Will Human Ingenuity Prevent the Earth from Becoming Unlivable? Young Poles? Beliefs about the Natural Environment
Ariadna Ci??ela ()
Additional contact information
Ariadna Ci??ela: The Maria Grzegorzewska University
No 8209654, Proceedings of International Academic Conferences from International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences
Abstract:
The aim of the presentation is to share results of a study concerning the beliefs about the natural environment conducted with the use of New Ecological Paradigm Scale (R. Dunlap et al.), which, according to the authors, is a measure of endorsement of a ?pro-ecological? world view and environmental concern. Items in the questionnaire involve such topics as the reality of growth limits, anti-anthropocentrism, the fragility of nature?s balance, rejection of exemptionalism, and the possibility of an ecological catastrophe. The NEP Scale was previously used in different countries, including USA, Mexico, Germany, Czech Republic, Turkey and Brazil. The presented research is one of few extensive studies using the NEP scale that have been pursued in Poland.The study was conducted at various Warsaw universities and other academic centres across Poland in 2016. The results indicate that most participants believe that humans are seriously abusing the environment and the threat of a serious crisis is real. On the other hand, however, they are optimistic about the natural resources and hope that human ingenuity will prevent the disaster. Most participants show rather biocentric than anthropocentric beliefs, including such opinions as ?plants and animals have as much right as humans to exist,? or ?humans don?t have the right to modify the natural environment to suit their needs.? The study was carried out as a part of a larger project, which aim was to examine the respondents? knowledge about the natural environment, their pro-ecological behaviour, and the correlation of the latter with the beliefs measured by the NEP scale.
Keywords: New Ecological Paradigm Scale; natural environment; environmental attitudes; Poland; young Poles (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 1 page
Date: 2018-07
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-env
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:
Published in Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 39th International Academic Conference, Amsterdam, Jul 2018, pages 53-53
Downloads: (external link)
https://iises.net/proceedings/39th-international-a ... =82&iid=009&rid=9654 First version, 2018
Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.
Export reference: BibTeX
RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan)
HTML/Text
Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sek:iacpro:8209654
Access Statistics for this paper
More papers in Proceedings of International Academic Conferences from International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Klara Cermakova ().