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- Andersson, Klas, 1975, et al.
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Learning for the Future? Effects of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) on Teacher Education Students
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Ingår i: Sustainability. - : MDPI AG. - 2071-1050. ; 5:12, s. 5135-5152
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Currently, politicians, university representatives, scholars and leading NGOs share a strong belief in the ability of educational systems to generate positive attitudes to sustainable development (SD) among citizens, with the idea of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) as perhaps the most apparent expression of this conviction. The aim of this paper is to investigate whether ESD might have the intended effects on teacher education students. More specifically, we account for the results from a panel study on the effects of a course on SD held in autumn 2010 at the University of Gothenburg (n = 323) on teacher education students. The surveys consisted of questions about the students’ concerns about various issues, including issues related to SD, and their attitudes towards SD and views of moral obligations to contributing to SD. The study included a control group (n = 97) consisting of students from the teacher-training programme at University West, which had not and did not include ESD. We find positive effects of ESD on almost all attitudes and perceptions, including e.g., personal responsibility in relation to SD and willingness to contribute to SD, while there is no noticeable effect in the control group. We conclude the paper by discussing the implications of our results for the idea of ESD in teacher training programmes at Swedish higher education institutions.
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- Duus-Otterström, Göran, 1978, et al.
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Identifying burdens of coping with climate change: A typology of the duties of climate justice
- 2012
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Ingår i: Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions. - : Elsevier BV. - 0959-3780 .- 1872-9495. ; 22:3, s. 746-753
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- One of the central questions in climate change debates concerns fair burden-sharing, i.e. justice in the distribution of costs of undertaking climate-managing policies. In this paper it is argued that in order to distribute such costs justly, it is necessary to have a nuanced understanding of what types of burdens they represent. Climate managing policies are usually divided into responses that seek to reduce the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere (mitigation) and responses that seek to prevent harm arising from a changing climate (adaptation). Some have argued that there are normatively significant differences between mitigation and adaptation: that the two responses adhere to different logics and evoke different patterns of burden-sharing. This paper argues that the relevant distinction is instead between negative and positive climate duties, i.e. whether an agent has a duty to undertake climate-managing policies on account of the harm its excessive emissions are causing or simply on account of its ability to assist those in need. The paper offers a typology of the different mitigation and adaptation responses that can be sorted under the negative/positive distinctions. This way of conceptualizing the issue not only enables us to better address the burden-sharing question, offering a more nuanced understanding of the types of climate burdens that are ascribable to agents and pointing out the appropriate roles of contributory responsibility and ability. It also clarifies aspects of the climate negotiations, and explains why it matters whether adaptation finance transferred to vulnerable countries is portrayed as compensation for harmful emissions or simply as donor countries discharging their humanitarian duties. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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- Harring, Niklas, 1979, et al.
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Explaining Ups and Downs in the Public’s Environmental Concern in Sweden: The Effects of Ecological Modernization, the Economy, and the Media.
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Ingår i: Organization & Environment. - : SAGE Publications. - 1086-0266 .- 1552-7417. ; , s. 1-16
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article, the authors search for explanations to ups and downs in the Swedish public’s environmental concern since the 1980s. In line with previous research, this study examines the effects of economic cycles and media coverage. In addition, the authors hypothesize that the economy will affect environmental concern less over time because of the entry of ecological modernization into elite discourse. Using time series regression analysis and a unique data set, we study Swedish public opinion during more than 20 years. Economic cycles affect the public’s environmental concern but to a diminishing degree. Public environmental concern is also affected by the amount of media coverage. In accordance with earlier observations, it is concluded that both the economy and media content have an independent effect on public environmental concern. However, the previously observed conflict between economic cycles and public environmental concern is weakened, potentially because of the elite group embracement of an ecological modernization discourse.
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- Jagers, Sverker C., 1967, et al.
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Ecological citizenship: a driver of pro-environmental behaviour?
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Ingår i: Environmental Politics. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0964-4016 .- 1743-8934. ; 23:3, s. 434-453
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In theory, ecological citizenship (EC) has been suggested as a driver of individual pro-environmental behaviour (PEB), providing a more stable foundation for lifestyle changes than reliance on external policy tools. The relevance of EC for explaining PEB is tested by applying data from a Swedish survey designed to capture various aspects of EC. A significant proportion of Swedes fulfil the values-based requirements of ecological citizenship, as outlined in EC-theory. Furthermore, individuals who think along the lines of EC are more likely than others to behave in an environmentally friendly manner in their day-to-day activities. Certain aspects of EC are more important for PEB than others, which implies the need for further theoretical development of EC theory.
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- Jagers, Sverker C., 1967, et al.
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Green behaviour - a matter of citizenship?
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Ingår i: The dynamics of citizenship in the post-political world, Stockholm, May 26-28 2010.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In recent years, an increasing number of scholars have pointed out the active involvement of individuals in pro-environmental activities as an important prerequisite for targeting the sources of environmental degradation. Such involvement can for example consist in a willingness to accept environmental policies or in the adoption of comprehensive individual lifestyle-changes. Within political theory an Ecological Citizenship (EC), reinterpreting the traditional state/individual relationship by straddling the private – public; national – global; and present – future divides, has been suggested a valuable approach to realising a personal responsibility for the environment. As of today, examples of empirical research analysing the prospects for ecological citizenship to actually function as a route towards individual environmental responsibility are still rare. For example, we do not know if any of the major EC-characteristics (i.e., a stronger emphasis on responsibility for private, global and future consequences) actually are correlated with environmental behaviour among citizens. In this paper we distinguish between and compare two sets of individuals, one group guided by traditional (liberal) democratic political citizenship ideals and another group representing the citizenship ideals emphasised in the ecological citizenship-literature. The key question in the paper is weather and to what degree “traditional” citizens with strong green attitudes differs from ecological citizens in regard to environmental behaviour. Is a general green attitudinal orientation enough to bring about behavioural changes? Or does it also take a different conception of citizenship to achieve this? The paper uses survey data based on a mail questionnaire sent out in Spring 2009 to a random sample of the Swedish population. We conclude that ecological citizens are considerably more pro-environmental in their behaviour than others and that there is in fact a negative correlation between traditional (liberal) democratic citizenship ideals and pro-environmental behaviour, which is not the least an interesting finding seen in the light of the considerable number of environmentally oriented theorists arguing that there is a tense relationship between liberal democracy and sustainable development.
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