Gender, Scientific Knowledge, and Attitudes toward the Environment: A Cross-National Analysis

Hayes, Bernadette C.

doi:10.2307/449275

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“…Gender is, for example, significant in five of the analyses, and as seen earlier, women show a higher level of environmental concern than men in these cases (cp. Hayes, 2001), with the exception of financial sacrifices, which on the other hand might support Van Liere and Dunlap's hypothesis from 1980.…”

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“…3 Hayes (2001), using ISSP data about environmental concern from 1993, shows that gender does not explain environmental concern and she confirms the conclusion from earlier studies that there are no clear-cut relationships between gender and environmental attitudes. However, even though there are few significant results regarding the impact of gender in the cross-national analysis, the results for two of the studied countries, the USA and Norway (Sweden was not part of this fielding), indicate that in some countries gender might influence attitudes (women are 5 particular behaviour (Engel & Pötschke, 1998).…”

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General Beliefs and Environmental Concern

Olofsson

Öhman

2006

Environment and Behavior

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The aim of the study was to empirically test whether grouping people according to their general beliefs, combined with positional factors, can explain environmental concern, and whether there are country differences in this respect. The study is based on the United States, Canadian, Norwegian, and Swedish parts of The International Social Survey Program (ISSP) survey 2000 on environmental concern. The four countries were paired resulting in a comparison between North America and Scandinavia. The results showed that general beliefs, together with education and political affiliation, were the most stable predictors of environmental concern, and that adding general beliefs to the analysis improves the explanatory power in a significant way.

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General Beliefs and Environmental Concern

Olofsson

Öhman

2006

Environment and Behavior

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“…The control variables we use here are selected from the VOLCROWE survey in accordance with numerous empirical studies across a range of, mostly, but not exclusively Anglo-American populations, which have revealed factors which correlate with science knowledge [Day and Devlin, 1998;Hayes and Tariq, 2000;Bak, 2001;Sherkat, 2011;Hayes, 2001;von Roten, 2004;Sturgis and Allum, 2004;Gauchat, 2011]. These control variables are gender, age, ethnicity, community type (specifically rural or urban), educational level (as measured by ISCED categories) and if the highest qualification is in science and extent to which respondent agrees that religion is important in their life (on a Likert scale).…”

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Science learning via participation in online citizen science

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Cox³

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We investigate the development of scientific content knowledge of volunteers participating in online citizen science projects in the Zooniverse (http://www.zooniverse.org). We use econometric methods to test how measures of project participation relate to success in a science quiz, controlling for factors known to correlate with scientific knowledge. Citizen scientists believe they are learning about both the content and processes of science through their participation. We don't directly test the latter, but we find evidence to support the former — that more actively engaged participants perform better in a project-specific science knowledge quiz, even after controlling for their general science knowledge. We interpret this as evidence of learning of science content inspired by participation in online citizen science.

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“…We have been able to locate only one study in which the authors found no gender differences in relation to environmental issues. In a study drawing on nationally representative survey data from Great Britain, Norway, The Netherlands, Germany, Japan, and the United States, Hayes (2001) [40] pointed out to the little or non-existent gender differences in attitudes towards the environment notwithstanding the major levels of scientific knowledge held by men. We found, however, several works in which the authors provide a more nuanced picture of these relations.…”

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Home Garden Ecosystem Services Valuation through a Gender Lens: A Case Study in the Catalan Pyrenees

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Ecosystem services have become a critical issue in the environmental literature, however knowledge on whether women and men similarly value ecosystem services is still nascent. We aim at advancing the understanding of the relation between gender and environmental perceptions through the analysis of values assigned by women and men to ecosystem services supplied by home gardens in Vall Fosca (Catalan Pyrenees, north-eastern Spain). We found that women give a higher value than men to all ecosystem services. Overall, women's valuation of the full range of ecosystem services provided by home gardens was 7.55% higher than men's valuation. Gender socialization influences the way people interact with and value the environment, including highly managed environments such as home gardens. We argue that considering gendered differences in ecosystem services valuation may lead to policies more effective in enhancing ecosystem services provision.

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Gender, Scientific Knowledge, and Attitudes toward the Environment: A Cross-National Analysis

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General Beliefs and Environmental Concern

General Beliefs and Environmental Concern

Science learning via participation in online citizen science

Home Garden Ecosystem Services Valuation through a Gender Lens: A Case Study in the Catalan Pyrenees

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