The misconception that “green is ecological” is widespread, causing the public to overlook severe ecological problems in nature and life. This study aimed to reveal how cognitive biases affect ...residents’ willingness to participate in ecological restoration and provide a valuable reference for policy design. Based on survey data from 655 urban residents, this study quantified the residents’ cognitive biases regarding the eco-consequences of natural rubber expansion and used a double-hurdle (DH) model to estimate the effect of cognitive biases on their willingness to participate (WP) and their degree of willingness to participate (DWP) in natural rubber plantation ecological restoration (RPER) programs. We further analyzed how ecological consciousness moderates the effects of cognitive biases on residents’ WP and DWP. The results indicate that there are widespread cognitive biases regarding the eco-consequences of rubber expansion among urban residents in Hainan. Cognitive biases cause a decrease in residents’ WP and DWP in the RPER programs. WP was positively influenced by residents’ educational level, and negatively influenced by age. DWP was positively correlated with residents’ household income, and industry cognition and negatively correlated with age, educational level, and residence duration. The moderating effect of the residents’ ecological consciousness significantly weakens the negative effects of cognitive biases on WP and DWP. Moreover, ecological attention exerts a negative moderating effect, whereas ecological identity and ecological practice exert a positive moderating effect. These results have profound implications for policymakers in implementing programs to restore ecosystems.
•Cognitive biases reduce residents' willingness to engage in ecological restoration.•Ecological consciousness weakens the negative effects of cognitive biases.•Ecological consciousness can be improved by increasing ecological attention.•Restoration policies should be adapted to different regional ecological conditions.
This study explores the potential of the interdisciplinary zone that is created when art meets environmental education in the Anthropocene. It shares the findings of an eco‐art project that took ...place in the framework of an environmental education course, where the undergraduate students were encouraged to create eco‐art pieces, to investigate environmental problems/issues through art and to communicate their findings with the class. The research reflects on students' artworks and reveals the environmental problems and issues that were important for them. Furthermore, it discusses four dimensions of students' ecological consciousness that emerged: a) criticism for the ecological crisis and overconsumption, b) human‐nature relationship, c) empathy for nonhuman beings and d) vision of an ecological future. The paper highlights the need for an experiential and creative pedagogical path in the process of the empowerment of the ecological consciousness in the field of environmental education.
Previous scholarship focusing on Chris Marker's involvement with social movements tends to overlook the inextricability of social and environmental concerns and to position the 1980s as a return for ...Marker to personal filmmaking. This article seeks to recontextualise Marker's work from Japan during this period to reveal the continuity of earlier preoccupations with social movements and planetary concerns. It draws on Félix Guattari's notions of ecosophy and the three ecologies in an analysis of the train motif in several of Marker's multimedia works. The analysis elucidates an ecological consciousness facilitated by the train in work such as Sans soleil (1982), its photo-textual companion Le Dépays (1982) and the photography exhibit and book Passengers (2011) as well as a search in these works for new forms of collectivity. Finally, the article draws on archival material to reveal previously unknown connections between Michel Butor, Marker, the train and the genesis of Le Dépays.
The study aimed to evaluate the influence of human values in the conscious ecological behavior of consumers in an emerging country. As literature shows, the understanding of the personal motivations ...to take ecological behaviors is important not only to academic purposes but also for public policymakers and managers. The literature review also showed a lack of understanding about the relationship of human values and consumers’ ecological behavior, especially in emerging countries. The present research aimed to fill this gap using a survey conducted in Brazil (N = 359), to identify the human values influence in ecological behavior. Statistical analysis such as EFA, CFA, and structural equation modeling were performed. Results presented both convergent and divergent results with the existing theory, especially related to understanding ecological behavior dimensions and the significative influence of universalism values on this behavior. The present research, in addition, to fulfilling the literature gap related to emerging countries, also serves as a base for policymakers to understand and develop policies based on human values to increase the level of awareness of its citizens.
•Literature shows the importance of the matter for public and private sectors, but a lack of understanding about it in the Brazilian context.•Ecological behavior factors identified: consumption, food, and energy consumption.•Universalism and nature protection values are strongly related to ecological behavior.•The importance given to power over resources value had a negative impact on ecological behavior.
Indigenist scholars have been attending to the research process in ways that highlight the move toward inquiry, the beginnings of the research journey. The energies that animate imagination and ...inquiry need to be respected and accounted for. If we recognize that place and the consciousness of landscape contain the primordial elements for the Indigenous mind, then it follows that respectful Indigenous research methods should engage with the landscape as the beginning point for inquiry. Centering "place" and "place-ness" as containing the ontological meaning of Indigenous methodology is also a way to excavate the specific effects of colonization on Indigenous landscapes and communities. Much Indigenous thought radiates from an invocation of a sentient topography, a land that is aware of human presence. This writing considers what a methodology of place, specifically in the Coast Salish territory, might consist of.
Electric vehicles (EVs) have great potential for solving problems that threaten sustainability. However, the market penetration of EVs is difficult and slow. From the perspective of consumer ...resistance, this study proposes a theoretical model to investigate the impacts of two growing personal values in the Chinese context (materialism and ecological consciousness) on consumers’ purchase intention of EVs. The research model was empirically examined with online survey data from 511 general Chinese consumers. The results indicate that consumer resistance is a crucial element hindering EV consumption and that materialism will promote consumer resistance by exerting a positive impact on perceived costs and a negative impact on perceived benefits of purchasing EVs, while ecological consciousness can effectively prevent consumers from developing a resistant attitude by increasing perceived benefits and decreasing perceived costs of purchasing EVs. Furthermore, the mediation tests suggest that value perceptions (perceived costs and perceived benefits) fully mediate the effects of materialism and ecological consciousness on consumer resistance and that resistant attitude fully mediates the relationships between value perceptions and purchase intention of EVs. Theoretically, this study contributes to the literature by investigating the influence of materialism and ecological consciousness on EV consumption and verifying the underlying mechanism linking them. Practically, the findings of this study can provide valuable insights for promoting the market penetration of EVs.
In order to improve the development of rural areas, ecological agriculture has certain advantages because it is a comprehensive and complex type of agricultural industry. As the main force in the ...implementation of Rural Revitalisation (RurR) and ecological agriculture, farmers’ ecological consciousness plays a crucial role in the final realisation of RurR strategy and the construction of ecological agriculture. This paper conducted a questionnaire survey on 1010 farmers in 8 districts of city A, and studied the ecological knowledge, ecological seriousness and attribution of ecological problems of farmers. Combined with the relevant research results, this paper formulated three strategies to promote the development of efficient ecological agricultural environment: strengthening rural ecological publicity, vigorously developing ecological agriculture, and actively giving play to the guiding role of the government.
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