Informing environmental problems through field analysis: Toward a community landscape theory of pro-environmental behavior

Mainzer, Stephen; Luloff, A. E.

doi:10.1080/15575330.2017.1325918

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“…This contradicting narrative is endemic to the Appalachian Mountain Region and is the same conflict between physical and social environments that McHarg and Balint caution planners and designs about. Theoretically, the relationship between a person and their environment should influence their behavior (Ajzen 1991;Lewin 1935), especially in the cases of energy-based behaviors (Mainzer and Luloff 2017), barring perceived barriers. Wilkinson (1991, p. 7) describes one such barrier as the dynamic between physical and moral density.…”

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Deep decarbonization and renewable energy in the Appalachian Mountains (DDREAM): a socio-ecological systems approach to evaluating ecological governance

Mainzer

Cole

Flohr

2019

Socio Ecol Pract Res

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Through the lens of ecologically based planning and design decisions for a renewable energy infrastructure, our project investigates a pilot method that assesses ecological, geographic, and sociopolitical opportunities and constraints. This method couples an application of the University of Pennsylvania Suitability Analysis Method, more commonly known as the McHarg Method, and a statistical analysis of the Appalachian Mountain Region of Pennsylvania in the United States. Despite the region's high-quality natural resources, persistent reliance on coal industries has resulted in disadvantaged socioeconomic distress and risk. By unraveling linkages between socio-ecological systems and governance actions, the results of our pilot described challenges for the Appalachian Mountain Region in transitioning to a renewable energy infrastructure, while also formulating the basis for county-level strategies that may encourage the pro-environmental governance necessary to promote renewable energy initiatives. We find that Appalachian counties' relatively low levels of infrastructure density, solar irradiation, population growth, limited access to education centers, and high-quality forests present challenges to allocating suitable areas for solar infrastructure. However, clusters of moderately suitable areas are identifiable throughout the region. Yet such opportunities may struggle to support solar energy initiatives as the region suffers from limited pro-environmental governance, particularly in areas with low-density infrastructure and historically higher levels of dependence on natural resource industries. Above all, our findings identify that the relationship between socio-ecological conditions and pro-environmental governance is complex and often in conflict in key areas of the region.

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Deep decarbonization and renewable energy in the Appalachian Mountains (DDREAM): a socio-ecological systems approach to evaluating ecological governance

Mainzer

Cole

Flohr

2019

Socio Ecol Pract Res

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“…Thus, this only adds to the The conceptual framework for this study places community finance as central to sustainable finance on an exploratory basis. Community interactional and pragmatism theories largely inform the conceptual framework, with notable appreciation for recent works by Mainzer and Luloff (2017) and Migliorelli (2021) that direct toward a "community landscape theory of pro-environmental behavior" (Mainzer and Luloff, 2017) and "finance for sustainability" (Migliorelli, 2021), respectively. In addition, SDG17 -Partnerships for the Goals is called upon as a reference mechanism for positing the necessary and bonded relatedness of community-level and partnership dynamics.…”

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“…Finally, community finance for sustainability equals sustainable finance for communities. Earlier work by Mainzer & Luloff (2017) conveys landscape as a socially constructed place that comes to exist by way of dynamic perceptions that arise from individuals interacting in social environments, thus highlighting landscape as reflective of normative formations of the involved community and its emergent culture -past, present, and in the future. This offers a beneficial viewpoint for the current study's utilization of landscape as the perspective from which to consider its range of possible impact.…”

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“…Second, there is an unbound time horizon including both past and future outcomes. Third, there exists an ever-presence of social interactions in varied forms, both conscious and unconscious, in community interactional processes (Mainzer & Luloff, 2017;Wilkinson, 1999). The landscape of financial service interactions provides a rich data source for experiential inquiry as financing is something most businesses do as part of normal operations.…”

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“…The meaningfulness of sustainability, community development, sustainable development, and social responsibility is an increasingly important facet of the broader sustainability narrative. Unpacking actor accounts of one aspect of sizable influence upon the daily rhythms of collective life seems to be a very appropriate vantage point from which to explore how individuals and communities are developing salience (or not) for sustainable finance via community finance activities (Balfour & Alter, 2016;Dickinson & Hawley, 1950;Hemingway, 2019;Klassen & Vereecke, 2012;Mainzer & Luloff, 2017;Wilkinson, 1984).…”

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Relationships between small-medium size businesses ('SME') and community banks are complex, meaningful, and often described as characteristically "opaque". This study offers a conceptual framework for exploring this "opaqueness" from the perspective of SMEs and community financiers engaged in the process of community finance. Insights into the experiential dynamics of SMEs and community financiers co-navigating the financial service landscape offers an exploratory frame for investigations of interactive capacity, knowledge formation, and reflexive orientations. The implications of what transpires between SMEs and their community financiers can be far-reaching and of particular importance as the financial service landscape evolves to respond to calls for more 'sustainable finance' to support the goals of Agenda 2030, conveyed as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The study findings suggest that multi-dimensional aspects of community financee not well understood. Future research and practitioner ideation is suggested around the importance of placing community finance, as a facilitative process, within emerging 'sustainable finance' frameworks. Doing so offers an enhanced social-ecological lens for exploring the role, effects, and effectiveness of community finance in the 21st century.

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Collective Identity: Making the Case for a Stage Model Approach to Addressing Water Quality in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed

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The Chesapeake Bay watershed encompasses six states and the District of Columbia. Consequently, the people within it display great diversity in terms of values, allegiances, and experiences. That diversity may help to explain an apparent inability to coordinate actions aimed at redressing the dismal water quality throughout the watershed. In this paper, we bridge theory to an applied scenario to examine the importance of developing a collective identity within the watershed to bring about changes in individual behavior and policies. We present the current conditions of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, propose a stage model for the development of a collective watershed identity, outline theoretically grounded determinants of each stage, and discuss the challenges in developing a collective identity. We further suggest several guiding questions for future research.

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Informing environmental problems through field analysis: Toward a community landscape theory of pro-environmental behavior

Cited by 10 publications

References 38 publications

Deep decarbonization and renewable energy in the Appalachian Mountains (DDREAM): a socio-ecological systems approach to evaluating ecological governance

Deep decarbonization and renewable energy in the Appalachian Mountains (DDREAM): a socio-ecological systems approach to evaluating ecological governance

Small-medium enterprise experiences of financial service in urban and rural settings : a phenomenological study of a changing community finance landscape and the sustainable finance narrative

Collective Identity: Making the Case for a Stage Model Approach to Addressing Water Quality in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed

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