Landscape interpretation is one of the best-suited and established forms of informing and raising the awareness of visitors and local residents. The literature contains only rare examples of useful ...methodology that could help managers with the initial steps of interpretation. A methodological basis for landscape interpretation is presented, using the case of the Ljubljana Marsh. The form consisting of eight thematic categories is a useful tool for identifying suitable topics and selecting the right interpretation tools. Using this form, managers will reach their final interpretation goal more easily: to make people recognize the landscape and protect it against inappropriate changes.
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DOBA, IZUM, KILJ, NUK, PILJ, PNG, SAZU, UILJ, UKNU, UL, UM, UPUK
The modern way of life requires the exploitation of natural resources, which leads to a significant deterioration of the environment and can even endanger human health.The basic hypothesis is that ...the population of Slovenia in general is still too inadequately informed and insufficiently environmentally educated and aware about water as a natural resource to have the motivation and capability to actively participate in the protection of water as a natural resource.Most people support environmental protection in principle, especially declaratively, since this is a socially approved action. However, when faced with restrictions that would interfere with their way of life by limiting their activities or increasing their expenses, their enthusiasm decreases rapidly. And the closer we get to actions we could define as “environmentally active,” the fewer people are actually prepared to protect the environment. Possibly a fifth of the population can be defined as people who favour environmental protection and consider it a value for which they themselves are willing to do something.The survey showed that level of education is very significant relative to people’s response to environmental problems and that the more educated are more environmentally friendly.
Biodiversity and nature conservation have become prominent issues in the political agenda, at both local and global level, and in this regard the importance of considering people lifestyles, habits ...and behaviours has received increasing attention.
The present study verified an extended version of the Value-Belief-Norm (VBN) theory (Stern et al., 1999) in the prediction of action for biodiversity and nature conservation. Here we found that the VBN sequential path (including biospheric values, general pro-environmental beliefs, awareness of consequences of action, ascription of responsibility for action, and moral norm), integrated by perceived behavioural control and social norms, predict action for nature and biodiversity.
Participants (N = 183), recruited in seven European countries, had performed outstanding actions either in nature-related issues or in other areas (or were just involved in some biodiversity/nature relevant actions). They filled in an online questionnaire measuring the examined constructs.
Results confirmed the paths predicted by the VBN. In particular, moral norm and biospheric values, as well as perceived behavioural control, showed a direct impact on action for nature/biodiversity. On the other hand, social norms (notably, injunctive norm) showed only an indirect influence on action, via other dimensions.
These outcomes suggest that communication and educational agencies should promote the dissemination of biospheric values in the community, in order to trigger the moral obligation of doing something relevant for nature and biodiversity conservation. A major implication is that by increasing the proportion of people acting in a committed way for biodiversity conservation should then provide a social cue for the ones not yet acting.
•A survey study including participants from seven countries was conducted.•An extended VBN theory was expected to predict action for biodiversity and nature.•The sequential chain postulated by VBN theory is confirmed.•Moral Norm and Biospheric Values emerged as direct predictors of “green” action.•Injunctive Norm played an indirect role via Perceived Behavioural Control.
Urbanizacija povzroča spremembe v mestih in tudi okoliški pokrajini ter bistveno odstopa od konceptov trajnostnega razvoja. Poglavitni vzrok današnjega stanja je odsotnost zrelega odnosa do ...življenjskega okolja. Na ožjih vodovarstvenih območjih na Ljubljanskem polju je prostor brez vsebine - če odmislimo črpanje vode -, ki omogoča divje vrtičkarstvo, nekontrolirano odvzemanje vode in gramoza ter odlaganje odpadkov. Mestna politika je naredila prve korake k sanaciji degradirane pokrajine.
Biodiversity loss is a widely debated world problem, with huge economic, social, and environmentally negative consequences. Despite the relevance of this issue, the psychological determinants of ...committed action towards nature and biodiversity have rarely been investigated. This study aims at identifying a comprehensive social-psychological profile of activists committed to biodiversity protection and at understanding what determinants best predict their activism. A questionnaire investigating relevant social-psychological constructs identified in the literature on environmental activism was administered to 183 outstanding leaders (vs. non-leaders) in biodiversity protection across seven EU countries. Leaders (vs. non-leaders) in biodiversity protection showed, among other constructs, higher scores on environmental values, attitudes, identity, perceived control, a feeling of union and spirituality with nature, and willingness to sacrifice for their cause. Results are discussed within the theoretical framework of a motivation model of committed action for nature and biodiversity protection. Applications of the results are also proposed.
Urbanization causes changes within cities and their surrounding areas and deviates from the concepts of sustainable development. The main cause of current condition is the lack of an adequate ...relation towards the environment. In narrow water-protection zones in the area of Ljubljansko Polje there are areas without any contents, if we don't take into account water pumping, which enables allotment gardening, uncontrolled taking of water and gravel and waste dumping. The municipality has made first steps towards the rehabilitation of the degraded landscape.
This article introduces the issue of the planning of allotment gardening in the case of Ljubljana, Slovenia, as a self-supplying activity by which fresh vegetables are cultivated. Allotment gardening ...is an activity that involves just a small percentage of Ljubljana's population, those enthusiasts seeing this activity as more of a recreation and relaxation than a way of earning money. The city authorities are already anticipating that allotments will be eliminated from locations deemed unsuitable, holders then being offered alternatives in more appropriate locations. The appropriateness of these planned locations for allotments was evaluated in respect of whether key exclusion and attractiveness measures were complied with. We also determined the partial suitability of selected locations.
In the paper, we are shedding light on the course of development of environmental thought in Slovenia. The first nature protection (but not environmental protection) programme in Slovenia was written ...by the Museum Society in 1920. It is considered one of the most well-founded nature protection documents of that time in international context. Direct effects on the environment were not felt yet, with the exception of certain industrial plants. First aspirations for concerted environmental protection efforts occurred in early 1970’s. This was the consequence of increasingly deteriorating state of the environment. In the 80’s, concerted efforts were put into raising awareness among the people and the responsible state authorities about the importance of environmental protection. At that time, civil society movements started to emerge, pointing to the problems related to pollution of the Krupa river, operation of the Krško nuclear power plant, locations of nuclear waste disposal sites and pollution caused by the Šoštanj thermal power plant. Individual activists had been fostering the idea of becoming formally associated, which led to the establishment of the party Greens of Slovenia. In the first multy-party elections after the World War II in 1990, the party won as much as 8.8 % of votes which made it relatively the strongest green party in Europe. Significant shift in environmental protection in Slovenia occurred after the country became independent in 1991. Two years later, the first framework Environmental Protection Act was adopted, which was aimed at addressing environmental issues from the perspective of sustainability. Although the issue of the environment and its protection became somewhat marginal in the society until the outbreak of crisis, we have been witnessing significant positive changes also in this area, in legislation as well as in actual behaviour.
Using a sample of 900 persons from the urban area of Ljubljansko polje and the suburban area of iski vrsaj, we tried to determine how much local residents knew about the protection zones for drinking ...water resources. We employed a survey questionnaire and the drawing of cognitive maps. A little fewer than half of the people are aware they live in water protection zones. The proportions of those who are aware of the protection zones in Ljubljansko polje (two fifths) and in Iski vrsaj (two thirds) differ considerably. Only 280 persons, just under one third of those surveyed, drew the boundaries of the protection zones on the attached map. In Ljubljansko polje, the greatest concentration of drawn protection zones was a little north of the oldest and largest pumping station at Klece. The second largest condensation occurred in Iski vrsaj in the immediate vicinity of the Brest pumping station.
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Despite ongoing efforts to motivate politicians and publics in Europe regarding nature conservation, biodiversity continues to decline. Monetary valuation of ecosystem services appears to be ...insufficient to motivate people, suggesting that non-monetary values have a crucial role to play. There is insufficient information about the motivations of actors who have been instrumental in successful conservation projects. We investigated the motivations underlying these biodiversity actors using the ranking of cards and compared the results with the rankings of motivations of a second group of actors with more socially related interests. For both groups of actors, their action relating to biodiversity was supported in general by two groups of motivations related to living a meaningful life and moral values. The non-biodiversity actors also noted that their action relating to biodiversity rested more on beauty, place attachment and intrinsic values in comparison with their main non-biodiversity interests. Our results have implications for environmental policy and biodiversity conservation in that the current tendency of focusing on the economic valuation of biodiversity fails to address the motivations of successful actors, thereby failing to motivate nature conservation on an individual level.