ENV222H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Perceived Control, Planetary Boundaries, Eisenbahnen Und Verkehrsbetriebe Elbe-Weser
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ENV222 Lecture 8 March 13
Environmental Action – Individuals and Communities
CIE, The Green Program, civicaction.ca, carrers for social change march 19th
Tutorial 2 – activity on thesis statement
Readings for next week: Norris and McKinley, Morris and Jung Johann
- Word limit: 70 (or less) on thesis statement
o What readings: Peer reviewed (not journals, newspaper articles)
o Topic:
▪ Just because the question is open pick something you are interested in
▪ Actual topic should be specific, narrow it down, detailed analysis (not
covering bunch of them)
▪ Policy direction vs instrument (carbon tax): can write about specific
instrument (one way of approaching the topic) ; make it more theme-
based (discuss a approah to hage people’s ehaior; address the
sector, (why choose that sector, why is it important, how do you tackle
environmental problem in that sector) targeting a specific sector,
punishment
▪ do research before finalizing thesis
▪ is there evidence that your approach/ instrument works?
- We went over interdisciplinary frameworks for analyzing environmental issues.
Examples were environmental footprints, planetary boundaries
- Purpose of covering the frameworks was to try to bring together different disciplines to
make a holistic analysis
o So many aspects of different issues that have to be analyzed through different
disciplines
o Agles do’t oe together iely; syergies
Environmental Values
o What cause people to behave in certain way, what prevents people from acting
in different way
o Readig: hat preets Caadias fro ehaig …
▪ Different to have values or have to act on those values
o Values = the ultimate worth of actions or things
▪ Things, actions that are worth something to us
o Intrinsic value = value of a life form just because it exists, regardless of
whether it has any usefulness to us
o Instrumental value = value of a life form because of its usefulness to us or to
the biosphere
Environmentally-supportive behavior
o Actions that are taken with the intention of benefiting or reducing negative
human impacts on the natural environment
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▪ Has to do with actions (not values)
o Small-scale ESBs (environmentally supportive behavior)
▪ Reusable grocery bags, consumer choice
▪ Little things that we do every-day, being mindful, consumer choice
(more environmentally friendly)
▪ It is within our existing lifestyles
o Challenging large-scale trends?
▪ Large scale challenges to systematic trends
▪ System in which we live (socio-economic system)
• One type of behaviour would challenge some of the pre-sets of
the system
▪ Need for more political engagement/activism – to make more of a
system change happen
Environmental values- behaviour gap (from the article)
o Pro-environmental values
▪ Those beliefs do not necessarily change into a behaviour
o Environmentally supportive behaviours
What is the EVB gap? (what causes it)
o )ncongruity between individuals’ values for the environment and decisions to
act (actions)
▪ They have environmental goals or values as a priority; but sometimes,
their other priorities tend to outweigh or trump the environmental
priorities
o Other priorities or constraints outweighing pro-environmental choices
Constraints to behaviour (role that they play in our behaviour, potential in changing
people’s behaviour
o Individual
▪ Values, beliefs, Knowledge/ Info, Risk perception (not in the reading)
o Household
▪ HH support (whether or not the people in your house support your
environmental decisions)
▪ Time, Money
o Societal
▪ Perceived control over decision
▪ Community Environmental Services (or lack thereof)
Values (one of the constraints)
o Self-transcendent/ Altruistic
▪ Helping others, spending time with you friends, compassion, valuing
things for their duty
o Self-enhancing/ Egoistic – bettering our own conditions
▪ Personal wealth, privilege, status
o Traditional
▪ Passed down to you through tradition, often referred to as the
conservative set of values that tend to be resistant to change
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Cie, the green program, civicaction. ca, carrers for social change march 19th. Readings for next week: norris and mckinley, morris and jung johann. Word limit: 70 (or less) on thesis statement: what readings: peer reviewed (not journals, newspaper articles, topic: We went over interdisciplinary frameworks for analyzing environmental issues. It is within our existing lifestyles: challenging large-scale trends, large scale challenges to systematic trends, system in which we live (socio-economic system, one type of behaviour would challenge some of the pre-sets of the system. Environmental values- behaviour gap (from the article) system change happen: pro-environmental values, environmentally supportive behaviours. Constraints to behaviour (role that they play in our behaviour, potential in changing act (actions) Individual: household, hh support (whether or not the people in your house support your environmental decisions, time, money, societal, perceived control over decision, community environmental services (or lack thereof) Risk perception: awareness of risk (information) Support from hh members: households are not a homogenous group.
