Journal of Social Issues articles from September 2000

Journal of Social Issues archives from September 2000

Promoting Environmentalism.
September 22, 2000... Lynnette C. Zelezny [*] This issue of the Journal of Social Issues focuses on the psychology, sociology, and public policy of global environmental issues. The goals of the issue are (1) to describe the current state of the environment...

Psychological Contributions to Achieving an Ecologically Sustainable Future for Humanity.
September 22, 2000... Stuart Oskamp [*] The most serious long-term threat facing the world is the danger that human actions are producing irreversible, harmful changes to the environmental conditions that support life on Earth. If this problem is not...

Empathizing With Nature: The Effects of Perspective Taking on Concern for Environmental Issues.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2000... P. Wesley Schultz [*] In this article, I propose that concern for environmental problems is fundamentally linked to the degree to which people view themselves as part of the natural environment. Two studies are reported that test aspects...

Toward a Coherent Theory of Environmentally Significant Behavior.
September 22, 2000... This article develops a conceptual framework for advancing theories of environmentally significant individual behavior and reports on the attempts of the author's research group and others to develop such a theory. It discusses definitions of...

Measuring Endorsement of the New Ecological Paradigm: A Revised NEP Scale.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2000... Riley E. Dunlap [*] Dunlap and Van Liere 's New Environmental Paradigm (NEP) Scale, published in 1978, has become a widely used measure of proenvironmental orientation. This article develops a revised NEP Scale designed to improve upon...

Elaborating on Gender Differences in Environmentalism.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2000... Lynnette C. Zelezny [*] A review of recent research (1988 to 1998) on gender differences in environmental attitudes and behaviors found that, contrary to past inconsistencies, a clearer picture has emerged: Women report stronger...

Models of Justice in the Environmental Debate.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2000... Susan Clayton [*] Justice has become important in public and private consideration of the environment, but a number of different ways of operationalizing justice can be seen. Previous literature suggests that principles stressing...

Denial and the Process of Moral Exclusion in Environmental Conflict.
September 22, 2000... Susan Opotow [*] Environmental issues present an urgent challenge throughout the world. Air, water, and land pollution continue at alarming rates and increasingly strain the Earth's capacity to sustain healthy ecosystems and human life....

Human Nature and Environmentally Responsible Behavior.
September 22, 2000... Stephen Kaplan [*] This article constitutes a search for a people-oriented approach to encouraging environmentally responsible behavior. It attempts to provide a source of motivations, reduce the corrosive sense of helplessness, and...

Expanding and Evaluating Motives for Environmentally Responsible Behavior.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2000... Raymond De Young [*] This article contends that while striving to promote environmentally responsible behavior, we have focused attention too narrowly on just two classes of motives. There is a need to expand the range of motives...

The Application of Persuasion Theory to the Development Of Effective Proenvironmental Public Service Announcements.
September 22, 2000... Renee J. Bator [*] The goal of this article is to provide specific guidelines to help create effective proenvironmental public service announcements (PSAs). Campaign designers are encouraged to initially identify and investigate the...

Promoting Sustainable Behavior: An Introduction to Community-Based Social Marketing.
September 22, 2000... Doug McKenzie-Mohr [*] Most programs to foster sustainable behavior continue to be based upon models of behavior change that psychological research has found to be limited. Although psychology has much to contribute to the design of...

Environmental Justice: Grassroots Activism and Its Impact on Public Policy Decision Making.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2000... Robert D. Bullard [*] A growing body of evidence reveals that people of color and low-income persons have borne greater environmental and health risks than the society at large in their neighborhoods, workplace, and playgrounds. Over the...