment. Thirty-six intact high school science and vocational agriculture classes formed the sample. No significant differences related to the manual were found; the instructor's education did relate to success.…

Develops a hypothetical causal model of responsible environmental behavior. Uses data from visitors to the urban forest trail in the Kwang-Reung Arboretum, Korea for testing the suggested model. Indicates that in order to enhance responsible environmental behavior, environmental education and interpretation systems need to focus on changing the…

The environmental information 454 high school students possessed was compared to their environmental attitudes. Students with more information had more favorable attitudes and also were more willing to express their attitudes. (JP)