Attitudes and Environmental Citizenship

Abstract

Cotoara-Zamfir 7.1 Discourses on Environmental Citizenship Environmental Citizenship (EC) is usually defined as a citizenship driven by green ideas which result in environmentally friendly actions (see, e.g. Dobson and Bell 2006:23-24). Green political theory sees Environmental Citizenship as an important element in transition to sustainability (Barry 2002). In this context, an expanded view on citizenship is needed to achieve positive outcomes for the environment by way of personal lifestyle changes and/or citizen participation in environmental decision-making (Schild 2016), and some researchers see environmental education (EE) as a way to cultivate Environmental Citizenship. The personal duty approach or lifestyle approach argues that each individual has the responsibility to take actions that protect the environment while also claiming rights to environmental goods (Schild 2016). Another approach claims that both individual and collective actions are needed to achieve Environmental Citizenship

Environmental citizenship behavior and sustainability apps: an empirical investigation

“…Environmental citizenship requires some important prerequisites such as skills, duties, rights, awareness and responsibility to both motivate and enable environmentally conscious actions. Government intervention, such as policies, laws, environmental public communications and involvement of citizens, as well as environmental education, traditional media, environmental content shared on social media and advertising campaigns can play an important part in promoting environmental citizenship behavior (Bauer et al , 2020; de Vries, 2020; Georgiou et al , 2021). Unfortunately, although most people are aware of phenomena related to continued unsustainable human activities, such as climate change, loss of biodiversity, ice melt, plastic pollution and ocean pollution, only few of them are willing to embrace the global community goal of “saving the planet” (de Guttry et al , 2019; Huang, 2016; Moussaoui and Desrichard, 2016; Wang et al , 2018).…”

The role of online social networks in university students’ environmentally responsible behavior

“…Additionally, it entails resolving and developing strategies for problems, conceptualizing the ecosystem and natural resources and devising ways to protect them (Salas-Zapata et al , 2018). The attitude is based on people’s proclivity for and regard for environmental conservation and protection and their desire to participate in environmental programs and activities (Bauer et al , 2020).…”

Earth system governance and science diplomacy: commonalities of emerging shapers of institutions

“…Recent studies of local environmental considerations show that cities are context-rich intellectual ecosystems (Daneri et al, 2021) where grand narratives on alternatives to the growth paradigm (Görg et al, 2020, p. 53) are articulated in detailed and practical terms. Consumer and company-level observations linked to various sustainability paths, conceptualisation and empirical analysis of individual attitudes towards nature (Balundė et al, 2020;Bauer et al, 2020;Boeve-de Pauw & Halbac-Zamfir, 2020;Činčera et al, 2020;Gericke et al, 2020;Goldman et al, 2020;Kaputa et al, 2020;Paraskeva-Hadjichambi et al, 2020;Parra et al, 2020;Reis, 2020;Smederevac-Lalic et al, 2020;Šulc et al, 2020;Vesely et al, 2021), suggestions for a social behaviour transformation from efficiency to sufficiency (Biermann, 2014, p. 205), as well as local, regional, national and federal requirements for energy transitions (Breetz et al, 2018;Bugge et al, 2021;Mäkitie et al, 2020) and local infrastructure planning (Stokes, 2016) are some examples. There is a notable potential of learning opportunities from these and other streams of scholarly enquiry.…”