Be Gareau, Brian J; DiDonato, Sandra
PloS one,
03/2022, Letnik:
17, Številka:
3
Journal Article
Recenzirano
In an era of mass extinction and biodiversity crisis, it is increasingly crucial to cultivate more just and inclusive multispecies futures. As mitigation and adaption efforts are formed in response ...to these crises, just transitions forward require intentional consideration of the hybrid entanglement of humans, human societies, and wider landscapes. We thus apply a critical hybridity framework to examine the entanglement of the pollinator crisis with the cultural and agricultural practice of hobbyist beekeeping. We draw on ethnographic engagements with Massachusetts beekeepers and find apiculture to be widely understood as a form of environmentalism-including as both a mitigation to and adaptation for the pollinator crisis. Illustrating how power-laden socioecological negotiations shape and reshape regional environments, we then discuss how this narrative relies on the capitalistic and instrumental logics characteristic of Capitalocene environmentalisms. These rationalities, which obscure the hybridity of landscapes, consequently increase the likelihood of problematic unintended consequences. Also present, however, is a deeper engagement with hybrid perspectives, with some beekeepers even offering pathways toward inclusive solutions. We conclude that if more just and biodiverse futures are to be realized, beekeeping communities must foster increasingly hybrid visions of apiculture as situated within socioecological and contested landscapes.
From past to present Spaccatini, Federica; Riva, Paolo; Richetin, Juliette ...
Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.),
06/2023, Letnik:
42, Številka:
18
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Research literature about the environmental spillover effect produced mixed results, revealing that an initial pro-environmental behavior (PEB) is likely to promote either other PEBs (i.e., positive ...spillover) or pro-environmental inactions and harming behaviors (i.e., negative spillover). Such inconsistency suggests a possible crucial role of moderating variables. In two experimental studies (N Study 1 = 141, N Study 2 = 124), we investigated whether the recall of past environmental behavior (water-saving vs. water-wasting) affects future intention to perform PEBs (Study 1) and actual PEBs (Study 2), depending on participants' cognitive mindset (manipulated in Study 1 and measured in Study 2). Results showed that the cognitive mindset is a significant moderator of spillover effects. Compared to a holistic one, an analytical mindset is more likely to result in a greater willingness to engage in future PEBs (Study 1) and actual PEB (Study 2) when past PEB is salient. The main contributions of the studies, limitations and possible future research directions are discussed.
This cross-sectional study aims to improve our understanding of the psychological pathways behind the commonly reported link between experiences in nature and pro-environmentalism. Particularly, we ...explore whether nature experiences lead to self-reported pro-environmental behaviors (PEBs) and whether this relation is mediated by connectedness to nature. Additionally, we examine the possible lasting effect of childhood experiences with nature on adults' PEB. Most studies reporting on the link between contact with nature and pro-environmentalism have been conducted in developed countries, limiting the generalization of the results. To address this gap in the literature, the current study was conducted in a developing country (Brazil) with a sample of 224 young adults. According to our findings, greater contact with nature during childhood is associated with greater contact with nature as an adult, which, in turn, is positively associated with connectedness to nature and PEB. The stimulation of pleasant experiences while in direct contact with nature during childhood seems to trigger interactions with nature in adulthood and consequently, adults embrace pro-environmental actions.
Our essential challenge in the face of accelerating climate change threatening global collapse is the epochal transformation from an industrial to an ecological civilization. An ecological ...civilization is based on: The comprehensive pursuit of sustainability; An ecological market system that is both sustainable and richer, not collapsing and poorer; Creation of sustainable ecological wealth; Global convergence on ecological norms by all; The expression of democratic norms as a balance of both freedom and community; Sustainable conduct and its consequences is valued and monetized on balance sheets as paid in capital and as cash to be used for further sustainable investments; All energy users can become energy owners of the global renewable energy infrastructure; Global commons regime where rights to use the global commons, air, earth and water is balanced by the responsibility to protect and maintain the commons by law and practice. Business will still pursue wealth and profit, but conditioned by clear market signals that makes sustainable goods and services cheaper, gain market share, and become more profitable. This means not just new market rules, but a supporting framework of law, regulation, social values and ethics, and ecological accounting and valuation. An ecological system is one that must, on an ongoing basis eliminate so-called externalities pollution, depletion, and ecological damage by comprehensive application of ecological market rules, law, regulation and social ethics that support sustainable conduct and ecological and social justice for all. China and the United States must take the lead in the pursuit of global ecological transformation. Success will be measured first by keeping global temperature increases below 1.5 degrees C and ultimately by returning the atmosphere to pre-industrial carbon levels of below 300 ppm. Roy Morrison. Why Ecological Civilization Is Necessary and How We Can Create It. China Media Research 2023; 19(1): 19-24. 3 Keywords: Ecological Civilization; Sustainability; Climate Change; Social and Ecological Justice; Ecological Market System; Freedom and Community; Global Ecological Norms
Since late 2018, a global wave of mobilization under the banners of Fridays For Future (FFF) and Extinction Rebellion (XR) has injected new energy into global climate politics. FFF and XR took the ...world by storm, but have now been forced into (partial) latency as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. We believe this moment presents an opportunity for reflection. In particular, FFF and XR have been depicted as 'new' forms of climate activism. However, we argue that the extent to which these campaigns represent 'new' forms of climate activism is really a matter for closer investigation. In this Profile, we therefore reflect on the distinctiveness of the 'new climate activism' as compared to previous climate campaigns. Reviewing previous studies and our own research, we find that there are both elements of change and continuity in who participates and how, and that the main change appears to be the use of a more politically 'neutral' framing of climate change that is directed more strongly at state than non-state actors.
While political environmentalism played an important role in social mobilization against communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe before 1989, throughout the 1990s and early 2000s ...conservationism appeared to be in decline across the region, and external pressure from European institutions and Western donors influenced environmental policy. What explains the effectiveness of protest since the environmental movement emerged in the 1980s? We trace the emergence and evolution of Polish political environmentalism, looking at three levels of the environmental movement's legitimacy: the level of practices, societal support, and discourse. Each phase identified between 1980s and 2017 saw shifts on different levels of legitimacy, and each ended with a spectacular environmental protest or a decision, bearing implications for the following phase. Since 2010, we see a deep polarization of Polish politics, limiting the effectiveness of environmental protest despite the movement's regained triple legitimacy in large parts of the society.
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