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Promoting Environmentalism

Lynette C. Zelezny (Edited by), LC Zelezny (Author), P. Wesley Schultz (Edited by), Phillis A. Katz (Edited by)

9781405100823, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 11 January 2000

224 pages
22.8 x 15.4 x 1.2 cm, 0.312 kg

This book focuses on the psychology, sociology, and public policy of global environmental issues. The goals of the book are:

  • to describe the current state of the environment and environmentalism
  • to present new theories and research on environmental attitudes and behaviors
  • to explore obstacles and ethical considerations in promoting pro-environmental action

Part I: Psychology of Promoting Environmentalism: Promoting Environmentalism

1. Promoting Environmentalism
Lynnette C. Zelezny, California State University, Fresno; P. Wesley Schultz, California State University, San Marcos

2. Psychology of Promoting Environmentalism: Psychological Contributions to Achieving an Ecologically Sustainable Future for Humanity
Stuart Oskamp, Claremont Graduate University

Part II: New Environmental Theories

1. Empathizing With Nature: The Effects ofPerspective Taking on Concern for Environmental Issues
P. Wesley Schultz, California State University, San Marcos

2.Toward a Coherent Theory of Environmentally Significant Behavior
Paul C. Stern, National Research Council

Part III: New Trends in Measuring Environmental Attitudes

1.Measuring Endorsement of the New Ecological Paradigm: A Revised NEP Scale
Riley E. Dunlap, Michigan State University; Kent D. Van Liere, Primen; Angela G. Mertig, Michigan State University; Robert Emmet Jones, University of Tennessee

Part IV: New Ways of Thinking about Environmentalism

1. Elaborating on Gender Differences in Environmentalism
Lynnette C. Zelezny, California State University, Fresno; Poh-Pheng Chua, Pennsylvania State University; Christina Aldrich, Claremont Graduate University

2. Models of Justice in the Environmental Debate
Susan Clayton, The College of Wooster

3. Denial and the Process of Moral Exclusion in Environmental Conflict
Susan Opotow, University of Massachusetts-Boston; Leah Weiss, Annapolis, MD

Part V: New Ways to Promote Proenvironmental Behavior

1. Human Nature and Environmentally Responsible Behavior
Stephen Kaplan, University of Michigan

2. Expanding and Evaluating Motives for Environmentally Responsible Behavior
Raymond De Young, University of Michigan

3. The Application of Persuasion Theory to the Development Of Effective Proenvironmental Public Service Announcements
Renee J. Bator, State University of New York, Plattsburgh; Robert B. Cialdini, Arizona State University

4. Promoting Sustainable Behavior: An Introduction to Community-Based Social Marketing
Doug McKenzie-Mohr, St. Thomas University

Part VI: Environmentalism and Public Policy

1. Environmental Justice: Grassroots Activism and Its Impact on Public Policy Decision Making
Robert D. Bullard and Glenn S. Johnson, Clark Atlanta University

Subject Areas: Psychology [JM]
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