Environmental Preferences and Piaget’s Theory of Knowledge: Searching for Necessity in Environmental Preference in Northern Thailand

Kevin Marsh

Chapter 3 in Towards an Environment Research Agenda, 2004, pp 51-83 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Summary Acknowledging that so many debates within the social sciences have so long been simultaneously characterised by the nature-culture dichotomy in the explanation of behaviour, and the general acceptance that some middle ground represents the way forward in understanding behaviour, this paper asks whether the social sciences have what it takes to take the step into the no man’s land of the middle ground between nature and nurture and explain environmental preferences. A summary of the ‘in nature’ and ‘socially constructed’ sides of the environmental preference debate are reviewed and a possible interactionist model developed based upon the genetic epistemology of Jean Piaget. In doing so the theoretical and methodological issues facing the social sciences in explaining environmental preferences are highlighted in the hope of furthering the research agenda into environmental preferences.

Keywords: Landscape Characteristic; Middle Ground; Culture Dichotomy; Environmental Preference; Universal Principle (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230554429_3

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