Balancing Personal Needs with Environmental Preservation: Identifying the Values that Guide Decisions in Ecological Dilemmas

Axelrod, Lawrence J.

doi:10.1111/j.1540-4560.1994.tb02421.x

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“…Studies in which the role of moral norms in environmental behaviors has been investigated have consistently found that people endorsing moral values are more inclined to express such values through active behaviors, rather than through inaction (e.g., Black, Stern, & Elworth, 1985;Cialdini, Reno, & Kallgren, 1990;Hopper & Nielsen, 1991;Stern, Dietz, & Kalof, 1993). People with such value orientations are more willing to pursue environmental protection in the face of negative economic or social outcomes (Axelrod, 1994). They may be driven (at least partially) by nonconsequentialist (deontological) principles (their rationale for action is that it is "the right thing to do").…”

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Protected values: No omission bias and no framing effects

Tanner

Medin

2004

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

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Previous studies have suggestedthat people holding protected values (PVs) show a bias against harmful acts, as opposed to harmful omissions (omission bias). In the present study, we (1) investigated the relationship between PVs and acts versus omissions in risky choices, using a paradigm in which act and omission biases were presented in a symmetricalmanner, and (2) examined whether people holding PVs respond differently to framing manipulations. Participants were given environmental scenarios and were asked to make choices between actions and omissions. Both the framing of the outcomes (positive vs. negative) and the outcome certainty (risky vs. certain) were manipulated. In contrast to previous studies, PVs were linked to preferences for acts, rather than for omissions. PVs were more likely to be associated with moral obligations to act than with moral prohibitions against action. Strikingly, people with strong PVs were immune to framing; participants with few PVs showed robust framing effects.

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Protected values: No omission bias and no framing effects

Tanner

Medin

2004

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

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“…What this suggests is that one's environmental value could make him or her go for green building. However, the result of this move could have weak or fair relationship as they could be presumably mediated by some economic, social and environmental variables [24,25,26,27].…”

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“…The relationship could reduce if ecological behaviour instead of ecological behaviour intention is considered [27,21]. Theorists acknowledge that one's environmental values are related to ecological behaviour intention and could be mediated by other environmental behavioural intentions [24,25,29].…”

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Theoretical Explanations of Environmental Motivations and Expectations of Clients on Green Building Demand and Investment

Joachim

Kamarudin

Aliagha

et al. 2015

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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In building industry, green demand and investment creates a positive footprint on the environment. However, these environmental opportunities have not been adequately harnessed and explored by Clients of green building apparently because of poor understanding of the motivating drivers and benefits accruing from green building demand and investment. The decision to demand for or invest in green building is influenced by certain environmental motivating drivers and expectations which have not been fully examined by researchers and not well understood by stakeholders. Based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) and Theory of Value Belief Norm (VBN) explanations, this study focused on the Clients, purchasers and users' motivations and intentions to go for green building. Based on the reviewed theories, we hypothesized that environmental motivations and expectations for green building demand and investment are embedded in the environmental quest for protection of eco-system and bio-diversity, improvement of water and air quality, reduction of solid waste, conservation of natural resources, reduction of societal costs of landfill creation and maintenance, minimization of site impact and reduction emission to air and enhanced energy efficiency. However, the predictive validity of these propositions depends on the client's beliefs, values, social pressure, and perceived behavioural control.Keywords: Green building, Green building demand and investment, Environmental motivations and expectations, Theory of planned behaviour, Theory of value belief norm, Environmental sustainability.

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“…Possible consequences of this would be malnutrition and mental health issues, including the emergence of feelings of unhapiness, exclusion, and marginalization. As seen in many places, the 'weak and unhappy' social sub-system could easily generate governability problems in the long-run (Axelrod 1994;Blount and Pitchon, 2007). On the contrary, tourism has only slightly been recognized as an "indirect" driver (Dirección Parque Nacional Galápagos DPNG 2014) for the effects on Galapagos environment, which disregards the real effect of this industry on the islands sustainability.…”

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Governability assessment of the Galapagos Marine Reserve

Paladines

Chuenpagdee

2015

Maritime Studies

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The Galapagos Marine Reserve is one of the most recognized marine protected areas in the world, due mainly to its unique natural features. Little is known, however, about its social counterpart. This research aims to explore the Galapagos Marine Reserve governance by following the governability assessment framework, which is based on the interactive governance perspective. We claim that improved governance and incresed governability of this marine protected area, ruled under a co-management mode of governance, cannot be achieved without comprehensive understanding about the Galapagos Marine Reserve's governing system, the systems that are being governed, and their interactions. Semi-structured interviews with a range of stakeholders were conducted as part of the study to illuminate the characteristics of the systems and how they interact. The analysis reveals a high degree of variation between the formal and operative structures of the systems, due largely to the complexity, dynamics, and diversity of the systems, and the multiple scales at which they operate. Further, our findings highlight that governing decisions, and thus the overall governance performance, are influenced by certain quality of the systems (e.g., inefficiency, vulnerability, misrepresentation). Along with the understanding of potential complementarity with other governance modes (e.g., hierarchical), the research identifies that the governability of the Galapagos Marine Reserve can be improved by making governance processes more transparent and by better consideration of the social component in the governing system. In that way, the marine reserve sustainability would also be enhanced.

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Balancing Personal Needs with Environmental Preservation: Identifying the Values that Guide Decisions in Ecological Dilemmas

Cited by 131 publications

References 13 publications

Protected values: No omission bias and no framing effects

Protected values: No omission bias and no framing effects

Theoretical Explanations of Environmental Motivations and Expectations of Clients on Green Building Demand and Investment

Governability assessment of the Galapagos Marine Reserve

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