Navigating Environmental Attitudes Heberlein Thomas A. Professor Emeritus Department of Community and Environmental Sociology University of Wisconsin Madison
Navigating Environmental Attitudes Heberlein Thomas A. Professor Emeritus Department of Community and Environmental Sociology University of Wisconsin Madison The environment, and how humans affect…
Specifikacia Navigating Environmental Attitudes Heberlein Thomas A. Professor Emeritus Department of Community and Environmental Sociology University of Wisconsin Madison
Navigating Environmental Attitudes Heberlein Thomas A. Professor Emeritus Department of Community and Environmental Sociology University of Wisconsin Madison
The environment, and how humans affect it, is more of a concern now than ever. New information, attitudes, and actions, it is conventionally assumed, will necessarily follow one from the other. We are constantly told that halting climate change requires raising awareness, changing attitudes, and finally altering behaviors among the general public-and fast.
Like rocks in a swollen river, attitudes often lie beneath the surface-hard to see, and even harder to move or change. But this approach ignores much of what is known about attitudes in general and environmental attitudes specifically-there is a huge gap between what we say and what we do.Solving environmental problems requires a scientific understanding of public attitudes. In Navigating Environmental Attitudes, Thomas Heberlein helps us read the water and negotiate its hidden obstacles, explaining what attitudes are,